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Massdrop x Fostex TR-X00 Purpleheart Headphones

Mar 25, 2016

Purple heart is a rather difficult wood to work with, especially since it's 20% more dense than red oak. I really can't wait to hear the differences.

Mar 25, 2016

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Jas260

Mar 25, 2016

Meringowhat ur mean by difficult? to manufacture?

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Meringo

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Mar 25, 2016

Jas260I do a lot of DIY projects with wood. Purple Heart is beautiful, and exotic, but also incredibly easy to mess up. Purple Heart is known to splinter when routing, chip when planing (reducing thickness), or burn when sawing. I trust Fostex, though.

Mar 25, 2016

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Buckbrick

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Mar 25, 2016

MeringoI believe these cups are sealed. How would they hold up in usage?

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Jas260

Mar 25, 2016

MeringoG, I hope they are endurable... wont mess up during normal use..

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madwolfa

Mar 25, 2016

BuckbrickThey would eventually shift color to brown-ish because of natural UV exposure... Not sure how long it would take, maybe decades.

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Erix

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Mar 25, 2016

madwolfaEven if kept covered or in a closet, away from UV, they will still darken from oxidation, even through a polyurethane coating. See the second to last paragraph of:
http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/purpleheart.htm
Will mentioned in his first comment (page 1), however, that these would be died. Will the die maintain the purple appearance in the pictures?

Mar 25, 2016

SenorPlatano

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Mar 25, 2016

madwolfaI think if they're covered in a certain coating they don't, which I'm pretty sure they are.

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SenorPlatano

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Mar 25, 2016

MeringoWill said it's gonna be subtle and he's the one selling it, if he wanted he would say it's a completely different pair of headphones that you should own along with the mahogany TH-X00, but he didn't.

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Buckbrick

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Mar 25, 2016

madwolfaWell wood does expand and contract with weather. It's humid most part of the year where I live and my mahogany bodied guitars fare better than my one cedar one. The cedar one actually bows out due to the humidity. Not sure about denser woods. Rosewood and teak withstand humidity very well. I'm real wary when it comes to wood.

Mar 25, 2016

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Meringo

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Mar 25, 2016

SenorPlatanoI'm not trying to make the claim it will be anything more than subtle.

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Jedi

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Mar 25, 2016

ErixShoot, I hope the manufacturer doesn't run out of purpleheart wood and just starts using purple die on the mahogany cups!

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SenorPlatano

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Mar 25, 2016

MeringoThen how come you can't wait?

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madwolfa

Mar 25, 2016

BuckbrickPurpleheart is extremely durable and water-resistant wood. Other than color shift due to UV and being an ass to work with, it's pretty much invincible.

Mar 25, 2016