For whatever it's worth, my Amazon SR850s that I got today came with these cloth/velour pads. Guess I should have held off ordering the Chinese K240 knockoff pads from eBay. Wonder if they'll be any better than stock.   I guess the lesson is that you generally have no idea what Amazon's...

So I literally moments ago received my Samson SR850 headphones, and I was surprised to see that there were already soft cloth pads installed instead of pleather. Perhaps in all of my reading on various options before purchase I mixed something up, but I thought these were supposed to come with...

  Nice find, thanks. For that price it might be worth the risk of a cheap knockoff from China.   I assume it sounds like I've otherwise found a good fit with the SR850 based on my needs? Thanks all.

Excellent thread. I'm a newbie and have been spending the last couple of days (almost literally) reading. I'm looking for some new headphones and could use some advice. I'm primarily a PC FPS gamer. I've got some Turtle Beach X12s that I use with my Xbox 360 and occasionally connect to my PC...