$60 FOR HD650 EARPADS?

start your own little earpad business.

Tools and know how are expensive. 

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Originally Posted by KuKuBuKu 

I've been thinking of replacing them... good god! 60 dollars for foam and velour? I could make these for cents if I had the tools and knew how! 

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Originally Posted by ClassicThunder 

Tools and know how are expensive. 

 

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Originally Posted by KuKuBuKu 

I've been thinking of replacing them... good god! 60 dollars for foam and velour? I could make these for cents if I had the tools and knew how! 

 

they're overcharging by a whole lot IMHO. jmoney can offer lambskin earpads for denon's for $80, now i don't know how much leather costs compared to velour (a fabric) but i would imagine the leather is much costlier

Whoa I read the title as $60 for HD650.

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Originally Posted by Trysaeder 

Whoa I read the title as $60 for HD650.

LOL... amazon has a HF2 for $99.99  

Sennheiser USA has them for $44.44 + shipping in their online parts and accessories store.

Still more expensive than I think they are worth on a purely parts and materials and manufacturing basis.  But what are you gonna do when the ear pads on your $400 headphone are worn thin and needing to be replaced?

Sennheiser isn't the worst offender.  Their replacement parts tend to be more reasonably priced (and at least available) than some other headphone companies.  Sony?  Denon?

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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich 

Sennheiser USA has them for $44.44 + shipping in their online parts and accessories store.

 

Still more expensive than I think they are worth on a purely parts and materials and manufacturing basis.  But what are you gonna do when the ear pads on your $400 headphone are worn thin and needing to be replaced?

 

Sennheiser isn't the worst offender.  Their replacement parts tend to be more reasonably priced (and at least available) than some other headphone companies.  Sony?  Denon?

or ultrasone...wonder how much it costs to replace earpads for the edition 10...

they must have diamond dust embedded into the velour fabric and be crafted by gifted midgets of the unicorn kingdom to cost that much for pads.

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Originally Posted by RexAeterna 

they must have diamond dust embedded into the velour fabric and be crafted by gifted midgets of the unicorn kingdom to cost that much for pads.

hey!...my relative works there...and no, it's cubic zirconia

...$60 isn't that terrible in the pad world... That's a pair right? $60 doesn't even pay for one O2 pad...which is why I'm bothering to make my own pads for the fauxpants I'm making.

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Originally Posted by KuKuBuKu 

O2 is different. Those are some fine leather pads...HD650 pads are made of velour and foam...

Pleather. Nice pleather though, supposedly. Again, tooling is expensive, and there's the fact that you pretty much have to get them, so they can basically charge anything they want and get away with it.

There is something so alluring to a brand new HD650 pad.  Maybe it's the fluffyness to it but they look and feel so damn comfortable when they're fresh outta the box.