also LYN most favourite spam headphone..
ppl like to spam here. ... lol
not saying that headphone is spam ya..
hahaha
MS1 is rocks, for the price imho.

SR80 for RM 335... compared to music by design RM 380...
it's ok if ur sr80 don't have problem. but if it is damaged? have to RMA? u might have to send back to taiwan. the price different for SR80 is not that big though. some more paying extra RM 45 u can use it for more than a month, save hassle of waitting. and u can even test at music by design kau kau.. before u decide to buy or not.
price of RS2 big different or not with local i not so sure.. so no comment.

well u could never know what will happen.
as far as i know. there's one MS1 sold to ipoh claim warrenty.
driver dead on arrival.

it's confirm faulty from factory.
as the unit box still brand new. not even a dent. the headphone not even a scratch. look exactly brand new. how to damage ?
totally no sound some more. not distort,

lol. u want? i can order couple of ultra sound series for u.. hahahaha

postage of RMA u can say is RM 200 MAX. but think about the time to wait? does the shop do oversea warrenty? after RMa do they post it back to you? or want ur friend to go over there to pick it up?

and u can't go ask, hard to call them to check the status of ur RMA. u won't even know they send it or not. as compare to local dealer u can ask them by going to their shop if they don't answer ur call.

that's why people prefer local warrenty. else everythings also get from SG loh cheaper mah as compared to malaysia.

like yuheng & walabies case, they are providing service to buy over SG. but they are responsible for the local warrenty. they will send ur unit back to SG for warrenty, and check the status and update to u. i guess, that's the service that makes the price different. of course ppl have to earn by providing service.
price can be cheap without the service, but when u have problem, then u might stuck in the middle of problem without even a way to slove it.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Apr 16 2008, 04:09 PM

he actually comes down in a much higher class last time.
he used to own hifi setup which cost around RM 50K in total.
now this kind of things still consider as toys for him. =P

lol
just to clarify that you are one big serious hifi kaki over this forum.
=P

newer batch of grado. has different soldering temperature as older one.

old one can take up to 350C. but new one. pls set the temperature to less than 280C.
else u might burn the voice coil.
especially some that they originally solder badly. that the cable is soldered with big dump of lead. and the lead is directly heating up the voice coil when u attempt to change wire.

set ur temperature lower, and work faster when u heat them up. it shall be fine. make sure you know what u wanna do when u touch ur soldering gun on the lead. don't heat up only u consider what's next.

for the price i charge. i did some other things other than just pure recable it.
to final tweaks the sound.
do your own headphone is one case.while do it for other ppl totally another case. doing it for your own, u can use naked wire, super ugly looking or melt some plastic part when you solder, no one is going to blame you as long as you can accept it by yourself. but when do other's ppl headphone. those things are not acceptable.

try imagine, doing recable with sleeve, and have to secure the sleeve nicely (some with double sleeve) so that it doesn't accidentally come out. solder point were solder tidily, without over heat it. silver contact point cleaner? WBT silver soldering lead that cost me RM 580 for merely a small roll???

stay in mind that if you had done it ugly. the headphone virtually has VERY VERY LOW resales value. even u can sell oso it will cost much lesser than original price you had bought it. or to say even LOWER than the usual second hand price for un-modded version.

you might said cosmetic is nothings, but seriously, get it done nicely is not easy at all rather just recable it. if customer sent their earphone for me to recable, i can just simply do it, super ugly looking, yet sounds perfectly all right, and charge relatively cheap price. but do you think the customer dare to bring it out? use at office? or even bring it to audiophile gathring?
however when i do recable for my customer. i have to consider that point oso.
paying RM 150 for my recable is too much? there's a numbers of MS1 recabled by me sold for over RM 500 while the new headphone itself just RM 280-350 previously.
try to request for recable service in headfi, with similar workmanship and parts that i provide and check if u can get it done RM 150 or not.



so pls do not simply comment on my work/ price if you don't have a clue what i am doing on those recabled headphone i had done.

by the way. Akabane@DrJackel is the new owner of my personal extreme modded MS1.
Akabane@DrJackel, how do u feel about it? it's been weeks since u got it.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Dec 26 2009, 01:41 AM

bro. if you are serious about amati. i think you must contact alvin now. so that he work with contractor to built the hifi room for you first in ur new house. amati is not something that buy , plug and play. it require really serious acoustic treatment, else you will end up with real headache like one of his customer. they just built the house. and after that found out the acoustic properties of the room is very bad. and had end up redo the whole room. wasted more than RM 100K just for room threatment.
even harmonix product used inside the room already cost an extra RM 60K on top of the RM 100K used to rebuilt the whole room. if you are dead serious about amati. u shall really go and talk to alvin. discuss what material to use in the room, what dimension of the room. how many power cord, at what rating, how many grounding. ect ect ect.

This post has been edited by PcWork: Dec 27 2009, 02:37 PM

by request.

grado RS225 woody + Jenalab cable Recable..





=)

previously, no matter how ridiculous your post were, i never critics on your post, but today you are the one who started it. you are the one harassing me by discuss about my work, in your thread.

while i never post anythings regarding your name at all in my post.
now i post here without disturb you. you come over and wanna start a flame war.
go on and argue.
yes recable is easy.
i never say it is difficult.
thanks for your concern.

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Added on October 2, 2010, 3:50 amyeah.. can do like that
but.. if more than 1 times. don't do this methods. as it will makes the holes bigger and bigger.
usually i will ask people to get CLEAR EPOXY (usually i use Bostik Brand) available in most jusco.
comes in small tubes, and very cheap.
take the one with 5 tonnes capability.
then put a bit in the holes
wait for 24 hours until it's totaly dry.
i do fix quite a numbers of grado headphone with that.
even those sending in for recable and has potential of loosen.. i oso help apply a bit on it. =)

This post has been edited by PcWork: Oct 2 2010, 03:50 AM

so on and continue.
i don't care...

people willing to pay me premium because i do it carefully and neatly for them, and most of the time i provide life time warranty for my workmanship
not every one is interested in taking risk of their own headphone.

you can sing your song all the way, i don't care.
but you are the one started it by mentioning my name with your DIY stuff. because in your post you saying "not calling pcworks or jaben just to tell them 'ok i'll think about it' when you ask the price =)"
hence i come out to voice it to you.

your statement is OFFENSIVE to me.

i forgotten it is 5 min epoxy or not.
but i am sure it is CLEAR epoxy.
if u can find Clear epoxy which settle within 5 minutes, can get that.
and.. despite it is 5 minute epoxy, it still have to settle for 24 hours for maximum strength.
just that after 5 minutes, it's kinda sticky so that the parts can hold themself up.

don't get STEEL epoxy. as it will has some grey powder formed when it dry. and it doesnt really hold plastic that strong..
i tried. don't work.
clear epoxy on the other hand. works charmingly.

the clear epoxy. is ... clear.. transparent colour.. with very very slight yellowish tint.

sorry to interfere about that.
all factory terminated CABLES for audio, as long as it is not super cheap type, it will be TERMINATED BY HAND.

so the question of hand made VS factory made is not even exits.
since 99.9% cable out there WERE hand terminated for more reliability even though they are named as "original Factory Terminated"

take cardas cable for example. each and single of the cable has the personnel's signature on the cable as well as the certificates of it.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Oct 3 2010, 03:17 PM