I also purchased these same ones for my Hifiman HE-400i and they do fit and sound great (Thanks for the link). They also came with the mounting rings. I do believe they are authentic lambskin. My previous angled pleather ones lasted about 150 hrs before the shell started peeling off.

I can only give you my personal input based on owning a pair of Koss ESP950 and Audeze LCD-2. I own the Koss version, ESP950, same package as the Drop 95x, but with pleather pads and leather case. My Audeze is an LCD-2 (Fazer version w/ vegan pads), not the LCD-2c (non-Fazer). What I prefer...

You can also try different pads. I have the AKG Stock, AKG Velvet (from another series), Brainwavz XL Sheepskin Leather, Branwavz XL Perforated Pleather. I'll be ordering the Branwavz XL Hybrids and I'll report back with my impressions and some pics.

What you could do is go on eBay and find another Seiko with the 8223 movement that is working and have a watch shop swap out the movements. Unless it's the same dial and hands, the watch shop can also swap the dial and hands. On Seiko watches, on the back of the case, the first 4 digits is the...

Completely agree. The few times I almost pulled the trigger on a 2nd hand Rolex I held back since there was no way to tell if the watch had serviced with aftermarket parts, pieced together, etc. Easily viewed parts on the movement can be spotted with a loupe, but what about the mainspring inside...

Entertaining for sure. Though, I came across TickTocking on YT and he does some really nice hands on reviews on expensive watches like DeBethune, Gruebel Forsey, MB&F, Urwerk, as well as Patek, Lange, FP Journe. It's worth checking out some of his vids just for the eye candy alone. I also find...

As of lately, I'm back to wearing my Hamilton GMT Auto as a daily.

I found this a couple years ago locally on CL. Complete impulse purchase. I got a pretty good deal on it. Android Virtuoso Tourbillon. One of the affordable tourbys. So far it's been good, just don't drop it.

I went through several inexpensive units that lasted 6 months to a year, then I went ahead and purchased a Swiss Made "Swiss Kubik". A bit pricey, but well made, quiet and you can program the rotation direction and number of daily rotations. I ran this almost 24/7 for several years. Here's...

You could try to do some similar mods to your HP-2 headphones as they take damping mods fairly well. I had really good results changing the damping on my YH-1s. I basically did the following: I dampened my YH-1 with a disc of 1mm felt behind the drivers and swapped some Australian wool noil...

I think I found the the proper period correct headphone / preamp match. I'm gonna pair it with my 7-tubed Luxman CL-35 Mk3 preamp from around 1977, which took me about 5 years of convincing a friend to sell to me. I happened to be staring at it and forgot it has a pretty good sounding output...

So far I have been enjoying the Fostex T10 the most. I prefer the mids of the T10 out of these 3. It also seems to be cleaner sounding (maybe less resonant casing?). Build quality seems to be better than the Yamahas. Bass and treble are a bit rolled off. As most members posted, the T10 sounds...

After reading several pages on the very long Orthodynamic Roundup post. I decided to purchase a couple vintage orthos. Here's my additions from the past month. Yamaha YH-3, YH-1 and Fostex T10.

That is one awesome looking lamp. It's like an art piece.