I get this. Personally I have to find these things out for myself. I recently bought the Elite pads for my Empy. They are not quite right. The bass loses a lot of its signature Empy character. The weaker clamp force is also not ideal.
A friend of mine on this thread bought the Empy leather pads for his Elite and feels the same. We’ve agreed to swop with each other so we’ll each have a spare set of pads in that case.
I guess it’s a case of nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The Elite has a shorter leather headband to compensate for the thinner hybrid pad, so using the hybrid pad on Empyrean definitely reduces the clamping force. Likewise, using the Empyrean leather pad on Elite will increase the clamping force marginally, this is similar to pushing the earcup towards your ear, it will change the tonality slightly, and a little more bass if I remember it correctly ( I tried this a long time ago, ...)
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