Well this thread seems mostly dead... but we'll try it here anyways.
Has anyone done blind listening tests on this mod? A lot of people are saying they sound better, but it's pretty well known that putting effort into something will make you value it more, even if it's not any better (e.g. identical wine with a higher price tag will seem to taste better, frat pledges who go through a harder initiation like their frat better than those who go through a weaker initiation even if it's the same frat, etc.) I want to mod my 990 and my two 603S's, and I probably will either way just for the heck of it, but I'm wondering how much of a difference there really is.
I'm not looking for "Yeah, I modded mine and listened to it back to back, and I could totally hear a difference." I'm looking for "I recorded a pre-mod and post-mod file, gave them to ten different sound engineers, and nine of them said the modded mic file sounded better" or something like that. On one of the other threads here there was something about stock 990's used with a modded ART and a non-modded ART, with sound files posted... and most people picked the non-modded as sounding better (though that may have been other issues apparently).
Like I said, I'm probably going to do the mod either way, for the experience (it'll be my first mod other than taking the inner grills out of my 990) and because it'll be fun and something I can brag about... I'm just curious how much the difference actually is.
I'll probably post some pictures when I do the mods... waiting for the caps now. (I ordered some before and got the wrong part... they were gigantic. Which sucks because they cost five times as much as the ones I actually needed.) But for now here's some pictures of the 990 grill: Album. The outer grill alone seems pretty sturdy to me. I pulled off a little bit on the top of the outer grill (it only separated less than 1/16" from where it was supposed to be) when pulling out the inner two, but a little pushing back in made it unnoticeable.
Has anyone done blind listening tests on this mod? A lot of people are saying they sound better, but it's pretty well known that putting effort into something will make you value it more, even if it's not any better (e.g. identical wine with a higher price tag will seem to taste better, frat pledges who go through a harder initiation like their frat better than those who go through a weaker initiation even if it's the same frat, etc.) I want to mod my 990 and my two 603S's, and I probably will either way just for the heck of it, but I'm wondering how much of a difference there really is.
I'm not looking for "Yeah, I modded mine and listened to it back to back, and I could totally hear a difference." I'm looking for "I recorded a pre-mod and post-mod file, gave them to ten different sound engineers, and nine of them said the modded mic file sounded better" or something like that. On one of the other threads here there was something about stock 990's used with a modded ART and a non-modded ART, with sound files posted... and most people picked the non-modded as sounding better (though that may have been other issues apparently).
Like I said, I'm probably going to do the mod either way, for the experience (it'll be my first mod other than taking the inner grills out of my 990) and because it'll be fun and something I can brag about... I'm just curious how much the difference actually is.
I'll probably post some pictures when I do the mods... waiting for the caps now. (I ordered some before and got the wrong part... they were gigantic. Which sucks because they cost five times as much as the ones I actually needed.) But for now here's some pictures of the 990 grill: Album. The outer grill alone seems pretty sturdy to me. I pulled off a little bit on the top of the outer grill (it only separated less than 1/16" from where it was supposed to be) when pulling out the inner two, but a little pushing back in made it unnoticeable.
