Fake ATH-ESW-9? (56K warning!) - Page 7

They come off easy enough. You can pull carefully along the edge of where the material goes under the hard part that is keeping it in place. I found that by grabbing along the stitching (closer to the headphone housing) it was fairly easy. Just work your way around, carefully pulling material free. The material that the pads are made of does stretch some but could be torn if you try it to quick or are impatient. To put back in place just repeat the process, pushing it back in place and stretching some if you need to.

Hope this helps.

Let us know what happened. thanks

Er... so which is it?

Copper - FAKE
Bluish coil - real deal (mentioned on page two or three of this thread)

This has since been verified by me as well, got a fake, in the process of being refunded, on ebay - had the copper inner coil.
Bought an authentic one from authorized seller, had the bluish coil.


Hope this helps.

^ That only applies to the ESW9's right?

GooWiz, did you take apart your ESW10's? lol

ESW9's but I can assume that it may apply for the ESW10's.

Have to wait until somebody lands a fake and ask them to take off the pad. My assumption is that the copper is a cheaper component.

I will let you guys know tomorrow.

I kinda tried to take the pad off gently, it didn't really budge so I wussed out and stopped lol. But if I look in by shining light, they look copper... But these look like the REAL DEAL. I mean the wood can't be fake, unless... the fakes use real laquered wood...
But then again, aren't the ESW10 driver's completely remade from the ESW9?

Just curious, why would copper necessarily mean a cheaper component? I may be wrong, but there are high quality copper coils...

Audio-Technica ATH-ESW9 dynamic headphone with leather - (eBay.ca item 230334662579 end time 04-Apr-09 01:00:31 EDT)

too good to be true as well?

Just an assumption on my part. Since the fakes, both the one mentioned at the beginning of this thread, and the one I got from ebay had copper.
I'm not sure what the bluish coil is, maybe that is sometime of high quality copper material - that is not copper tinted?

Of course, when the pirates figure out that the coils are the giveaways they will figure out a way to make the coils look bluish in color!

With only 5 feeback, I certianly wouldn't risk it! I got burned with a seller with almost 100 feedback on ebay US, granted he is in the process of refunding me (his funds have yet to clear on paypal).

If unsure, find another ESW10 owner and ask to compare. If they are the same than likely not fakes. If different than one could be a fake...

They are very likely to be fake.
The headphones he sells are all popular counterfiet targets (ES7 ,Bose IE, and that DJ phones) I wounldn't bother.

that pic looks absolutely spot on, they aren't fakes, at least, thats a pic of a legit box and the headphones look legit too, albeit no real detail other than the bump on the metal frame where the cable enters the cups. Even has the three little patches at the bottom of the box that are slightly scored to ease the bending of the edge of the box.