Ah it's on warranty. That changes things. You should just get it replaced by Philips.

I can't see the part so I can't help you much, but usually this axis goes through the holes from the outside and there's a groove that has a matching ring in the earcup that keeps it from falling out. Then there's a retaining clip on this groove that locks it in place. It may be hard to take it off.

Things like that can be made with DIY methods, and tools are welcome. You know, measuring calipers, a saw, sanding paper and about an hour of free time. You can't just repair it, you need to reconstruct the entire part. You do that with metal tubes or rods and whatever you can think of that you glue together to make that shape. If done right, it's more durable then the original part. OF course people who can model in 3D use printers for that.

I don't know a place that can help you, but there's another piece on the other side of the headphone and you can at least look at it to know what to look for.

Anyway, it looks like the plastic axis snapped in half. you need to open the eacup to get the other half out and substitute it with somehting made of metal tubing and putty.

>antlion duo

So a gaming headset. Reminds me of the 5.1 gaming craze we had a while ago with multi-driver, multi-channel headphones.

Are there IEMs with multiple dynamic drivers though? I don't think I know any.

Ok, I see. That;s not really a fair comparison then. Wireless headphones don't sound clear in general and the ANC ones are usually tuned for a lot of bass and not much else. So it has nothing to do with driver configuration. $20 Koss heaphones or Truthear earphones will outperform most speakers with their clarity. There's no question about that. The modern tech really sucks when it comes to sound quality.

I think it's a good opportunity to try some wired audiophile headphones or earphones. Stuff like KSC75, SHP9500 or Etymotic earphones. IF you like the sound of your speakers, then these should blow your mind with how much clarity they have for the price.

I don't know what you mean by sounding better. Headphones are often overpriced because they're a fashoin accessory, so there's that.

First of all there are many configurations for multi-driver speakers and coaxial is just one of them and it's not necessarily the best. It's a complex topic, so let's unwrap it.

Speakers need many drivers because they move a lot of air. Unfortunately there is no way one driver can do that and at the same time reproduce highs accurately. A big cone is too heavy to follow a coil that changes direction that fast, so instead it vibrates chaotically. But it gets worse... Basically the speaker plays into open space and every driver has it's spatial character. I don't mean how you perceive it, but actual spatial character - where the driver sends the sound and where it doesn't. We call it directivity. Multi-driver speakers have severe problems with it - they simply make no sense and the response doesn't add up apart from one spot in front of them. Coaxials exist solely because of that. They're supposed to cover the fact that they're separate drivers. Take any other criteria and coaxials suck. I don't mean a particular model, but they are in general a challenge to engineer, because every single part of the woofer messes up the tweeter's response and vice versa. They have severe amplitude intermodulation that comes from the fact that tweeters waveguide (woofer's cone) is constantly moving. Few coaxials sound good outside of car audio. Most of them are weird. In hifi Kef got it right and that's about it. Generally the only way to make a coaxial work is 3-way and up. Two way coaxials are intended to work with subwoofers. So you have a complicated solution that comes with many compromises.

Headphones don't have that problem. There are coxial headphones. I don't remember which, but I don't think they are anything special (?). But let's start from the beginning...

First of all heapdhones are doing fine with one driver. Think about it this way: a speaker is a pump, a headphone is a compressor. A compressor makes high pressure with very little fluid. Headphone driver is big enough to make bass and small enough for highs because it can make that bass with very little displacement. It works by creating pressure, not flow.

There are headphones with many drivers but they're expensive and heavy and comfort is important. Any benefit in sound? I don't see much.

If you want to experience multi-way headphone then there are a couple worth mentioning: AKG K340 and1more tripple driver OE, maybe Meze Empyrean. There were some other, but completely unremarkable headphones from Technics and Universum for example. There is no polite way of putting it - they suck hard.

Axel Grell, who is a famous acoustics engineer, is currently working on a two-way headphone, so hopes are high for it, but nobody expects them to be on par with his single driver work like HD800, and HD800 has a ring driver, that has space for a tweeter inside. Despite that they desided to leave it open.

If you want to get into detail, then with electronic music timbre accuracy doesn't matter, but tonal balance and sharpness still make a difference. You don't need to be into technicalities of sound reproduction to notice that some gear is smooth and precise and full of nuance. People just call it "fast", because they feel like the headphone feeds them more information. This is especially true for electrostatic headphones which are the most expensive way of listening.

That detail can be interesting or not and pleasant or not. I personally don't enjoy detail on a lot of music. You can say that audiophile music is a genre of it's own. You can pick tracks across the whole spectrum of music and find ones that are sonically interesting. I love listening to Tipper on resolving gear for example. The texture in his music is a new kind of pleasure that I was completely unaware of before getting into audiophilia.

You can think of it like a game of paper chase. The detail needs to be hidden in the recording. It needs to be subtle and it needs to be fun. If it isn't, then you'll be uninterested in it. Electronic music is perfect for this, because the artist has an enormous control over shaping the character of each sound and layering them, although of course few take advantage of it.

That being said, the examples that you gave are generally music that's the opposite of audiophile, broadly speaking. Simplicity is the motto of 8 bit artists. They're the punks of technical refinement. With most EDM, the basis are pretty much covered with $500 headphones. So even if you can find headphones that will resolve more, will it be important to you is questionable.

Now I feel like it needs to be said that not all expensive gear is about increase in accuracy or refinement. Many are what I call "effect headphones". Stuff like HD800 has detail and all that, but the pricetag is from it's spatial character that is basically a different experience than listening to typical headphones. Because of that I always felt like most basis for electronic music are covered with $500 semiopen headphones and other products are like a second pair or in other words a surplus luxury, a gadget.

You can replace the lightbulbs with LEDs to brighten it up.

In audio the best products are those that were iterated many times in a slow evolutionary manner.

It's also blured.

Didn't expect that acuity.

"There is a reason why US is falling apart. It's a capitalist apple with a rotten core".

A lot of what the west accomplished was built using revolutionary and communist ideology, so I'm not surprised people romanticize it. Soviet Union's and China's Marxism-Leninism is probably what you mean when you say "communism".

Fugly but works. All in the Beyerdynamic spirit ;)

I'm not entirely convinced that the headphones got that worse. Have you considered that your ratty, used up DT990 changed their sound because their important parts changed with wear? Earpads influence sound. When they break down, the driver gets closer to your ear and that changes tonal balance.

You can also install an equalizer app and fix the bass yourself.

Start onlycans. These babies need to pay for themselves.

What do you mean you destroyed DT770? You split the atom or what?

If you hear difference with headphones, you should also hear it without them. Listen to some noises and cover one ear.

There are more helicopters in the sea than boats in the sky.

What headphone is that?

You must have many ears.

Yeah, the newer Senns sound dead. The sennheiser veil used to be lack of treble, but these donlt have upper mids too. Make sure you never buy current Apple headphones then, haha. They are HD6xx squared. One day I equalized my ear gain flat with my own ears and then listened to heaphones like this. It was awful, sounded like an ear infection.

That being said, if you read B&K occluded ear simulator patent, you'll see that there is a big variance in our ears. Some ears have a response that matches headphones like the 6xx. HD650 is matching the median very closely up to 6k and then drops a little. Many people complain that they're too hot, so it tells you something about neutrality.

You may die way before that.

Reminds me of Mozart's quote:
Music is the silence between the notes.

Good points, but the 70s headphones that I know are all midcentric, not just the monitors.
I owned K370 and heard some orthos. I also have Fostex T40RP right now on my head and it's the only vocal monitor. Unfortunately I know also some less expensive headphones including the common man's Sennheiser HD414 and boy were they awful. K370 only covered the full-ish range because it was a dual driver. After that model bass in AKG really went extinct. Stax had the same issue. They were all midcentric headphones even though they were not studio workhorses. The tuning back then was just mostly mids. They were close, some were better than an average headphone today, but the general trend is quite clear. Yamaha was probably an exception, although today the age might obscure that, because they lack extension. The Soviet Echo headphones that are easier to find where I live are plain midcentric like the rest of them.