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High-end Headphones Fixed with High-end CNC Machine

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Warranty? We don’t need no stinking warranty! We’re hackers, and if you have access to a multi-million dollar CNC machine and 3D CAM software, you mill your own headphone replacement parts rather than accept a free handout from a manufacturer.

The headphones in question, Grado SR325s, are hand-built, high-end audiophile headphones, but [Huibert van Egmond] found that the gimbal holding the cups to the headband were loosening and falling out. He replicated the design of the original gimbal in CAM, generated the numeric code, and let his enormous Bridgeport milling machine loose on a big block of aluminum. The part …read more

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Noise Cancelling Speech Recogntion

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If you are like us, you’ll read a bit more and smack your forehead. Amazon recently filed a patent. That isn’t really news, per se–they file lots of patents, including ones that cover clicking on a button to order something and taking pictures against white backgrounds (in a very specific way). However, this patent is not only a good idea, but one we were surprised didn’t arise out of the hacker community.

There can’t be an invention without a problem and the problem this one solves is a common one: While wearing noise cancelling headphones, you can’t hear things …read more

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Ask Hackaday: Does Apple Know Jack About Headphones?

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If you’ve watched the tech news these last few months, you probably have noticed the rumors that Apple is expected to dump the headphone jack on the upcoming iPhone 7. They’re not alone either. On the Android side, Motorola has announced the Moto Z will not have a jack. Chinese manufacturer LeEco has introduced several new phones sans phone jack. So what does this mean for all of us?

This isn’t the first time a cell phone company has tried to design out the headphone jack. Anyone remember HTC’s extUSB, which was used on the Android G1? Nokia tried it …read more

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Hi-Fi Gear That’ll Turn Your Workspace Into Carnegie Hall

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You get most of your music appreciation in while you’re on the clock. Turn your workstation into Carnegie Hall with this hi-fi gear. The post Hi-Fi Gear That’ll Turn Your Workspace Into Carnegie Hall appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Hi-Fi Gear That’ll Turn Your Workspace Into Carnegie Hall→