I’ve had mine for a couple of days and these beauties are a lot of fun!
My ones have something of v shaped sound profile with mids and vocals a little sucked out although not noticeable on many tracks .
Bass is huge and perhaps slightly flabby . Treble is extremely detailed but a little perky . Soundstage is good for a closed back headphone . So perhaps not perfect but very impressive overall
So time to mod . Unfortunately my replacement pads seem to be on the slow boat from China so in the meantime I have used a bit of 2mm wool felt teased out on the cups and put some Newplast on the baffle perhaps I may add a little more later .
It hasn’t dramatically changed the sound signature but I am fairly sure that bass has more punch and is cleaner sounding .
My ones have something of v shaped sound profile with mids and vocals a little sucked out although not noticeable on many tracks .
Bass is huge and perhaps slightly flabby . Treble is extremely detailed but a little perky . Soundstage is good for a closed back headphone . So perhaps not perfect but very impressive overall
So time to mod . Unfortunately my replacement pads seem to be on the slow boat from China so in the meantime I have used a bit of 2mm wool felt teased out on the cups and put some Newplast on the baffle perhaps I may add a little more later .
It hasn’t dramatically changed the sound signature but I am fairly sure that bass has more punch and is cleaner sounding .
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Hi there! Thanks for posting this mods! I just received a pair and put them to burn in. I am curious how do you dismantle these cans? can you post some pics and some instructions? I want to change pads and they seem to fit very well into the cans. I do not want to break actual pads and I am afraid how will I put new pads onto them... sry for this stupid request...
are the LF drivers 50mm? - have they been changed since 422H's introduction ? What values does it use in its crossover?
I use a set of cheap Oneodio running off an old Macbook. - they produce good bass without much clamping force, don't bottom out on percussion or bass drops, very little distortion = good enough for wide range of genre - cheesy looking but don't break like Grado's flimsy swivel. It would be good to know if 422H aren't shamed in the bass region compared to the $30 Oneodio.
I use a set of cheap Oneodio running off an old Macbook. - they produce good bass without much clamping force, don't bottom out on percussion or bass drops, very little distortion = good enough for wide range of genre - cheesy looking but don't break like Grado's flimsy swivel. It would be good to know if 422H aren't shamed in the bass region compared to the $30 Oneodio.
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What makes you say they lack a midrange? Do you have instrumented head dummy measurements that show it lacking? It’s a full range dynamic driver with an AMT tweeter. The mid comes from a single dynamic cone like 95% of other headphones, which seem to have sufficient midrange. Mids are important to me in speakers - I know as I use a Scanspeak 10F/8424 as the mid tweeter with a woofer for bass. These headphones don’t seem to lack bass from what I hear.
So I was looking for 10uf film caps online, they are quite large, 27,5mm space between pins, 7,27 ccm3 volume. Not sure if it is a good idea to reduce volume of headcups in trade for better caps there.
Would like to hear opinions/options on this case. There are tantalum caps of small size available or electrolytics that could be bypassed with film. Abother option is to route wires outside of headphones and have caps installed in small, weightless "mystery box".
Would like to hear opinions/options on this case. There are tantalum caps of small size available or electrolytics that could be bypassed with film. Abother option is to route wires outside of headphones and have caps installed in small, weightless "mystery box".
Did my 422H get totally fried when I forgot to set the volume down from my T50RP's comfortable level on the Bravo V3 amp? (I think "SO")
It seems like "RIP AMTs" (unless a capacitor opened) The overload event was loud as hell on my hearing and lasted perhaps 20 seconds before being able to reach any level control.
quick and dirty measurements with Dayton mic and a comforter and notebook separating the two cups - - cups faced down at the comforter - no real seal - but the little ECHO was interesting.
It seems like "RIP AMTs" (unless a capacitor opened) The overload event was loud as hell on my hearing and lasted perhaps 20 seconds before being able to reach any level control.
quick and dirty measurements with Dayton mic and a comforter and notebook separating the two cups - - cups faced down at the comforter - no real seal - but the little ECHO was interesting.
