reference quality headphones
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:26 pm
fyi to all ya'all who want/need sweet and accurate sounding headphones for either monitoring or pleasure. I spent the last year buying thousands of dollars of headphone gear. i.e. 15 diff phones from several manufacturers, several amps, dac's. At the end of this search, I stumbled on this new aftermarket driver called a symphone magnum. The set of drivers are $120 and are direct replacement for any grado. Most grado's use plastic cups (air chambers) and I'd recommend getting a set of wood made (email I can help if needed) or use the aluminum symphones sells. You can basically buy a cheap set of grado sr60's-sr225's, the drivers and wood cups. Assemble them and you have a $2000 sounding set of phones for $400. And the best part is they do not need an amplifier to sound great, which alot of other high end phones do need due to their poor design and high impedance
I made my own limba airchambers (cups) and wired myself a cable from mogami 4 conductor mic cable.
they also need a healthy 'burn in' just like new guitar speakers. And I'd recommend the same procedure we use for that. put thin lizzy's jailbreak on repeat, put the headphones in a drawer and let the drivers flex their way to greatness. takes 2-300 hours.
symphones drivers/parts
http://www.symphones.ca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
ear pads.
http://www.amazon.com/Grado-L-Cush-Larg ... B0006GCCO0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I made my own limba airchambers (cups) and wired myself a cable from mogami 4 conductor mic cable.
they also need a healthy 'burn in' just like new guitar speakers. And I'd recommend the same procedure we use for that. put thin lizzy's jailbreak on repeat, put the headphones in a drawer and let the drivers flex their way to greatness. takes 2-300 hours.
symphones drivers/parts
http://www.symphones.ca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
ear pads.
http://www.amazon.com/Grado-L-Cush-Larg ... B0006GCCO0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;