Has anyone made detachable ear pads?

[Svperstar]

There are all kinds of little magnets on Amazon, got me to thinking if you used the right materials you could make magnetic ear pads.......has anyone gone down that route?

 

[Brainiac9000]

No waaay! I was just doing a search earlier this week for little magnets on Amazon too along with metal rings that are the diameter of the Audeze earpads. The idea is to attach the metal rings to the 3m strip on the bottom of the Audeze pads. Then use a 3D printer and create thin plastic rings with small circular slots and embed the little magnets into them and attach the 3D printed rings to the base of the ear cups. Then I should be able to swap between different ear pads that have the metal rings attached to them. It's likely that I'll have to make 3D printed rings for both the ear cup and earpads if I can't find metal rings that are the same diameter as the Audeze earpads. My biggest concern, though, is how the sound signature of the headphones will be impacted by adding these extra parts. So far this is just an idea.

 

[Svperstar]

No waaay! I was just doing a search earlier this week for little magnets on Amazon too along with metal rings that are the diameter of the Audeze earpads. The idea is to attach the metal rings to the 3m strip on the bottom of the Audeze pads. Then use a 3D printer and create thin plastic rings with small circular slots and embed the little magnets into them and attach the 3D printed rings to the base of the ear cups. Then I should be able to swap between different ear pads that have the metal rings attached to them. It's likely that I'll have to make 3D printed rings for both the ear cup and earpads if I can't find metal rings that are the same diameter as the Audeze earpads. My biggest concern, though, is how the sound signature of the headphones will be impacted by adding these extra parts. So far this is just an idea.

If the extra parts aren't too thick shouldn't be audible. Someone else somewhere has to already done this. Basically need a ring that you can stick magnets in at certain intervals. This ring will be glued on. Do something similar on the other side.

I'm listening to Stax headphones with Audeze pads so yeah I get worrying about sound quality

 

[Brainiac9000]

Yeah, I was thinking someone has had to have done this already. I'll have to resume my search. If I find anything, I'll report back.

 

[dunring]

I think it's s weight issue to keep headphones as light as possible. Most times pads last a year or two. It would make pad rolling easier, but Beyerdynamic has the closest thing. On the DT1990/DT1770 there's mounting rings that snap on like a quick connect. The problem is they only include one set of rings, which probably cost 15 cents to make.

 

[Blotto80]

I didn’t have much luck with magnets but that’s probably because I didn’t order thick enough ones so they were relatively weak.

I did have very good with a twist on system, worked well but with constant pad swapping at this stage I was breaking the tabs off the rings a few times a week. Rather than redesigning to be more robust, I sunk in a channel around the circumference of the baffle and put a rim on the pad ring that can just pressure fit in, intent was to use adhesive on it but I got the tolerances close enough that it’s not required. I’m out of town until Tuesday night but if anyone is interested I can post pics/models.

 

[Svperstar]

I didn’t have much luck with magnets but that’s probably because I didn’t order thick enough ones so they were relatively weak.

I did have very good with a twist on system, worked well but with constant pad swapping at this stage I was breaking the tabs off the rings a few times a week. Rather than redesigning to be more robust, I sunk in a channel around the circumference of the baffle and put a rim on the pad ring that can just pressure fit in, intent was to use adhesive on it but I got the tolerances close enough that it’s not required. I’m out of town until Tuesday night but if anyone is interested I can post pics/models.

That would be great if you could post pics

 

[Blotto80]

That would be great if you could post pics

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6752261

Here's some models for both kinds of designs.