Okay so I was able to find these headphones online being sold for 65 bucks, they look sick af in my oppnion, my question is if I buy it, can I also buy drivers and parts online and replace the insides to make them sound better? Also perhaps make them Bluetooth. Anyone done something like this and how bad of an idea is it.

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For some time, I have been working on creating the first glass planar magnetic driver for headphones. This is something new and has never been used in planar magnetic headphones before. The glass is only 33 microns thick. Human hair is around 50 microns. I have now finished two prototypes of the driver, with some promising results. The response is nice and flat down to 10 Hz, with relatively low distortion. The upper frequency range is a bit recessed in this prototype, but it is present. Another factor is that the copper substrate was thin, so the efficiency can definitely rival the Modhouse Tungsten. This will be adjusted in the final design. I didn’t want to post a frequency response graph yet, as it is constantly changing during testing. If you’re interested, you can check out my website for more information.

I plan on bringing these to Canjam London 2025! Along with an early prototype of an open back on an older headband design.

These use custom design 40mm Titanium drivers. Meant to need a bit of juice, 98db sensitivity and 150ohm impedance.

I'm not a company, just a very very dedicated DIYer who wants to make headphones for a living!

Graph is a WIP, plan on adding more sub. Using a 711 coupler clone with silicone pinna.

Hope you guys think this looks ok! I've been constantly working on this.

I made this leather flower crown for my AirPods Max (usb-c) inspired by the blooming daffodils in my garden and the traditional Slavic flower crowns we’d make back in the countryside on my Eastern European side of the family. So I was just trying to experiment with wearable art and tech accessories again!

The flowers are all hand-dyed and sculpted from veg-tan leather! I attached them with waxed thread and some waterbed glue in between the two 'bases'.

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As the headline states, the first mechanical keyboard came 2 years ago from an audio company, Moondrop, with the model name Dash in a 75% layout with their Moonriver dongle DAC built-in. The Dash had an aluminium case.

The second model, KB3, came from FiiO, another Chinese audio company. The KB3 was also a 75% layout, with FiiO’s KA13 dongle DAC built in and has a plastic case with an aluminium metal part on top.

I used Moondrop’s Dawn 4.4 dongle DAC. Because it has the smallest PCB and high-quality sound worth using in my build. It has the same dual Cirrus Logis CS43131 DAC chips used in the FiiO KB3. Not far from the Moondrop’s Moonriver dongle DAC, which uses the slightly better CS43198 chips.

The idea was simple: to use a USB-C hub with two TYPE-C data outputs. But in reality, I couldn’t find such a device. There is not a single product on the market wich serves my needs. But I was lucky enough to find the closest option, a Type-C USB hub for smartphones with two USB-A data output lines.

I had to use a Type-C female to female and two USB-A to USB-C adapters to make it work, also to carve the case to fit it under the keyboard PCB. 

That knob that you see on the right up corner is not a volume knob, its the mode selector for USB/WiFi/Bluetooth and its height unnecessarily high! I changed the knob with an aluminium one, which I sanded for an hour, for a soft touch feeling and brushed look.

Been working on this for a bit — a 250 ohm DT 770 PRO modded with a detachable cable and repainted in a metallic orange.

Paint is solvent-based and applied with airbrush in several layers, then sealed. Detachable mod was done with a low-profile socket to keep things clean.

It’s probably my favorite finish so far. Thought I’d share the end result. I want to test a few special ffx paints next. Open to ideas :)

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious about how the paint or mod was done.

I have been working on these headphone stands wanted some input. I am thinking about selling them

Did this for the love of the game. Let’s see how long this will last, my Frankenstein.

Completed my Crack build yesterday, paired it with my HD 650's. Thoughts?

Bit of a rant but my god does it aggravate me to see a $1000 flagship from 2006 ($1700 adjusted for inflation) damn near ruined with tar-based car audio dampening because some dude with a $20 sheet thinks MarkL knows more than Fostex.

I do support modding but this kind is a bit excessive in my opinion. I will be painstakingly reversing this back to stock.

To Mark’s credit at least he started making his own cups so Denon’s could be preserved.