When I got my LCD-2 rev. 1, it still had the bare spring steel headband with glued-on exposed foam. I found it too tight. My solution was to wrap the headband over my thigh, bending it completely the opposite way a couple of times. This sounds drastic and any other headband would surely break by doing this, however spring steel does not break and simply bends back, merely losing a bit of it's tension. As far as I know the new leather headband still contains the spring steel inside.