These headphones are amazing right out of the box. I just always want more. From my listening notes, removing the grill cloth with stock pads is a downgrade. If you add ZMF Ori Pads though, it's an upgrade.

Beau, If I had to guess I'd say at this pricepoint and given the variety of small build issues people are seeing, I'd say it's possible that there's a difference in various sets of cans. That said, I did try the perf pads on a couple audio technica cans that use velour, and I found they threw a...

Haha, I don't know if I'd bother over .05cm. It CAN'T be a substantial difference

Ok, just did the foam setup. Hobby Lobby only had 0.45 cm thickness so I used one layer of that. How does it sound? Well, awesome. It sounds awesome. I was extremely skeptical this would have any effect at all, let alone one this significant. However, I have to pretty strongly disagree with...

What foam did you use? Do you think different materials in that part of the pad would have different acoustic properties?

What's the foam material that folks are using? I would say every mod I've done on these so far has been a side-grade from stock, at best. Original Focus-a pads with Dust filter on : Best overall sound. Lots of Bass impact, a decent amount of air and a near perfect amount of mid range drive to...