RE: "Without this 'feature' in 'play' the HD800 is all the good 'hype' you've heard about them..."

Well ,I suppose just saying "using better equipment" was pretty vague & misleading.. It's more a matter of using them in a better placed system approached playback system.

It's the source components you use that make or break the quality of the music you listen to "better".Most people only think they know what the music they listen to (Good,Bad, or Indifferent) sounds like. There are source components that will allow you to hear "further" into what was recorded than others. There's really no "Secret" going on here ! It's way too late to try to find significant improvements at the amplification stage.

Now, the reason I've assigned these problems to what the "ring radiator" does to the sound,
is because I have removed these parts from my HD800. I don't listen to much of any music that isn't Acoustic (mostly Orchestal, other Classical, Singer Songwriter , a tiny bit of Acoustic Jazz) so I don't know how much of what I could hear through the stock HD800s bothered others, but I'm positive that what I'm hearing from them now is completely free of the mechanically generated ,frequency interrupting & imaging contouring artifacts post my "intervention". I'm not so sure that if you just cover the rings completely with corresponding rings cut from a sheet of dBNeutralizer damping material from Herbie's it might be enough to
defeat what the radiator is doing to the natural imaging, but I'd still want make sure the protective screen were'n't still connected to the metal ring.

I'm guessing there may be other people who don't like what the ring radiator can potentially
do,but I guess they're just not crazy enough to be vocal about it !

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Topic - hd800 bad reputation - joessportster 07:32:10 10/11/15 (24)

RE: hd800 bad reputation - Old SteveA 14:38:30 10/21/15 (11)

RE: "Without this 'feature' in 'play' the HD800 is all the good 'hype' you've heard about them..." - genungo 09:51:15 10/23/15 (3)

RE: "Without this 'feature' in 'play' the HD800 is all the good 'hype' you've heard about them..." - Old SteveA 13:21:48 10/23/15 (2)

HD800 modification? - DrChaos 13:54:13 11/24/15 (1)

RE: HD800 modification? - Old SteveA 05:57:17 11/25/15 (0)

If so, it almost sounds as if... - genungo 17:09:37 10/21/15 (6)

RE: If so, it almost sounds as if... - Old SteveA 09:54:47 10/22/15 (5)

OK, I think I get it... - genungo 13:42:20 10/22/15 (4)

RE: OK, I think I get it... - Old SteveA 07:42:52 10/23/15 (2)

RE: OK, I think I get it... - joessportster 14:40:40 10/23/15 (1)

RE: OK, I think I get it... - Old SteveA 17:55:26 10/23/15 (0)

Waiting for the HD-800i then - jedrider 15:27:46 10/22/15 (0)

HD-700 anyone?? - jedrider 14:40:17 10/14/15 (1)

RE: HD-700 anyone?? - joessportster 18:17:26 10/14/15 (0)

RE: hd800 bad reputation - joessportster 09:16:23 10/14/15 (0)

RE: hd800 bad reputation - joessportster 10:26:53 10/11/15 (0)

RE: hd800 bad reputation - genungo 10:10:15 10/11/15 (6)

Yes, they will sing - Bill Way 18:41:52 10/17/15 (0)

Yes, and I have that right amp - mbnx01 16:32:31 10/11/15 (4)

RE: Yes, and I have that right amp - joessportster 18:12:14 10/17/15 (3)

Nice amp, and not only that, check the date on your post... - Ivan303 15:51:36 10/13/15 (2)

RE: Nice amp, and not only that, check the date on your post... - mbnx01 16:27:24 10/13/15 (1)

LIKE! nt - Travis 16:59:39 10/13/15 (0)

Perhaps the larger question might be... - Ivan303 07:46:38 10/11/15 (0)

Follow Ups

RE: "Without this 'feature' in 'play' the HD800 is all the good 'hype' you've heard about them..." - Old SteveA 13:21:48 10/23/15 (2)

HD800 modification? - DrChaos 13:54:13 11/24/15 (1)

RE: HD800 modification? - Old SteveA 05:57:17 11/25/15 (0)

RE: "Without this 'feature' in 'play' the HD800 is all the good 'hype' you've heard about them..."

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