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Selling my Audeze LCD-3 Fazor headphones. Wonderful sounding headphones in good condition. Included is the hard case, extra headband pad, brand new ear pads from Dekoni, and a 1/4" Canare 4S6 cable. The Dekoni ear pads are the Audio Elite Sheepskin version. Everything is fully functional and...

Selling my Audeze LCD-3 Fazor headphones. Wonderful sounding headphones in good condition. Included is the hard case, extra headband pad, brand new ear pads from Dekoni, and a 1/4" Canare 4S6 cable. The Dekoni ear pads are the Audio Elite Sheepskin version, originally retailed for $70-80...

Yes, sold on another site. I went ahead and updated the listing.

Sennheiser HD 518 Headphone. Comes with the original cable and a 1/4" adapter as pictured. These are in excellent condition, basically like new. They were only used for a couple of hours of evaluation, so the pads are almost unworn. Smoke free environment, etc. Original box is not...

Post updated after requests to see the baffle. I believe this is the "black silk" version of the baffle. The camera is really picking up every speck of dust, but they look pretty clean in person.

I love these headphones, but it's finally time to let them go. These are HD580 Precision headphones, made in Ireland, with HD600 grills and an HD650 cable. They're in good condition, used pretty infrequently in a smoke free home. The pads were replaced a couple of years ago. There's some...

They're very precisely made.  The material is a little bit rough feeling, but I think they have a smooth version that would fix that.  It's almost like high grain sandpaper.  The material doesn't have a "quality" sort of feeling to it, but it's fairly sturdy, a little bit flexible, and there's...

You should take your link down - the lip around the spacer isn't big enough to hold the pads.  You probably should've given these a test run before you encouraged other people to use them.

The pads arrived.  Now I'm having trouble understanding exactly how to do the mod.  I see lots of pictures of the finished process, but unless I'm missing something no one has actually explained, step by step, how to put in the new spacer.   Should the pads be able to fit securely onto the...

Has anyone tried these pads instead?  http://www.amazon.com/Ear-Zonk-Replacement-Headphone-Cushion/dp/B00BW4RWH2/ref=lh_di_t_dup?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A57071PIWN05O   Knock-off GS1000 pads, essentially, at half the price.  The reviews are pretty good though.

I think I might pick a pair up.  It ends up being around $26 for me, which is what I was going to spend on L-cush pads anyway to much less effect.

That's great, this is the sort of thing I've been waiting for.  How is that alumide material?  Does it look nice enough, or do you not even end up seeing it?

Quote: I guess.  All of this is so subjective it's tough to be sure about anything.    I've only compared it to nice open headphones  The 518 feels stuffier than the 580, definitely.  The soundstage is pretty flat.

Quote: I really like your post.  And don't forget that the higher model number may be as much an orange cup as anything else.     In case anyone's interested, I purchased the 558 pads for my 518.  They're about $20 from Sennheiser.  The headphones are a lot more comfortable now (I got...

Quote: The headphones probably aren't going to mind being shorted to ground.  If the amp had a DC offset or something it could cause a nice pop, but that would be a problem with the amp.  You should still turn it down before you do to make sure there isn't a signal going into the phones...

Quote: That makes sense.  It really depends on your output stage.   Remember that due to the design of 1/8" and 1/4" jacks you'll usually short one of the channels to ground when you plug or unplug headphones.  If you do it quickly they're not shorted for very long, and depending on the...

The pads on the 558 and 598 are nicer than the 518.  They're velour, so they should be softer to the touch and also a little less stiff.  I agree that that would be a good modification, and those should be easy to source from Sennheiser and replace.   The driver is the speaker element in the...

Yeah, they're made out of a different material - seems to be cotton with stiffer pads instead of the usual Sennheiser velour stuff.  They're comfortable enough, but not as nice as the others.  I was considering getting the nicer pads from Sennheiser to see if they made a difference.

I wouldn't ruin a pair of headphones like that, personally.  They're designed to have some sort of grill, so removing it will change the way they sound quite a bit.  I don't know if you'll like that sound or not... I'm not going to melt a bunch of plastic on mine to find out.  :)

Well... it'll sound different.  I don't know how it will sound, though.  Removing the grill will probably be pretty difficult, as it's glued at multiple points.

Quote: The HD 518 and HD 600 don't sound that similar, actually.  The drivers are different as well, and as you can see, the drivers perform rather differently in the graphs above.

I recently picked up some very lightly used HD 518s from one of our members in the classifieds section.  They sound good - really good.  So, of course, I figured I would spend a some time taking them apart to see if they could be modded to sound even better.   There aren't a lot of members...

Well, never mind.  I was using the short link that I got from copying the link address in a PM.   Long: http://www.head-fi.org/t/606004/sennheiser-hd-518 Short: http://www.head-fi.org/t/606004   Apparently there's some logic to resolve the short version if you visit in a browser, but...

I'm unable to leave feedback for someone.  I get this error when I submit:   Fatal error: Call to a member function first() on a non-object in /var/www/sites/huddler/releases/c0d4a43960e06730cb9f2e71bb6b59594ce18c6e/v2/system/application/libraries/objects/HuddlerObject.php on line 1414