CustomCans.co.uk Custom Headphone Blog

Coming soon ;)

JFunk — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:08:03 +0000

We should be getting our hands on the Beyerdynamic range of headphones. I will try to make some dismantling vids and try out some mods. We should be getting the DT 1350 the DT 770 and the DT100 in and hope to start supplying customised headphones to studios and music professional

Rasta Music Sennheiser HD25-1 II

JFunk — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:01:42 +0000

Here are some more custom Sennheiser HD25-1 II – These were quite tricky to do as you can imagine as there is quite a lot of detail. It was quite fun though as we got to try out a new technique.

The texture in the background Rasta Flag was done by painting the headphones jet black then clearcoating it. We then sprayed a wet coat of bright white and then dabbed it off with a scrunched up plastic bag to leave a black and white random texture. Then we sprayed the flag over the top using transparent colours so the texture showed through. It was the first time we tried this and it worked out really well.

New Girl DJ mini site

JFunk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:47:09 +0000

We think that Girl DJs are a little left out with most of the top pro DJ headphones being quite masculine looking. We can obviously help with that and are working on a mini site for people who want sexy headphones that can match your outfit

Check it out and let us know want you think

http://customcans.co.uk/girl/

https://www.facebook.com/customcans

3 Custom pairs for Peter Lutz

JFunk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:01:43 +0000

Well… Peter Luts ( http://www.peterluts.com/#/home ) has been super greedy and commissioned 3 custom pairs of Sennheiser HD25-1 . I really like the design and colour scheme on these. The finished models also had a blue cable to match the blue Adidas pads on them

New Audiophile cable for the HD650 HD600 HD580 HD414 HD25sp and many more HD range headphones

JFunk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:52:38 +0000

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-5m-Sennheiser-HD650-HD600-silver-plated-OFC-copper-cable-Cardas-HD580-HD414-/130678552864?pt=UK_AudioVisualElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Headphones&hash=item1e6d0c7920#ht_1733wt_1396

The cable is made from teflon coated SPC silver plated OFC copper shielded with conductive nano carbon infused monofilament braid. They use cardas HPSC connectors and a raen / neutrik straight 3.5mm ( 1/8″ ) but you can have different jack options if requited like 1/4″ , XLR or any other standard connector.

We have endeavoured to make sure this cable gives the best and cleanest signal possible for a sensible price and have had a lot of really good feedback about our cables.

Here comes the science bit

Silver Plated OFC cable to decreases resistance and give more detail vs standard copper

Teflon dielectric coating to help stop crosstalk between left and right channels

Litz braided by hand from the jack to the Y split and then twisted pair to the HPSC connectors  to further reduce crosstalk and inductance without straining the cable during production

Soldered with silver solder - To keep the signal path as clean as possible. The cable is soldered directly to the Cardas HPSC connectors rather than splicing on the original sennheiser connectors which is done on some of the cheaper ones on ebay.

Rhodium plated HPSC connectors - this stops corrosion, gives a great connection and rhodium is much harder than gold so less likely to ware off. 

Gold plated solid brass jack for quality and durability

Carbon infused mono-filament shielding end to end to screen out RFI and EMI interference and because it sounds cool   This stops radio and magnetic interference from other electrical items and things like mobile phones

UV LED Custom Pioneer HDJ-2000 Pro DJ Headphones

JFunk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:36:39 +0000

Here are some fun ones we have recently finished. They have a ring of super bright UV LEDs around the earcup with laser cut blue plastic to cove them up they cost more than I thought to make as the laser cut bits cost £20 to get made but the effect is really good.

White Leatherette Sennheiser HD25-1 ear pads and head pads

JFunk — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:31:53 +0000

We have been working on this for about 6 months and they are nearly ready to go. For a couple of years we have been selling coloured velour pads for the HD25 and they have been really popular but a lot of people like the extra isolation offered by the plether / synthetic leather pads. We have been working with another headphone manufacturer to make some custom coloured synthetic leather pads for the HD25. Finally we have got the final pre production sample through.

We have now ordered 1000 to be made and should have them in about a month

Sennheiser Masters of sound Microphone

JFunk — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:32:08 +0000

Here is the result of a bit of an experiment. A while ago sennheiser were kind enough to lend us a microphone to try airbrushing. To be honest the hardest bit was getting the thing apart without damaging it.
I gave it several coats of glow in the dark aqua then did the design over that so the glow shows through in the bits that were masked off

This months batch of custom headphones

JFunk — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:09:39 +0000

These were acustom pair made for Labrinth for sennheiser’s masters of sound promo

This was just for fun

UV Reactive Red HD25-1 with Head torch

JFunk — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:50:23 +0000

These have been done with the new UV red paint we had in. They glow v-brightly under UV Blacklight – ideal for standing out on stage. They also have one of our new HD25 Head Torches and UV red cable. They are for sale on eBay if you fancy them