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so after a long journey of pad swapping to find a pad that will fit these and make them more comfortable without destroying the sound completely, I've settled on the hifiman leather (actually pleather) pads. These pads are more firm with a much wider inner circle and a tiny bit thicker. These seem to seal leakage better and make the headphones a tiny bit bassier and is much better vs something like the brainwavz pad which sacrifices the sound completely (granted they are more comfortable). I'd say if your problem is just that your ears don't fit the stock pads but you still need something that won't leak all over the place, the hifiman pleather would be the replacement to get. They come with plastic tabs installed that you can just pull out without any effort.
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As for the headphones themselves, I think some people are being too unrealistic about this. Yes the headphones may not do well in the $300 market, but in the $120 market for a closed back set, these compete pretty well. I mean seriously, for $120, if you want a closed back set that isn't v-shaped and still has a decent soundstage, what would you suggest that would be superior to these in terms of sound, build quality, etc? Certainly not the M50x or the DT770. Sure you can get an open back set that's better for the price, but that's a whole 'nother beast. Closed backs have always been a compromise suited for public use (typically soundstage as the most noticeable deficiency) and these do soundstage really well for a closed back pair and have a low impedance/high sensitivity so they don't require an external amp. On top of that, these have a solid build and aren't heavily biased in one direction in terms of sound signature, so they are well suited for recording purposes, hence why these are marketed as studio headphones (this is also the reason for the long cable). Whether these are actually used in a ton of recording studios is a different discussion and isn't really relevant to what these were built and marketed for. For those of you thinking that because these are $120, they can't possibly belong in a recording studio, what do you actually see in these recording studios then? I highly doubt most recording studios, especially smaller ones, just have $1000 headphones lying there for artists to record with. Those types of headphones are really targeted at consumers more than studios or artists trying to record.
Oct 17, 2016
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