rstark18
New Head-Fier
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I try my best to explain this. When I first got my ATH-M50's they sounded nice and what I expected. Over the few months that I've had them I noticed the punchy bass seemed less pronounced and the highs seem more pronounced (which these absolutely don't need). The sound was actually starting to get a slightly fatiguing.
A week or two ago a fitted a pair or cut socks as covers so they wouldn't get hot. An inadvertent benefit to this was that it seemed to squeeze the earpad cushions and make them a little puffier. This immediately seemed to fix the bass/high problem and actually seemed to sound better than when I first got them. With a few weeks of use now with the sock covers on, the pads seem to be compressing again and the sound seems to be slowly degrading again
So from my inexperienced analysis, it seems the padding in the earphones are getting compressed with use and it is affecting the sound quality for the worse. Has anyone else experienced this? What should I do about it?
A week or two ago a fitted a pair or cut socks as covers so they wouldn't get hot. An inadvertent benefit to this was that it seemed to squeeze the earpad cushions and make them a little puffier. This immediately seemed to fix the bass/high problem and actually seemed to sound better than when I first got them. With a few weeks of use now with the sock covers on, the pads seem to be compressing again and the sound seems to be slowly degrading again
So from my inexperienced analysis, it seems the padding in the earphones are getting compressed with use and it is affecting the sound quality for the worse. Has anyone else experienced this? What should I do about it?