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plmon24 t1_j5xy3h0 wrote

Don't want to open my DT880 again to double-check, but I read about a bunch of dampening material on the driver inside that the DT990 didn't have.

I don't specifically recall if I removed any white padding, but I did remove a lot of those dampening materials. I felt the DT880 sounded overly dampened to get its more neutral tonality. Similar to how Dan Clark's Aeon Flow can tame the treble with the felt filters, but it crushes detail in the process.

Removing the dampening materials made it sound in-between a DT880 and 990. Not quite as bright as the 990 and a bit more linear bass response than the 990's big midbass hump. Less "soft-sounding" than the 880.

However, I didn't feel like the soundstage changed a whole lot, not as big as the 990.

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Kiiran_B OP t1_j5y3nua wrote

Interesting, Joshua Velour describes the 880s as having a kind of 'globe' of sound while using them, and I agree with him. Just wondered if there was a way to alleviate that.

I love my 880s, just wish they had a wider soundstage (I think I'm using the correct terminology, I'm a novice in this field).

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