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More DIY Orthos, and Two AKG K 340

More modified headphones came through the lab this week. scompton sent in three modified Fostex Orthodynamic cans, and Morphsci sent in a couple of Headphile.com modified AKG K340 headphones. Quick...

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FrankenTex: A DIY Monster!

It's not often a pair of DIY cans comes walking in the door with its own monster branding. Not only has enthusiast 4nradio breathed life into this odd assortment of bits from previously dead or...

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DIY Modified Aiwa HP-500 from Kabeer

Kabeer - "I am located in UK, and I have some orthos. Im not sure if its very viable for me to get anything measured?" Tyll - "I really can't spend too much money on this, so I've limited DIY Ortho...

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Three Modified Grados

Some modified Grado cans have shown up in the lab. I don't know what my problem was getting to them in a timely manner, maybe it's my dislike in general for Grado cans, maybe it was the trouble I was...

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3M Dual Lock and Attaching Your Player to a Portable Headphone Amp

How do you attach your portable headphone amp to your player? Velcro? Big rubber bands? A hacked small camera bag? Here's another solution ... and it's miraculous.

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DIY Modification for the Sennheiser HD 800: "The Anaxilus Mod"

In my view, the Sennheiser HD 800 is the world's best dynamic headphone. Its imaging and transient response is second to none. (Read my full review here.) The problem is, brutal honesty can be tough...

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Grado DIY Project by Starving Student Audiophile Gives New Meaning to Music

A couple of weeks ago Head-Fi DIYer Kojaku sent in a pair of heavily modded Grado SR225i headphones. I'm not really a fan of Grados ... okay, I really dislike them, but these modded cans were very...

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DIY Headphone Measurement Contest Winners!

Having printed out the measurements for all 41 Do-It-Yourself modified headphones sent to me over the past year, I spread them out over my kitchen table and set to work picking the best and worst...

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The Marvelously Addictive Bottlehead Crack

One of the very first things I did when I started InnerFidelity was call Doc B. (Dan Schmalle) at Bottlehead to get a little Crack. No, not the white stuff...the dandy little OTL headphone amp DIY...

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A DIYers Delight: The Fostex T50RP Mk3

The most modified headphone in the hobby, now modified by its maker. A terrific job, and done in a way virtually impossible for DIYers to achieve, but continues to allow similar modifications as the...

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Reducing Headphone Treble Response with Paper Filters in Front of the Driver

I was measuring some DIY headphones this weekend and got sucked into playing with filter paper in front of the driver. Thought all you DIYers out there would get a kick out of the data.

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Sennheiser HD 800 S: Tweaked and Delightful...and a French DIY Response

They say it's all about the stories. Well here's another chapter for a venerable and storied headphone.

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The SolderBuddy is a DIYers Delight!

Maybe it's just my old school mindset, but I find being able to get "under the hood" to tinker around with some gizmo or other to be a perfectly satisfying pursuit. I like old motorcycles because they...

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Dimensions for Elear DIY Cable Builders

Well...that escalated quickly. Anticipating incoming Focal Elears, DIYers are already starting to ask about dimensions for cable swaps. Might as well do it while I've got them here.

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SAATI Filters: Can They Replace Toilet Paper for Headphone Modifiers?

For better or worse, Tyll tasked me with answering perhaps one of the most important questions of this age. Can SAATI Acoustex filters be used in place of toilet paper, a staple product used for front...

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