Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
- Sheepskin Oval
- Sheepskin Oval Angled
- Micro Suede Oval
- Micro Suede Oval XL
Are there any other pads that change these parameters? Also, you mentioned in your previous comments that you modded your B8. What did you do?- Remove the pads.
- Using a small Philips screwdriver, take out 4 screws.
- Pull the driver housing away from the wooden cup. (Be careful not to break the attached wires.)
- With a pencil and paper, create a template of the large flat area of the interior of the cup.
- With scissors (and your fingers), fashion a precisely-fit piece of firm sound/packing foam (roughly 2" by 2.5") to cover the surface of the interior of the wood cup... but not the upper 'deck' where the screws attach. (Since the driver is angled, so you will need to create a 1" by 0.5" hole so that the further-out edge of the driver does not have foam behind it. Also leave a little space directly next to the driver's vent hole.)
- Secure the foam well with many small (cut) pieces of electrical tape. (For maximum wood coverage, you can also cover the upper deck with tape.)
- Re-attach the driver.
This mod resulted in noticeably tighter sound, especially the bass, since the sound cannot resonate as much within the cup. To go the extra mile (for sound!), the plastic grate covering each driver can be cut off. Doing so requires sharp scissors. To cut each outer frame piece (individually), slightly open the scissors and firmly pinch the tip until the plastic is cut. Pull up after each frame cut, as the magnet within the driver will draw titanium or steel scissors to it. Be extremely careful not to touch (or cut) the driver diaphragm. If you do not have steady hands... or don't want to risk catastrophic damage to the headphones (during the procedure or after), do not attempt this step! I'll post an image of the foam I used. Let me know if you have any questions.What is your definition of "low-end mid-fi level" or "low end items"?
Where has your audio journey has led you? I find it ironic that you speak of 'helping' when I offered you my assistance in the THX thread... and you seemed put out or offended after I asked if you could please 'like' my helpful responses. I suspect you deleted your original comment, which removed all of the responses, including mine which totaled a few hundred words. Is that true? If you didn't delete that thread, then at the very least, you avoided answering - for over a month - my question as to why that thread had been removed... after you responded multiple times to my last message. (And you still haven't addressed this matter.) Care to enlighten me... this time, in a thread you can't delete?