Hi everyone!
Newbie and I”m here just trying to test and try all different methods to create a fun headphone.
As far as headphones go, can some of you direct me towards small pieces I can wire and solder between the speaker and amp.. I‘m interested as to what types of pieces I need to buy to cut off frequencies or how to lower volume to certain speakers.
Are there any guides or sites that teach this?
Just for fun I want to do a multi driver headphone and want to figure out materials, space, and if resisotors or capacitors. Are there any noobie guides out there?
Newbie and I”m here just trying to test and try all different methods to create a fun headphone.
As far as headphones go, can some of you direct me towards small pieces I can wire and solder between the speaker and amp.. I‘m interested as to what types of pieces I need to buy to cut off frequencies or how to lower volume to certain speakers.
Are there any guides or sites that teach this?
Just for fun I want to do a multi driver headphone and want to figure out materials, space, and if resisotors or capacitors. Are there any noobie guides out there?
Hi and welcome!
When you say "speakers", are you referring to the little headphone drivers that are found within the headphone housings?
Resistors can be used to attenuate the signal going to the headphone drivers and capacitors can be used to prevent low frequencies from reaching the high frequency drivers in a "multi driver" headphone.
Please state more clearly what you are trying to achieve and we'll see how we can help.
When you say "speakers", are you referring to the little headphone drivers that are found within the headphone housings?
Resistors can be used to attenuate the signal going to the headphone drivers and capacitors can be used to prevent low frequencies from reaching the high frequency drivers in a "multi driver" headphone.
Please state more clearly what you are trying to achieve and we'll see how we can help.
Sorry.
I bought a quadraphonic headphone set for fun. So each side has 2 headphone Drivers. So please bear in mind this is a fun project, all technical stuff about it may sound bad,etc, just throw that away. I want to use this as a hobby for my depression and try new things.
I’m still waiting on it to arrive and the headphone cup is horizontal rather than the usual circle headphone style with 1 driver you see.
What I really want to do is make my own custom Earcup to fit 2 40mm or 2 50mm drivers for each side.
BUT the harder part is that I want to add in a 3rd very small speaker to create a type of crossfeed.. So I want to see what driver or what part I can get to reduce it in volume and or to cut off certain frequencies. I’m probably looking to do 32ohm speakers. I know drivers are sold out Everywhere and the only ones I find right now are the Dayton Audio ones which are fine since they are cheap and it would be good for mockups and see how everything works.
And who knows it might sound nice.
I bought a quadraphonic headphone set for fun. So each side has 2 headphone Drivers. So please bear in mind this is a fun project, all technical stuff about it may sound bad,etc, just throw that away. I want to use this as a hobby for my depression and try new things.
I’m still waiting on it to arrive and the headphone cup is horizontal rather than the usual circle headphone style with 1 driver you see.
What I really want to do is make my own custom Earcup to fit 2 40mm or 2 50mm drivers for each side.
BUT the harder part is that I want to add in a 3rd very small speaker to create a type of crossfeed.. So I want to see what driver or what part I can get to reduce it in volume and or to cut off certain frequencies. I’m probably looking to do 32ohm speakers. I know drivers are sold out Everywhere and the only ones I find right now are the Dayton Audio ones which are fine since they are cheap and it would be good for mockups and see how everything works.
And who knows it might sound nice.
So, you're waiting for something like the quadraphonic headphones in my attached image to arrive?
Is your aim to be able to blend the left and right hand outputs of the headphones so that the extreme headphone stereo sounds more like the crossfed stereo you get from a pair of loudspeakers in a room?
Is your aim to be able to blend the left and right hand outputs of the headphones so that the extreme headphone stereo sounds more like the crossfed stereo you get from a pair of loudspeakers in a room?
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Exactly! Those look great too!!!
I just have to test it out cause I don’t know how loud I want the blending to be, so that’s what I’m trying to figure out what to buy. Plus I need to find some sourcing on good 3.5mm audio parts for the headcups. Still not sure if I want to run an 3.5mm audio input in each ear up or just wire it to one.
I just want to know if there are any general passive pieces I can solder in that tinkers with the sound. By the way have you ever heard quadraphonic headphones, are they any good? I’m hoping to get a really wide and fun soundstage with these.
Thanks! Yea I’ve seen that before, but now I also want to bring in another driver for a crossfeed effect. So I need to figure out how to go about that.
but is it possible to mimic that by adding in another speaker and wiring in a piece to lower its sound? I’d rather do it that way.
I don't know about bringing in another driver.
The stereo headphone output from your amp could be connected to the headphones via a stereo blend circuit, possibly based around a 500 ohm potentiometer.
Perhaps someone here can come up with a safe version of such a crossfeed circuit.
The stereo headphone output from your amp could be connected to the headphones via a stereo blend circuit, possibly based around a 500 ohm potentiometer.
Perhaps someone here can come up with a safe version of such a crossfeed circuit.
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I'm running them off a Cayin C5 or XDUOO XD-05 amp . I'm basically just asking if there's any passive circuitry I can buy that's small to where I can mount it in the cups wiring. Both amps I believe put out their max power 500mw at 32 ohms. l
And the headphone drivers I see to buy are usually 32 ohm, while a very few are 16 and 8 ohm.
All I want to do is have a fun build, try and test out stuff. I'd really love to get that holographic sound where you can't tell the sound is coming from the speakers.
I suggest you ask in the "Headphone Systems" section of the forum for a passive circuit that would allow you to safely blend the left and right hand outputs from your 500mW, 32 ohm headphone amplifier, in order to simulate loudspeaker stereo on your headphones.
Will do, thank you!
Also just wondering if you know, but they do sell 6.5mm dual splitters into one 6.5mm cable. My XDUOO accepts the 6.5mm connection, so do you think that theres a chance all 4 speakers will still work using a splitter? I am curious as to how they sound stock..
If you want to convert the single stereo 6.35 mm output socket on your headphone amp to two 6.35 mm stereo sockets, then splitters are available.
For example: https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/audio-...plug-to-2-x-sockets-007548-5055383475483.html
I see that quadraphonic headphones are fitted with two 6.35 mm stereo jack leads, but I don't know what the result of connecting those jacks to your stereo splitter will be. https://reverb.com/item/8001242-jvc-5944-quadraphonic-headphones
For example: https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/audio-...plug-to-2-x-sockets-007548-5055383475483.html
I see that quadraphonic headphones are fitted with two 6.35 mm stereo jack leads, but I don't know what the result of connecting those jacks to your stereo splitter will be. https://reverb.com/item/8001242-jvc-5944-quadraphonic-headphones
