onedown wrote:hey racio,
looks like you're really enjoying the joys of headfi. three amps [you still have your consonance, right?], plus five phones [or even more?]. what more can i say?
Yeah, my once dormant passion for audio seems to be burning intensely again. Reason why I got new cans is that the ageing pads on my AT AD300 went kaput on me, the foam/velvet pads have crumbled somehow, and on top of that, the rechargeable batteries on my Senn wireless are whacked as well. So I got a pair of Senn PX100 about a month ago just to tie me over 'till I find the cans I'd end up with. And now they've become mainstays on my son's iPod, he loves 'em like crazy. hehe
Well, I've been actually itching to dig up them Consonance Cyber 30 SET amp from retirement, and I might just do it this weekend (I've to ravage thru all my stuff in our stockroom, that'd give the missus a headache for sure. hehe).
There's a plethora of Grado/Alessandro mods in head-fi.org, but so far, I've only tried the scotch tape-around the foam pads mod and I was quite surprised that it actually works! I don't think I've earned my Grado stripes yet to do them major modifcations, so I'm sticking with pad mods for now.
By the way, talking about mods, got to mention that to reduce my Millett’s inherent sensitivity to tube microphonics (it's a bit sensitive to tapping), I wrapped its chassis with double sided foam mounting tapes (the black 3M versions) and covered the whole thing with soft black leatherette and stuck 3 clear 3M bump-ons beneath. Not only that it's now isolated from vibrations, ang pogi pa! hehe. On the Mini3 I wrapped its chassis with wood-look film just for aesthetics, pero naku, ang pogi rin!
onedown wrote:try to get some sleep though, pal.
Sleep?.... what is "sleep"? Is it some sort of a hypothetical conjecture, conspiracy theory or an urban legend, please elucidate?
iceman90a wrote:back with a vengeance
Hey Ice, I sure am glad to be back man (though slowly, I think I'm getting there).
dogears wrote:Madness???!!! I can't get that STAX out of my mind?! Madness???!!!
tsk tsk tsk... Wag na muna yang Stax Stax pre... di pa nga tayo retired eh. hehehe