ugh. i just spent the last several days trying to figure out what the factors were around certain tracks buzzing only on the laptop, to realize they buzzed out of the pc, now, too - because the buzz is coming from the headphones. autechre and htda and even asmz are also buzzing, albeit at different levels. it's definitely the phones.

these are my beloved phones that i've had since i was a kid and that i just replaced the cord on. and was very excited about having in working order again...

on the one hand, i seem to recall them buzzing like this in the past. yet, they weren't doing this recently up until this week. it sounds like i blew a speaker and i'm sort of blaming myself for it. i was really blaring them.

there's an off chance it could be dirty, but i'm not really sure what to do if the speaker is actually blown. that's twice, now, that i've run up against these headphones being out of order. but i don't have $800 to blow on a pair of phones that are comparable. i don't even have $300 to blow on a downgrade.

the only other pair i have to mix on are a pair of "noise-cancelling" phones that designed for ipods, and they're just too synthetic to get a useful signal from. they're just not useful for this purpose. unfortunately, my previous backups (aiwas) seem to have gotten damaged in the move.

i'm going to try and clean them and let them sit for the night and go from there. it seems bad, though...

even blaring them is...i blared them for years...

i'm wondering if the cord had too strong a signal for the speakers, a different impedance. these phones are 20+ years old, the cord is for newer models. i used the cord support told me to use, but that doesn't really say much..