Dude you’re overthinking it.. like I said, when it’s on the hook, it will be the metal band that is taking the weight not the fabric. Do you own the APM? Just hold it up with your fingers across the band…
The fabric curves and so it’s resting lower than the headband rods on the two sides of the mesh. The whole idea is that it presses against your head and creates a sort of cushion.
The thing is that when you hang the headphone on a hook, there are two key differences from when you’re wearing it on your head:
1. Your head is much larger than a hook, meaning the pressure is spread across the entire headband rather than just one narrow spot where the hook touches it.
2. When you’re wearing the headphone, there’s a reasonable clamping force, meaning the area around your ears is taking some of the pressure and thus reducing the pressure on the headband.
Basically, instead of ~400 grams being spread out over your ears and across the entire headband, hanging the headphone from a hook would mean the entire ~400 grams is being held up by one narrow patch of the headband mesh. So I’m wondering if that would damage the mesh over time.