Kaynin Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Wha? One for every hour of the day...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 I have three good pairs and thought that too many. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equaliser Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 When I was deep in the game few years ago I had almost 40+ headphones and over a dozen of then flagships modern and vintage. I've cut down that number to less then half now as I've gone back to speakers and building or modding amps, dacs and transports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telecine Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 It is just possible that you might still have too many pairs. I can help with your addiction, you know the drill ; ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 I'm mainly a speaker man but when the wife is home and I need a listen I pull out the HPs. My Sennheiser 700 probably my top model but I more often listen to the Beyerdynamic DT 770 with the closed back. That way when the wife's a-rattl'n the pots and pans I hear little of it. Because my use is minimal I can't justify more expensive phones though I would like a pair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equaliser Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Yeah true I've been considering giving away most my headphones and keeping the few I need. I've already given away few Stax Lambda's I've owned and TLC'd but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkaramazov Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Recently picked up this lovely Darkvoice 336SE from an SNA member. They seem to work an absolute treat with my Rotel RH-930 (a relatively scarce vintage "back electret" headphone - for vintage electret heaphone spotters, this is an OEM version of the Toshiba HR 810). 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Hall Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 ^ tell us a bit more about the Rotel cans. They look pretty cool and in good nick. What vintage? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Very nice setup. The amp and cans look tops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkaramazov Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) ^ tell us a bit more about the Rotel cans. They look pretty cool and in good nick. What vintage? The Rotels are probably late 1970s / early 1980s. I quite like old electret headphones when they show up - they are currently available at bargain prices. Electrets were electrostatics for the masses in the 60s-80s - they were not, as I understand exactly "cheap", but they were substantially less costly than a set of electrostatic headphones. An electrostatic requires charge to a very thin diaphragm; the electret designs, on the other hand, were "pre charged" but required a thicker diaphragm, thus losing some of the qualities that make an electrostatic design appealing. The Toshiba "back electrets" attempted to get around some of the technical limitations of the electret design, resulting in a better sound (some say closer to the sound of electrostatics, although I can't confirm this). You can find some basic information on the electret and back electret headphones here: http://wiki.faust3d.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electret_Driver_Principle. This Rotel is basically a rebadged Toshiba HR 810. The 1/4" plug housing contains matching transformers to suit 8 Ohm, 300 ohm and 1k ohm impedance, which is useful for matching with different amplifiers (and interesting in context with the Darkvoice, which is a output transformerless design). They really sound quite magic - warm, fast, exquisite treble detail. Very nice setup. The amp and cans look tops. Thank you! Edited January 31, 2015 by mkaramazov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplifiedLife Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 yep - I reckon they look definitely ahead of their age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplifiedLife Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 When I was deep in the game few years ago I had almost 40+ headphones and over a dozen of then flagships modern and vintage. I've cut down that number to less then half now as I've gone back to speakers and building or modding amps, dacs and transports. And how many headphone amplifiers? Could you have a party with everyone wearing headphones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equaliser Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Modded Darkvoice 336se Greg Szekeres mosfet head amp (pieces) Modded Little Dot MK VI+ (in pieces) Modded Xiang Sheng 708B (real sleeper with HD600/650/800 headphones B22 passive and balanced Stax SRD 7sb mk2 (connects to integrated) I'll list the rest and some pics when I'm on my desktop, typing on mobile is tiring.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meraias Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 my little tower rig... used to have a Dark Star but not anymore, kinda missed it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equaliser Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I dig the rack, custom made or ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hochopeper Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 My headphone system: DAC soon to be replaced with two DIY DACs. The headphone amp is DIY The Wire BAL-BAL, the box at the bottom is just a few different linear power supplies (some on my own PCBs others on The Wire PSU PCBs) for both my headphone amp and some other measurement tools (ADC, 1kHz low THD osc etc) that I'm making for measuring/tweaking DIY projects. DIY Canare interconnects going from single ended to balanced input on the headphone amp while I'm using this SE output DAC. I've used both headphones through both The Wire and the O2 headphone amp in this system. The biggest difference there is that The Wire has a balanced output. Chris 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meraias Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) I dig the rack, custom made or ? Nope not custom made, it is sold in separate pieces, the acrylic base and different length of stainless steel silos which you can customize. FYI to all, I will be very impressed for those who can detect all 4 without me telling you that there are actually all together 4 'amplifiers' in the picture. :lol: see if you can find it... Edited February 11, 2015 by meraias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meraias Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 @@hochopeper wow, is that a balanced reterminated AD900? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hochopeper Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 @@hochopeper wow, is that a balanced reterminated AD900? Yeah they were recabled by a friend who is happier fidling with small wires than I am (I would rather do surface mount soldering than recable headphones) The AD900 are normally single entry so I've got a 4pin XLR and an adapter from 4pin to 3.5mm mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meraias Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) is it markedly better? (as in SQ) Edited February 11, 2015 by meraias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hochopeper Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) is it markedly better? (as in SQ) I'm the wrong guy to ask for subjective impressions hey ... too much (amps and other parts of the sestup aren't the same) changes to really attribute the difference to the wiring type. I believe that the balanced connection is the 'right' way to do things so when I can that's how I'd prefer them to be. The 'The Wire BAL-BAL' amp can be wired for either SE or BAL output so I could in theory build a switch box to switch between those two modes and then trial it on both AD900 and the HD600, but ... motivation for me to build that is pretty low, got other things to build/listen to! Edited February 11, 2015 by hochopeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steever Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) When I'm home, I never use headphones. When I'm traveling and working at work, I use this; Just an iPhone 5 with Spigen hybrid bumper and GlasTr screen protector and Dita The Answer dynamic driver IEMs (w Furutech plug mod to fit through a range of phone bumpers). Music is simply sync'd from my iTunes collection (a mix of iTunes Store and cd ripped files stored as Apple lossless). The quality is surprisingly good, aided to a large degree by the stunning Dita phones. Tip for iPhone users; turn off all your background apps when listening, ESPECIALLY facebook . Makes a big difference to the sound you get (putting your phone in airplane mode also helps). I ran some B&W P7s from the phone but sold them as the Ditas are as good or better in many respects. Seriously. Edited February 20, 2015 by Winno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
productred Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 my current setup 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaynin Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Nice, what's running them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
productred Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 ^MS BL-91 --> Vincent PHO-8 --> Oppo HA-1 --> LCDX (XLR) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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