Heya everyone, thanks for your suggestions and comments. I'm about to check out The Great Grado Experiment, which looks really interesting - Walnut seems to come out of it highly regarded in the first review, which is good because woods seem harder to come by in England than in the USA, but...

Hi everyone. About a year ago I purchased some mahogany cups and magnum v5 drivers from turbulent labs, as well as some nice cable from toxic cables, and set about modding my grados (sr80s). Since then I've been thinking about the mahogany cups and would love to spend some time making my own...

Hi everyone, I just bought a length of 26AWG cryo treated 7N copper wire from Toxic Cables, as part of a project to rebuild my grado sr80s from the ground up (aluminium, leather, mahogany - a very enjoyable project so far).   So I'm looking to braid the cables - 4 cables coming out of the...

I'd be quite interested to see what you come up with if you make your own. I've been playing around with some memory foam trying to get a good pair of pads, but its not easy unless you have the right sort of equipment for cutting it. But where's the fun in just buying stuff in? I'm rebuilding my...

Thanks, I guess you're right about pads being the best place to start experimenting. I must confess though I've just ordered some mahogany cups from headphone lounge as they look fantastic.   Talking about experimenting with pads though, has anyone ever tried getting some of that memory foam...

hmm thanks for the warning. I've got L cush pads at the moment, they're a bit uncomfortable over long periods though. G cush would be an expensive mistake though if they ruined the sound. Maybe I make all the other mods on them that I want to do and leave the decision about the pads until...

Quote:       Those are the nicest headphones I've ever seen. I have a pair of grado SR80 which I want to mod in a very similar way to yours. I kind of want the g cushion earpads too but they're around £55 in the UK (and the much cheaper US sellers aren't allowed to sell...