croak
R.I.P. 28 June 2021
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Anyone who has owned the same pair of HD600 for a couple years probably knows the problem. Intermittent contact with the capsules. Sounds like a broken cable or connector. You move, crackle. Annoying. Even scary at higher levels.
New cables don?t really help or do sometimes for a short while until the somewhat bent contact springs settle. Then it?s back to crackle crackle.
I decided to google again and see if I could find a fix. I ended up watching a YouTube disassembly of the HD600 by inner fidelity.
To my amazement he showed that the springs are a Sennie spare part and replaceable.
They push in and out with some care.
I ordered the only 4 springs in stock with Sennie SA.
Got them picked up. Courier cost more than springs.
Ready to rock and roll I got stumped a little. My wires were soldered on to the springs. My HD600 weren?t bought new and are old. Maybe they are real early or even got ?modded?. Dunno.
Anyways. Nervous as hell I proceeded. The lead wires are as thin as those on a cartridge coil. Low temp. Magnification. Facing Mecca and holding breath I managed to desolder a spring at a time and fit new springs one at a time and solder the leads to the new springs which are an easier to solder material than the old ones.
It worked. I broke bought. No more crackle. With the fresh sushi is from a few months ago it?s like a an old friend who got a **** job and some Botox. Lovely again.
Very pleased. My best hifi spend of 40 bucks plus vat for 2020.
https://youtu.be/mBpic9jbjzs
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New cables don?t really help or do sometimes for a short while until the somewhat bent contact springs settle. Then it?s back to crackle crackle.
I decided to google again and see if I could find a fix. I ended up watching a YouTube disassembly of the HD600 by inner fidelity.
To my amazement he showed that the springs are a Sennie spare part and replaceable.
They push in and out with some care.
I ordered the only 4 springs in stock with Sennie SA.
Got them picked up. Courier cost more than springs.
Ready to rock and roll I got stumped a little. My wires were soldered on to the springs. My HD600 weren?t bought new and are old. Maybe they are real early or even got ?modded?. Dunno.
Anyways. Nervous as hell I proceeded. The lead wires are as thin as those on a cartridge coil. Low temp. Magnification. Facing Mecca and holding breath I managed to desolder a spring at a time and fit new springs one at a time and solder the leads to the new springs which are an easier to solder material than the old ones.
It worked. I broke bought. No more crackle. With the fresh sushi is from a few months ago it?s like a an old friend who got a **** job and some Botox. Lovely again.
Very pleased. My best hifi spend of 40 bucks plus vat for 2020.
https://youtu.be/mBpic9jbjzs
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