RED=Stock, BEIGE= Vegan/Stock damping, BLUE= Vegan With a Perforated Pleather inner ear chamber and a sandwich ring of Creatology foam and felt surrounding the driver opening on the ear side. No rear damping at all. STOCK WF: VEGAN WF: CURRENT MOD WF:

IMHO: Vegans f*ck up bass impact versus Leather/Pleather, full stop. They do create cleaner more defined bass than stock imho, but they def mess with the impact. If you really want slam, I'm inclined to think a leather or alternate pleather pad would be better suited in my listening experiments...

Though seem to reduce the height or the measured orthowall more so than most pads(Vegan included), I just don't like what they do to the HF.

@Tullebukk I have had the older cowhide and Pleather ZMF pads for testing, and they actually are a closer fit to the stock pad than the vegan which is a little TOO large. I didn't find either of them really worth using though. ZMF Cowhide and stock damping. ZMF Pleather and stock damping.

Ordered up some Perforated Pleather for further ear chamber experiments, will post further measurements later this week.

Mostly 2.5mm connectors instead of mmcx, they slapped more stain/sealant on the wood, included a garbage 1/4th adapter.

+1 to this, Audeze knew what it was doing using an adhesive ring to give such a good seal to their pads. I literally didn't even use the rings on my Hifiman cans in the past because they just sound better with an adhesive seal.

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Yup, I am currently using a very early LCD2 leather pad that a friend sent me, and honestly I really really like, unfortunately I'm unsure if the new LCD2 pads would measure or sound the same. RED=Stock, PEACH=Vegan, BLUE=LCD2 leather, YELLOW=LCD2+damping changes.

More/different material in the rearside of the driver will raise/even out the highs. Red=Stock, Purple= HM5 Angled Pleather+Felt ring, Gold= HM5 Angled Pleather+felt ring and additional rear damping.

Stock= Red, Green=HM5 Angled Pleather, Purple= HM5 Angled Pleather with a felt ring.

Orthowalls typically are not audible, I don't actually think the visible orthowall on the measurement is what we are annoyed by I think it's the HUGE spike right before it. Paper towel will not fix this, it's a problem with the stock pad design if you take a look at the response of only changing...

Wait a tick, whats the difference between Green and Blue line? the blue line almost has an invisible spike/dip.

None yet, just raw data dump, The Leather lcd2 and Leather ZMF look interesting enough to play around with, will give impressions when I can.

5.ZMF Pleather with stock driver fabric. 6.ZMF Pleather no fabric 7.ZMF Leather with stock driver fabric. 8. ZMF Leather no fabric 9. HM5 Pleather.

I got a box of pads from friend today, some quick measurements all damped as stock with and without front driver fabric as noted. Stock is always red. 1. Vegan 2.LCD2 Leather 3. Unknown Velour(Beyer?) With stock driver fabric. 4.Unknown Perforated Velour(Beyer?) With stock driver fabric.

Try adding some additional damping material(Paper Towel/napkin/toilet pape)r on the rear side of drive alongside the foam to bring the highs back up a bit. I'm torn on if i want to order the Velour or the Hybrid to measure/try.

The earliest LCD3 used Felt Square+Felt Disc, mid LCD3 before the fazor used felt Square+Foam disc. I have been using felt in a lot of my experiments with damping.

@Terja Pretty much any restrictive/reflective damping on the back wave of the driver is going to lower the stocks mid-range bloat and raise the highs, what you use will effect how much and to a lessor degree which frequency range. Glad you are enjoying it, I cannot personally keep the stock pads...

I keep going back and forth, but my gut says when we elevate treble region on this driver too much it sounds harsh to my ears. I hate the over ripe mids and 4.5khz spike aggravation that the stock pad gives, but I'm not totally in love with the treble presentation or effect on Bass impact(not...

@antdroid what's going on with your V2 measurement? Also please change the smoothing to something reasonable like 1/24th.

WARNING: Do not do this you will void your warranty and it's also prob not worth while and it's a pain in the butt. So....the stock pleather pads inner section is the same size as the vegans.... Stock=Red, Peach=Vegan, Blue= Vegan/pleather hybrid. I'm most likely not going to bother doing the...

The Dekoni and Hifiman velour certainly look promising for different reason to my eye. Thank you for posting more pads.

Quick correction @macky112 , the Angled Pleather HM5 does not smooth out the treble much without more damping than stock. What I found in listening was that seems promising to me is more impact bass and a sense of liveliness in the treble. Which may to due to better sealing and internal...

Quick photo with flash on the HM5 Pleather, the majority of the driver is not covered except the corners at the very top and bottom.