Well as a last resort you can always ship the Conposer to AA and let them replace it
I don’t know what’s the problem with glue. It just looks beautiful if you ask me. AA made a very very good glue foam. just a piece of art.
I wish they could have achieved the same sound without this horrible glued piece of foam, such as with a passive filter. Or at least made it part of the earpads so that it can be replaced easily.
I mean for starters it makes the earpads feel more shallow which is not comfortable for people with big ears.
Secondly, sooner or later it will need to be replaced, especially since it can contact some people's ears. For example, Beyerdynamic puts in a new foam disk with a new set of earpads because the old one usuall wears off along with the old pads.
Look at all those classic vintage headphones, such as the AKG K1000, Sony R10 and some others. The deterioration of the foam is one of the main problems with them. And for such headphones as the Composer, you kind of expect for them to work flawlessly for years or even decades, probably also becoming classic some time.
Maybe they will get rid of it in the Composer V2 some day. It would be nice.
Certainly you can. But only if they have spare parts and/or want to repair it. But usually companies run out of spare parts quite quickly. For example, most of them were not available for the AKG K1000 only 5 years after the end of production.
I hope so too. It sure will need replacement at some point down the road, and spare parts won’t be available forever. But of course the same goes for the pads… all foam will eventually break down
I wish they could have achieved the same sound without this horrible glued piece of foam, such as with a passive filter. Or at least made it part of the earpads so that it can be replaced easily.
I mean for starters it makes the earpads feel more shallow which is not comfortable for people with big ears.
Secondly, sooner or later it will need to be replaced, especially since it can contact some people's ears. For example, Beyerdynamic puts in a new foam disk with a new set of earpads because the old one usuall wears off along with the old pads.
Look at all those classic vintage headphones, such as the AKG K1000, Sony R10 and some others. The deterioration of the foam is one of the main problems with them. And for such headphones as the Composer, you kind of expect for them to work flawlessly for years or even decades, probably also becoming classic some time.
Maybe they will get rid of it in the Composer V2 some day. It would be nice.
I have now tried it carefully, the foam seems to have stuck. I don't want to try any more, otherwise I'll damage it.
Oh it is beautiful like a nice cream cake sandwich until it's beautiful no more with accumulated/stuck dust (gunk?) and any other particles and white foam turning yellow... then what? Some people don't mind and some do.
This was the spare parts kit for the X65
Who knows, maybe there will be something like that for the composer too
NOMAX
PS. Don't worry...I'm always here
lol
I wish they could have achieved the same sound without this horrible glued piece of foam, such as with a passive filter. Or at least made it part of the earpads so that it can be replaced easily.
I mean for starters it makes the earpads feel more shallow which is not comfortable for people with big ears.
Secondly, sooner or later it will need to be replaced, especially since it can contact some people's ears. For example, Beyerdynamic puts in a new foam disk with a new set of earpads because the old one usuall wears off along with the old pads.
Look at all those classic vintage headphones, such as the AKG K1000, Sony R10 and some others. The deterioration of the foam is one of the main problems with them. And for such headphones as the Composer, you kind of expect for them to work flawlessly for years or even decades, probably also becoming classic some time.
Maybe they will get rid of it in the Composer V2 some day. It would be nice.
Thats some DIY level janky headphone design. Why would you design your driver to require such a thick piece of front damping to achieve the desired tonal response - apparently still too bright even with that thick of front damping.
Thanks, that's reassuring.This was the spare parts kit for the X65
Who knows, maybe there will be something like that for the composer too
NOMAX
PS. Don't worry...I'm always here
I’d rather think they had late stage changes to the sound signature.lol
Well, slapping a thick piece of foam in front of the driver is not how most manufacturers do things. It’s either a lack of skill in designing driver with desired tonal response, too cheap to scrap the bad drivers and reorder drivers with the correct tonal response or they got some OEM Chinese drivers with limited customization of the actual driver response. Regardless thar was a bad design.
