After having recently purchased a pair of Grado iGrado's, I soon became annoyed with the lack of clear top end and punchy middle, I tried every easy mod in the book (quarter mod etc), the only trick left to try is a full recable.   First of all, needed to find the right parts for the right...

  Moved from full size headphones section:   The below describes how to modify a pair of AKG K171 studio headphones to give a more full bodied and upfront sound signature.   This mod is pretty easy, but requires some 80mm foam pads (got from China) to replace the exisiting pleather...

There are quite a few online shops in the UK selling a "Koss Portapro-BBC", they look to be standard Portapro's but are all black (no blue/red housing), and a black and white cable.   They are slightly more expensive than the standard Portapro's and have an "enhanced frequency response"...

AKG K171 Ear Cup Mod:   EDIT: Another modification to the K171's 2 posts down.     Having owned a pair of AKG K171's for a few years, I couldn't help but feel that they have more to offer in the sound department, to test this I sought to replace the existing thick foam ear pads with...

I'm looking for a cable to replace the stock mini xlr one that ships with the AKG K171 (and other AKG studio headphones) as an improvement over the stock cable. There seems to be a reasonably priced one at 'Best-Tronics' - the MIC32-XX (although shipping to the UK is fairly expensive )...