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Re: Why do headphones lack damping?
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2013, 05:51:45 AM »

Did you send them purrin?  We can measure w/ the mod and then remove it offering objective and subjective comparisons.
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Re: Why do headphones lack damping?
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2013, 08:24:44 AM »

Send what, RE-400? They're quite dead right now. The driver's hair wires don't like standard soldering - tend to unsolder when the cable is changed.
Need to work really low temperature with these, just on the eutectic point of that Pb-free solder.
Of course, I might get another pair, but for now, getting more gear and RE-600 are on the shortlist.

Or maybe send the modded Beyer T70p. Since we know that headphone is so-so and I know exactly why. (See topic; plus the driver itself is overdampened mechanically, but that I can't really change.)
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Re: Why do headphones lack damping?
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2013, 08:32:54 AM »

Not u, Rex, lol.  Back to using quotes, hehe.
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Re: Why do headphones lack damping?
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2013, 08:39:39 AM »

Oh, you mean HD800. The properly done mod from what I can see drops ~ 3-6 dB of treble. I think we have the measurements here already.
The problem is of course that the inter-headphone variance is on par with what the mod does. And the mod doesn't bring the mids more forward at all.
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Re: Why do headphones lack damping?
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2013, 02:18:43 AM »

Have you guys tried some polyester fiber? I know it sounds simple and ghetto but that alone will probably take the edge off the HD800' s no problem maybe. Like cut a circular piece or something. It should slow down the upper end enough where it's tamed and not too dark. Also I don't know if it fit but I loved using the akg 240 foam discs for modding front driver reasons.
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