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Responsible for converting electrical signals into sound waves, drivers play a major role in influencing IEM audio. Different drivers produce different sound characteristics—and having multiple drivers can help color the entire frequency spectrum Read More
Holy f*k mate, thank you very much for the information and even the links! You really drop the ball with your opinions and facts (I was in the Pandas headphones discussion as well).
Will check all you sent me, I want to eventually get into custom built headphones as well. I have the PortaPros and KSC75 incoming and will start modding them. I've heard that the 25 cents mod is a great way to get more "intimate" sound, but as a result skin flakes and dust can get into the driver, so will try some different kinds of fabric to cover it and see how sound changes.
I know, the CCP virus has indeed messed up international trade, but we can only hope to find a vaccine until the end of this year. Anyway, when you get finally to do those custom casings do ping me, I would love to see what you come up with.
Alejo1707Always happy to help, especially to fellow DIY'ers, ha.
I'm actually starting my first project as a pair of headphones as there are quite a few folks making drivers for this sort of thing. This is the one that has my attention the most right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/fbr49k/my_first_diy_headphones_featuring_handmade_planar/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I've been buying old, broken headphones (old DT770 and HiFiMan 400 series for closed and open variants) and using their parts for headband, housings, etc as I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I figure once O have the internal baffle and diaphragms designed properly to match whatever driver and electronics I settle on, I can get fancier with nice cups. I like the headband style of both of these already so no need to even bother with something new. The DIY IEM route I'm planning to do after as it's much more involved. I was thinking of doing something with a DD in a wood housing before I even bothered with BAs due to complexity (my soldering skills aren't the best by any stretch, ha).
Either way, it should be fun and I've already learned quite a bit. So that's a plus. Certain manufacturers also make it a bit easier to just buy their drivers outright (like Beyer or Fostex of you have a valid S/N) so you could also stick with a driver that's more well known. Obviously, they're just more expensive. I'd love to transplant some TH900 drivers and tune them to my taste but they're a pain to get unless you have/know someone with a valid serial number for requesting from Fostex. They're a lot more lax on the T50 drivers.
Anyhow, there are already some very good resources since you want to dive in: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/home-made-iems.430688/
And
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/
They're big threads so you'll have to sort through a lot to get to the good stuff but it's worth it. That IEM thread is over 11 years old and still active so that should tell ya something 😁
ZachLNot sure, on a mobile browser I couldn't even get them to open up. LOL the pics aren't too different then what is shown on Drops site. I think the important thing to take away is the extra info the site provides.😃
I know people are skeptical about the codec and I am too. I ordered the R10s. I will let you know how they sound when I get them. I'm not expecting much for $200 but here's to hope!
I suspect they will sound more than four times better than my $50 truly wireless earbuds and that is a win in my opinion.
I have to admit, drop's lack of communication on the shipping delay has made me consider requesting a refund. We should be getting updates more than once a month. If I don't hear any good news by the 9th, I'm going to request a refund. I really wanted to get my hands on the R10s they seem like a much better option than a current bluetooth earbuds I have. Drop don't let me down!
watcherinoDrop and many other retailers seem to ignore this extremely important criteria for evaluating wireless audio devices. The sad thing it affects people on both sides of the bed, IOS or Android . I have seen BT audio devices advertised without any info. Many devices just don't say whether it's AAC, SBC, APTX (in all of it's flavors), LDAC, HWA. After this many years of bluetooth audio, it just smacks of either ignorance or laziness. Either way, as consumers we need demand more from our retailers. Dear Drop, please treat us consumers of bluetooth devices with a bit more respect in future.
I've never not gotten a notification concerning delay of a product on here, so that's somewhat concerning. Can you guys let us know what's up? Even just acknowledging the delay would be cool.
Edit: 7/9 They've shipped it out, it's happening!
joshuachewThat would be dope but not very likely. Seems like a big hastle to basically remake then entire case+iems and also align connectors and so it charges in the case.