DOnt know about the m100 and the tires but i tried 500 tired on the lp2, and though comfy (relative to XL pads) they sounded very poor.
Its possible they sound ok with m100, but just a heads up. The XL pads can stretch out a bit , and when new are firm and ok. I wasn't happy the fatness was gone so quick. One of the reasons i didn't go to m100 after lp2 died. They should have made some sheepskins with slightly bigger hole!
It just looks so.. manly though! haha .. yeah I also was thinking of trying Dekoni's A-T M50x sheepskin replacements, although they are like $10 more than the hm5 sheepskins.. they are a bit smaller than the hm5 pads, time will tell, but I will eventually get pads and try this.
Jerry, if you do this let us know how your experience was!
Actually SHAMuuu did u notice an increase of soundtsage like the xl pads can do?
Also Jerryberry try cutting a piece of ethernet cable and stuffing it under the pads, several people found comfort success with that fix
Edit: Devodonaldson would you mind providing him the instruction on doing such, i havent officially needed to try this yet. I know its simple but dont wanna mislead in any way.
Shame for this too... , I think I can replace this part by myself but the distributor in my country said they can't import only this part. So I have to wear this in public. God damn.
I had a recent request of V-Moda to purchase replacement parts and was also denied. The customer service was very poor. For a set of $250 headphones they should be capable of selling the small plastic parts that I need to put the headphones back in service. Both the customer service rep and the customer service manager really could care less less. So... "Never V-Moda Again"! I advise against this product because once the warranty is up they do not appreciate the customer any longer.
V-MODA sent me a brand-new XS after my 3-year old, meaning 1-year over the 2- year warranty period, XS developed a short on the right driver. All I did was ask for a repair estimate.
Their reply?
"We don't charge for repairs. Send them in."
When I sent them in there were a pair of custom green shields I didn't remove because I thought they were simply going to repair my defective unit and send it back.
11 days later a new, unopened pair arrived in my mailbox and alongside them, a new pair of green custom shields.
Other things they've replaced for free:
2 Speakeasy cables
1 missing M-100 V-Cork
1 M-100 with a cracked wing plate
Maybe they can't or won't come through on all issues, buy they have treated me well as a customer for going on 5 years. In my experience only Amazon has rivaled that kind of customer service.
V-MODA sent me a brand-new XS after my 3-year old, meaning 1-year over the 2- year warranty period, XS developed a short on the right driver. All I did was ask for a repair estimate.
Their reply?
"We don't charge for repairs. Send them in."
When I sent them in there were a pair of custom green shields I didn't remove because I thought they were simply going to repair my defective unit and send it back.
11 days later a new, unopened pair arrived in my mailbox and alongside them, a new pair of green custom shields.
Other things they've replaced for free:
2 Speakeasy cables
1 missing M-100 V-Cork
1 M-100 with a cracked wing plate
Maybe they can't or won't come through on all issues, buy they have treated me well as a customer for going on 5 years. In my experience only Amazon has rivaled that kind of customer service.
Thanks for the quick reply. I am glad your service was great. Even though I was polite and professional the customer service manager could not do anything. When I asked to speak with someone else they just stopped replying.
Thanks for the quick reply. I am glad your service was great. Even though I was polite and professional the customer service manager could not do anything. When I asked to speak with someone else they just stopped replying.
It may be because the request is for parts that they are unwilling to release into the wild due to patents and the risk of bootlegging. V-MODA is a heavily pirated brand. So much so that they have a page on their website solely for helping customers identify fakes. With the proliferation of 3D scanners and printers copying small parts has never been easier.
Instead of asking for parts have you tried just asking for a repair? I did and got a whole new headphone.
It may be because the request is for parts that they are unwilling to release into the wild due to patents and the risk of bootlegging. V-MODA is a heavily pirated brand. So much so that they have a page on their website solely for helping customers identify fakes. With the proliferation of 3D scanners and printers copying small parts has never been easier.
Instead of asking for parts have you tried just asking for a repair? I did and got a whole new headphone.
Honestly, I didn't think to ask for a repair. I will give that a try. Thanks for the suggestion. I would have thought of that was an option the customer service rep would have offered it. I guess you have to ask.
There are just way too many pages for me to dig through lol, hence why I am just going to post this here, but I am curious as to what would be a good portable amp for these headphones. I primarily use these for my travel kit, as I am always on the go due to my job. The amp I currently use and was given to me by a close friend (FiiO E11) and is the only portable amp I own, I have been digging around and have seen the FiiO A5 and was wondering if it is worth upgrading to that amp versus staying with the E11. Still relatively new to the audiophile world so I am open to any suggestions. The music players I use for when I travel is my iPhone 7 and the Sony Walkman NWZA-17SLV. Thanks!
There are just way too many pages for me to dig through lol, hence why I am just going to post this here, but I am curious as to what would be a good portable amp for these headphones. I primarily use these for my travel kit, as I am always on the go due to my job. The amp I currently use and was given to me by a close friend (FiiO E11) and is the only portable amp I own, I have been digging around and have seen the FiiO A5 and was wondering if it is worth upgrading to that amp versus staying with the E11. Still relatively new to the audiophile world so I am open to any suggestions. The music players I use for when I travel is my iPhone 7 and the Sony Walkman NWZA-17SLV. Thanks!
Because it's something that's going to be portable and on the go all the time I'm trying to spend no more than $250...if it's something worth investing in I'll go $300 tops
That's a great price and if you still have or use an iPhone 5 it's a perfect solution but most people have upgraded to a newer model.
Where the Verza is lacking is no high-res support, a relatively high 10 ohm output impedance and long charging times. For $300 the Oppo HA-2 is slimmer and supports high-res. For cheaper and smaller form factors there are the Dragonfly Black and Red, Shanling Up, Centrance DacPort Slim and the super cheap, though unreviewed, GGMM A1.
The Verza was an amazing product when it debuted 4 years ago, but the market is much more saturated with DACs nowadays and nearly every price range is represented. The M-100 doesn't need much power to drive and what most DACs and amps do IME are they help tighten up the sound and give a little more punch. I feel a powerful amp benefits the M-100 more than a DAC and the market is full of options. The Verza, and I'm saying this as a proud owner of one, isn't worth it anymore.
Thanks for the recommendations, I looked up that Oppo HA-2 and that looks great, I saw that there is also a Oppo HA-2SE for the same price, is that just a newer model or something else entirely. Thanks again everyone for the help!
Just wondering if any fellow bassheads here (who do extreme EQ'ing / sub-bass boosting and amping, as I do) have had any long-term problems with headphone drivers getting blown after a year or two of hardcore basshead use.
The left-side driver on my white-silver pair of M-100s that I got almost two years ago in China...finally gave out this week. The sound on the left side now cuts in and out, and makes a loud popping noise when playing powerful sub-bass through it. Because I alternate between my two pair of M-100s (I have a dual-listening setup for the purpose of listening with a friend), this pair that got blown had about one year net-total of usage.
V-Moda only has a repair / service center in the U.S. and I live in China, so due to a plethora of reasons, I've decided not to ship my blown pair to the U.S. for warranty. The shop I bought it from here in Chongqing has just now sent it off to a headphone service center somewhere in China, and said they'd let me know in a week or two if it can be repaired or not. My guess is that unless they can replace the driver(s) with new M-100 ones, then it's probably unfixable.
The shopkeeper said that new pairs of M-100s were no longer available from their vendors, so I went ahead and ordered a new pair from V-Moda's "Official Flagship Store" in Shanghai on the reputable website TMall. There's a lot of fakes in China (especially with Beats headphones), so I wanted to play it safe. I did enter the serial number of my blown pair into V-Moda's site, though, and it is totally legit and genuine.
So in the near future, it looks like I'll start keeping three pair of M-100s: two for my dual-listening setup, and one as a "spare tire," available for immediate use if a pair gets blown.
Anyway, I've rambled a bit, but am just curious if anyone here has had similar experiences about long-term use...in their adventures in bassheadland.
Well, my first replacement pair of M-100s came yesterday (a white-silver pair). They're totally genuine and legit, and they work great. They have just as much sub-bass sensitivity and good of sound quality as my old matte-black pair does. But actually, they have even-better sound quality because the drivers are brand new, so the sub-bass is tighter than on the old one.
What's strange, though, is that after several hours, I figured out that this new white pair will sound better if I connect the headphone cable to the right side, instead of the left. (You can't choose cable sides on V-Moda's wireless headphones, but you can on M-100s!)
My old black pair has better balance between left and right with the cable connected to the left side (which I've always used), but this new white pair has better balance with the cable on the right side.
Initially, with it connected to the white pair's left side, I found myself setting the balance control on my Rockboxed iPod Classic to 3% to the right, because the left side was playing slightly-but-significantly louder. I don't like using my balance control for this, unless the particular song recording I'm listening to is off-balance. And if I were to do this with my dual-listening setup, then it would cause the other pair of M-100s to be off-balance the other way!
So eventually, I tried moving the cable to the right side, and can now happily set the balance control in Rockbox back to 0% (i.e., centered) where it belongs. Can't notice any side playing louder than the other. Consequently, I also temporarily tried moving the cable on my old black pair to the right side, but that made it sound a little off-balance the other way, as well. So I put it back on the left side on that pair, where it's always been, and it sounds fine.
So, hmmm..........this makes me even-more confident in my choice to buy M-100s over the new CF2Ws!
According to reviews, not only does the M-100 have better sensitivity (including in the sub-bass) than the CF2W, but also, if you play the CFW1 or CF2W in wired mode and it sounds a little bit off-balance, then you can't move the cable to the other side! And if your music player doesn't have a balance control, and/or you try to use it in a dual-listening setup, then......you're screwed.
Anyway, in the package of my new M-100s, there's a warranty repair card from V-Moda's new parent company, Roland of Japan, which has a service center in Shanghai. It lists their Shanghai address, phone number, and e-mail, so it looks like this is the place I'd mail my headphones to in the future to get them repaired under warranty, or to get the post-warranty-50%-off voucher. So the guy from V-Moda customer service who I chatted with via text (on V-Moda's U.S. website)...wasn't 100% correct about V-Moda not having any service centers in China.
Some of the reasons I won't mail my blown pair of M-100s from Chongqing to Los Angeles include...
A. The $50 cost of shipping
B. The Chinese import restriction of $150 USD worth of product(s) into China for individual online shoppers without using an agent
C. V-Moda's U.S. website no longer lists any retailers in China as "authorized" -- not even my local hi-fi shop in Chongqing -- as V-Moda's site specifically mentioned two years ago. My receipt for the genuine pair I bought there in June 2015 is all in the Chinese language, so the service reps in Los Angeles probably wouldn't recognize it, and might not grant me the warranty after all. They'd probably just give me a "50% off" coupon for their U.S.-based online store.
D. I'll be visiting the U.S. this coming June, and will attend the New York spring meetup on the day after arriving in the U.S., where I'll be showing off my dual-listening setup with DiscoProJoe's Rockbox EQ Presets. I need to purchase an additional pair of M-100s at least a few weeks prior to this trip...in order to have a "spare tire" in case a pair gets blown.
Anyway, just thought I'd share the latest happenings with M-100 fans on here. If you plan to attend the New York meetup on Saturday, June 10th, then I'd love to meet you and we can hear each other's equipment. If any of you can bring that two-sided V-shaped headphone cable that SpiderNhan /img/forum/go_quote.gif has talked about, then I'd be curious to give it a try. But, then again, as long as the acoustic balance is less than 2% off-center, then it's not a problem for me, though, and I might not be able to notice it.
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.. yeah I also was thinking of trying Dekoni's A-T M50x sheepskin replacements, although they are like $10 more than the hm5 sheepskins.. they are a bit smaller than the hm5 pads, time will tell, but I will eventually get pads and try this. 
