I spent all weekend with these Kinden, trying out several different pads, and I keep coming back to the Senitek cloth pads. It's interesting because I have been trying to find the right headphones for these pads. They are comfortable and, they look good on pretty much every headphone that I put them on, but they never sounded quite right on anything.
These Kindens have an unusual mid forward emphasis, unlike all my other headphones. They really don't sound like anything else I and own. There's plenty of bass, even a touch of sub-bass..The mids are very present and emphasized and the treble seems to roll off just slightly at the other end. It's not a V shape, definitely, and it's not even a slight U...guitars, vocals, drums are all placed front and center. It takes some getting used to.