Deep Purple Custom sennheiser HD25-1 mk II
Here is a nice set of sennheiser HD25 in deep purple – it is a relatively new colour for us but looks really nice. These have not been set up in the shop yet but if you fancy a pair just pop us an email
This is a ppair of custom airbrushed sennheiser HD25 in deep purple
Star Wars fan art Sennheiser HD25 DJ Headphones
Having grown up with the original films and toys I have always had a soft spot for star wars. One of our repeat customers asked us really nicely to make a set with Yoda and Obi wan and even though normally I would not take something like that on as there is so much work involved that we would be guaranteed to make loss on them. But… being a total nerd I had to say yes.
These took a really long time to make even though I cheated a bit but doing the faces using digitally printed transfers. I could not resist doing the light saber in glow in the dark paint so I also gave Yoda a green outer glow as well.
Custom painted fan art starwars headphones
Custom painted obi wan sennheiser HD25-1 dj headphones
Some more custom headphone creations
Here is a few more headphones we made recently
Firstly we have this pair of modified DT770 with lime green Litz cables. They have modified drivers and detachable cable
A pair of modified beyerdynamic DT770 with lime green cabling
https://customcans.co.uk/s/s/index.php/headphones/audiophile-headphones/uber-dt770.html
Next up an unusual colour combo but it seems to work – yellow and blue custom sennheiser HD25-1 mk II
A pair of custom sennheiser HD25-1 in yellow and blue
These are particularly bling
They are a customized pair of sennheiser HD25 done with 24ct gold leaf and then they have a rolex crown and diamond pattern over the top. When I first herd the idea I thought it may look tacky but i really liked this finished thing and the use of real gold gibed them a glow that can’t really be done justice with a photo
A pair of customized sennheiser HD25 mk II covered in gold leaf with a rolex and diamond design
We make a lot of HD25 with our blue and white splatter design but this pair is one of our uber HD25s with modified drivers, damping and a silver cable
A pair of upgraded sennheiser HD25 with silver cable and mass loading
Another pair of custom DT770 this time with a balanced connection for the pono player – I also like the blue cables with the black headphones. These also have mass loaded drivers, advanced damping and detachable litz cables
A pair of custom balanced DT770 studio headphones with a blue detachable cable
https://customcans.co.uk/s/s/index.php/headphones/audiophile-headphones/modified-dt770-for-pono-player.html
Finally for this batch we have this awesome pair of custom airbrushed sennheiser HD25-1 in green camo – Nice
A pair of custom made camouflage sennheiser HD25-1 DJ Headphones
Thing of the day Days 11,12,13 and 14
I Got caught up with the making of all the stuff again and forgot to blog about it so here is what I have done for thing of the day for the past few days.
Day 11
Beyerdynamic T1 damping kit. This was designed to smooth out the treble peak in the beyer T1s and give them a more balanced sound without detracting from their amazing sound quality
Damping kit to smooth out the treble peak on the beyer t1s
Day 12
This is a bit of art Joe did. It is a triptych made from plastecine on board
Day 13
Day 13 of thing of the day.
Cheapo asynchronous 384K/32bit XMOS DAC with USB Audio 2.0 support for less than £30 to build.
I managed to pickup a developer board for the new XMOS DAC this only works on USB audio 2.0 which is not currently naively supported in windows so it was a bit of a bugger to get working – I just knocked up a basic case from 5mm acrylic and it sounds amazing – much more detailed than our old Arcam DAC.
It has 384K/32bit support so ready for some HD audio goodness.
I am planning to convert it to balanced and maybe add the option of running it from a battery to get rid of any ripple from the mains
DIY xmos dac in acrylic case
Day 14
I am quite proud of this one… a restomodded MIG 15 helmet with modern headphone drivers and fully custom cable and earpads
a resto modded mig 15 helmet with modern headphone drivers
Day 9 of thing of the day.
I have been planning on building a balanced headphone amp and DAC on a budget of under £100 for a while, gradually buying up bits off ebay and alibaba to make it with. Today I finished soldering the the components to the amp boards. There are two, one for each ear on the headphones in balanced mode or to run two standard pairs of headphones. They are basically cheapish Chinese kits ( around £15 each ) and I have then swapped out a lot of the capacitors for higher end audio ones. I also picked up a step type volume control. Now, for another thing of the day I need to design and build a case and power supply for it.
It has to be said… I am not quite sure what I am doing but I learn through making mistakes so I suspect I will learn a lot from this project 🙂
DIY balanced headphone amp
Day 8 of thing of the day
Day 8 and one I have been looking forward to. I stared these quite a long time ago but lot motivation and did not finish them. So … Finally I give you some frugelhorn mark 3 covered in marvel comics and then lacquered to protect them. They are fitted with alpair 7 drivers and made of the best 18mm birch ply so incredibly high end stuff with a fun comicbook look
Some horn speakers covered in comic books fitted with alpair drives
Day 6 of thing of the day
After learning a lot from the first pair of resto modded vintage headphones I have kicked it up a notch and done a better job on this pair. I have gone for much more expensive high end drivers and made custom laser cut wooden baffles and a pad adapter to fit the more comfortable HD25 pads
The drivers are 40mm with wool fibers in the cone and neo magnets so pretty fancy. I also made custom wire mesh grills to protec the cones and give it a bit more of a steampunk look 🙂
laser cutting wooden headphone baffles
High end headphone drivers with wool fiber drivers
Then I re-cabled the headphones with a nice vintage looking headphone cable and tested to make sure the drivers fit with the adapter
Classic vintahe headphones with modern drivers and pads
Then they are all held together with hot glue and attach a wide body rean jack to finish the look
Some steam punk headphones made by modifuying some vintage ones
The drivers are 32ohm so work great with portable stereos and phones. I will test them over the next few days and if all goes well it may be time to start selling them
Another batch of custom airbrushed headphones
It has been a little while since I got round to posting some pics of our works of headphone art so here is a little round up of some of the ones yo have missed.
First of we have this flame red pair – simple but effective
Some sennheiser HD25-1 mk II in red
https://customcans.co.uk/s/s/index.php/headphones/onecolourhd25/flame-red-sennheiser-hd25-1-mk-ii-pro-dj-headphones-hd-25.html
next up we have these blue and white splatter ones – these are becoming our most popular design now far outselling plain white which used to be our top seller. This pair also has an audiophile cable.
Custom sennheiser HD25-1 dj headphones with Pollock style splatter pattern
https://customcans.co.uk/s/s/index.php/headphones-sennheiser-hd-25-html-html.html
Catering to our audiophile customers – these beyerdynamic T5p have been converted to detachable cable using 4pin miniXLR sockets and we have made them a custom ultra low capacitance cable to match. If you fancy getting something like this done to yours just message us through the jfunk.org site
Modified beyerdynamic T5p with detachable custom litz cable
These were technically very advanced. They have clear perspex shields which were laser engraved on the reverse and then LEDs are mounted inside the earcup so the text lights up in the dark. They took nearly a moth to do as it was the first pair of custom ones with LEDs we had done and it was not nearly as easy as I had imagined
A pair of beyerdynamic custom one pro with LED light up earcups
This pair of Beyerdynamic T1 have been modified with detachable cable and a cuttom balanced cable designed to work with the pono player or a sony PHA-3 – Nice
A pair of beyerdynamic T1 modified for PONO balanced output
This is another splatter pattern pair of HD25-1 but I really like the black text against a black background with a splatter outline – subtle and cool
Some mode custom HD25-1 dj headphones with a red splatter pattern and black text
Thing of the day – Day 4
I suppose the main point of starting this thing of the day project was to prompt the team to finish all the half started projects.
Quite a while ago we started buying up interesting looking vintage headsets with the idea of moding them to work with modern portable audio equipment. Unfortunately we were so busy making cables and adapters for the pono player that the project got put on hold. Now things have calmed down a little and I am under pressure to produce one new thing a day I finally got round to finishing one of them.
These are a pair of 1930s/1940s ones designed to work with a crystal radio. They have been fitted with a new custom cable and foam pads. The internals have been swapped out for those found in the sennheiser HD201 – so not the best but a good proof of concept.
We have quite a few different models of a similar size so if I run out of “thing of the day” ideas I may make another one only with better drivers and pads
A pair of 1930s headphones modified with new drivers with a steampunk look
They don’t sound as good as I hoped but with a bit of tweaking and tuning I am pretty certain we can give them sound quality to match their looks. They do have quite a cool vintage, almost steampunk look.
If you would like something like this once we have perfected the process just pop us an email and we can put you on the list
J
Thing of the day
We have set our selves the challenge of coming up with one creative thing a day. A product, invention or piece of art every day for a month and then blog about it. Unfortunately we got so carried away coming up with things that I forgot to add the first two days to the blog.. LOLs
So to catch up
Day one
To start off …. We had this adapter. It converts a balanced XLR cable for a PONO or Sony PHA-3 to fit the balanced output from an astell and kern AK240. I know only a handful of people in the world would need this but we are all about niche products
An adapter to plug a pono balanced XLR cable into and AK240
Day Two
For day to we had this lovely solid oak skateboard deck made by our inhouse chippie Chris. We were going to spray it but it is too nice just the way it is so we will be spraying a different one in the future
a skateboard deck made from solid oak
Day Three
And to catch up …. Day three is this piece of art. While emptying out the airbrushes I got a bit board and started coloring in and doodling on the exposed brickwork by the spraybooth. I give you brick dreams
Brick dreams