CaptCanuck
New Head-Fier
Do you mean the plastic ring that comes with the Audioquest pads? From your photo, it looks like you made a cut in the plastic ring, fit it into the existing ear pad slot on the Sines, and then put the pads over top. Is this correct?
I just received my Audioquest pads and want to make sure I’m doing the mod right (check twice, cut once).
Update on my exploration into pad swapping.
Returned the Audioquest pads. The mod suggested would have required me to cut a plastic supporting ring and compress it into a custom adapter ring before supergluing together to hold (and hopefully not gluing them to my headphones). If I messed it up I could have ruined my headphones with the superglue or screwed up the fit so they didn’t work... and then I had some damaged and unreturnable pads.
I debated 3D printing an adaptor ring but decided that the extra effort and cost wasn’t worth it if I could get a much easier pad to mod and had many more positive reviews than the Audioquest.
So I bought the Aurvana.
Honestly, just get them. If you’re even questioning the comfort of the Sines, just do this.
They’re super cheap, took me less that five minutes to put on, were completely reversable, and substantially improved the comfort, and didn’t noticeably degrade the sound.
You will not be dissappointed.