Pinkfloyd

Hi Northern Oak, I had almost completed a 20 minute reply to your question re: caps when we had a power cut and everything shutdown for 45 minutes I can supply you with the caps and they will cost me £23.44 which includes VAT and postage to me. You can have them for the price they cost me and I can send them to you direct? I'm sure you could get them a lot cheaper in Singapore? The UK is very expensive for capacitors and on top of the price there is VAT and postage. Let me know what you decide and I'll go into a lot more detail about fitting them tomorrow as I don't want to type away here in case we get another power cut. Thing is, we generally "never" have a power cut but today there have been 3 for some strange reason. Mike.

lengcm, I need one X-feed too comfirmed can you also buy the two non polar cap for the X-Can V2 form Mike for me? I get my non polar caps from http://www.rswww.com and use the 220uF 63V varieties (Code: 768-908) They cost £0.88 each and there is a minimum order quantity of 5. I only have 1 of these capacitors left so it would mean you would have to buy 5 of them which seems crazy as RS add delivery and VAT on top of the price meaning: Capacitors x 5 £ 4.40 Postage £ 4.95 VAT £ 1.55 Total £10.45 I certainly wouldn't pay £10.45 for 2 non polar capacitors and there is surely somewhere in Singapore that you can obtain them? I won't be placing an order with RS for some time but if you can hold on for a few weeks I can order the caps with my next order so they would then only cost you £4.40 for the five of them....... I'll gladly send you the 1 capacitor I have free of charge if 1 is of any use? Pinkie.

I'm not aware of any improvements to the bass response using the X-Feed but there is certainly no loss of bass with the X-Feed in the circuit. The bass is slightly more centrally located in the soundstage which may give the impression of "added bass" but this is purely psycological as the frequency response is unaltered. The X-Feed produces a natural directional bass as opposed to the normal Uni-Directional bass (unnatural) that most headphones output and this may also be a factor in the perception that there is "more" bass. To sum the bass question up: The X-Feed converts uni-directional bass to directional bass so it is being perceived as a more natural sounding bass. The soundstage, with the X-Feed in the circuit, is thrown slightly forward about 6 inches or so forward out of the head making it more like listening to a set of loudspeakers. There isn't a "widening" of the soundstage, if anything the X-Feed slightly narrows it, but there is certainly a shift forward out of the head with everything sounding more together. The left, right and centre soundstage is replaced with a more balanced natural soundstage. I trust this answers your question Pinkie.

Hi everybody, Just thought I'd pop in to say hello and I'll be sure to spread the word about your superb headphone forum. Keep up the good work Pinkie.