Headphone enthusiast thread! - Page 242

On May 26 2015 18:59 xM(Z wrote:
i am assuming here that you tested the headset on/with a different audio signal(straight from PC or something) and you had the same problem.

- plug them normally, turn on the music, put them on. take turns in bending the cable near the jacks: first the one you plug into your amp then the one plugged into your headset. if you start hearing music(intermittently) on the right headphone, change your cable/check the sockets.
- if you have an ohmmeter just measure them, their resistance: first the cable/wiring then the headphone.
- if you don't have one, you can use a wire and a 1.5Volt battery to check the wire continuity.
the tip of the 3.5mm jack is always wired to the Left channel, the middle is always wired to the Right channel and the thing/part with the fillet(?) is the ground(the common wire for both channels). link one battery terminal(?) (the polarity doesn't matter) to the ground and with the other, gently tap the tip and the middle of the jack. with the headset on, if everything is fine, you should hear clicks alternating between L and R sides.
if the right side gives you nothing, go up the wire until you hit the headphone (have the battery terminals right where the original wires are soldered on).
DO NOT keep the battery wired to the headphone for longer than a few sec. in theory there is no problem in doing that (since an amp can hit a headset with +- 10volts (20Vpp)) but it's better to be safe than sorry.

On May 26 2015 22:19 xM(Z wrote:
nope,
the idea is to end up with the battery terminals connected here + Show Spoiler + while checking the wiring in the process.
by up the wire i meant - starting from the jack you plug into the amp, go to the next place where you have exposed wires. don't ruin the cable.
there's a place inside the left headphone and another one as shown in that picture of yours, inside the right one.
the measurement points are: the amp jack, inside L then inside R headphone. (why also inside L? - the wire going across your headset from L to R could be broken).
you can just jump straight to R headphone, put the battery terminals where the arrows are pointing and listen to the clicks.

On May 26 2015 22:50 xM(Z wrote:
you should end up with something like + Show Spoiler +. one wire connecting the battery and a pad and the other(or the tip of the battery) just tap the other pad of the headphone.

well if the wiring is bad you can change it but if the wires leading to the coil of your headphone are busted there's nothing you can do.
in your picture, from those 2 most inside pads you'll have 2 really thin wires going to the moving-coil of the headphone(roughly, the other side of your headphone + Show Spoiler +) . those can break too and you cant replace them.

On June 05 2015 10:51 ZeromuS wrote:
I know its nothing fancy but i got myself a creative E1 portable headphone amp.

First one, so chose entry level and damn, i feel like i've been really missing out on the headphone amp world. Thankfully my stuff is easy to run so I don't need anything too powerful ... for now

Maybe for christmas I'll treat myself to a nice midrange desktop amp/dac



If you haven't called Shure I would say you are crazy. They have really really good customer care in my experience. I only buy shure stuff because of it.

On June 14 2015 01:26 bluzi wrote:
BEYERDYNAMIC 880 are very comfy for office , i can wear them for hours and not feel them.

On June 14 2015 00:21 ticklishmusic wrote:
Are Sennheiser 598's usable in an office even though they are open?

Looking for a pair of headphones I can use in the office between $100-$250. Might end up shelling out a little extra for the Bose ones if I can't find anything else.

On June 14 2015 02:06 xM(Z wrote:

i assumed he wants to insulate himself from the office sounds (focals can can shave up to ~20db, which is huge. you put them on and the world goes silent ).
your headset pick is semi-opened and has 250ohm which means you'd probably need an amp too.

On June 14 2015 01:17 xM(Z wrote:
it depends on the office ...
598's dump by about 10%(at most) the outside noise.
at around the same price but closed and with damn good insulation i'd recommend the Focal Spirit One (or something from focal)

On June 14 2015 01:26 bluzi wrote:
BEYERDYNAMIC 880 are very comfy for office , i can wear them for hours and not feel them.

On June 14 2015 01:55 Cambium wrote:
looking for a pair of in-ear headphones, a lot of the review sites recommend bose freestyle.

I'm not really looking for anything particular, just something that's comfortable, and that's about it.

On June 14 2015 03:05 ticklishmusic wrote:


So by 10% you mean they'd be pretty usable in a quiet-ish office?

On June 14 2015 02:06 xM(Z wrote:

i assumed he wants to insulate himself from the office sounds (focals can can shave up to ~20db, which is huge. you put them on and the world goes silent ).
your headset pick is semi-opened and has 250ohm which means you'd probably need an amp too.