My other half's AD700's were delivered today....
as she is otherwise occupied I thought I would give them a try....
My first impression was that the fit was all wrong... pressure at the bottom of the earpad, no pressure at the top...
I feel like it should have even pressure all around.. but on the other hand I have to assume that this is how they are supposed to fit!
After all they are an open headphone - maybe this is AT's version of a Jecklin float type setup ???
Cursory experiments with pressuring the pads into various positions seems to indicate that they could sound better (to my ears with only 5 min listening!) with even all round ear pressure... which would best be achieved by shortening the 2 bars above rather than bending anything... Maybe what we should be asking AT for is a range of optional bar lengths.... so the phones could be properly fitted!
Modding is of course off bounds for me as these are not my phones.... but they do sound good