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
My photos show a hugh overmilled gap in two directions. There is no joint, it have been removed by mistake leaving an unintended 1/16" gap. It was milled too deep (bottomed out) and additionally mistakenly milled in the adjacent plane removing material which should have been left. They have milled out any intended joint leaving an ugly unintended oversize unfinished gap. Did I mention the gap was not finished? The wood is unfinished unlike the pictures mass drop and others have posted. As posted earlier, this type of joint was never intended to bottom out. It should be similiar to a "v" router bit which does not bottom out rather only goes approximately 1/3 of the total depth down resulting in a nice looking finished joint. This is not what my cans look like it has not only been bottomed out meaning milling way too far down, a second mistake was made removing even more wood from the metal frame to the wooden cup, 1/16" making it extremely noticeable. Did I mentioned it was not stained or lacquered? Making this white wood stick out compared to the stained, lacquered wood, mahogany. Please massdrop or anyone else show me photos like I posted which your telling you purchased and thought were acceptable.
1. Please be nice to other people who are trying to help you. 2. A close up picture would probably help easier identifying problem. 3. The gap is intended as people mentioned it's been around since Denon days (I own Denon D2000). These headphones are really semi-open headphones and the gap help making it sound more open and netural. 4. The notches on the side is to make room for the headphone hinges, if they don't mill those out the wood will hit the hinge and it will not fit. Denon's D2000 plastic cup did not need this because plastic can be made thinner without breaking.
How do I know this? I've opened and closed my headphone over 30+ times to mod them to sound the way I wanted.
Unless there is something we missed but it would really help with a close up pic.
Cheers!
Wow... did I ever get what I asked for. You've posted quite a bit of content, and there's a lot of "tennis dialogue" but that's to be expected.
However I have one question: Have you actually listened to them? By the way, I'm not asking this in that how they sound should justify what may or may not be a manufacturing defect, I'm just curious if you even did try them out for their utility.