[uglyjoe0124]

Sounds like there returns and re packaged

 

[JoeDoe]

Sounds like there returns and re packaged

Yep. I've owned several grados, used and new. Never seen or heard of this before for new.

 

[fleasbaby]

  Hey guys could anyone explain why my ps500's (bought new) have 4 holes in the left driver felt but not in the right. Does anyone else have experience with this and if so should I put 4 holes in the other side or leave them be?
 
P.S. I vowed to never mod my ps500's as that is how I broke my sr80i's (lets not talk about that). 

 
I believe Grado does pierce holes in the PS500 felt. Odd they missed one side though. Are you sure that the one side has no holes at all?

 

[a96p]

Unless grado forgot to do both sides but my Hf2 only have either side.does it look as though the cup has been tampered with,ie scratch marks around or on the driver

The cups seem flawless apart from the slight glue that is showing where the wood and metal join

 

[a96p]

Yep. I've owned several grados, used and new. Never seen or heard of this before for new.

Do you know if they are supposed to have the 4 holes in each as standard?

 

[a96p]

   
I believe Grado does pierce holes in the PS500 felt. Odd they missed one side though. Are you sure that the one side has no holes at all?

Im Positive!!! and you can definitely tell at sub 130hz 

 

[uglyjoe0124]

Hold on hold on.now are there holes in the black driver felt or in the White material covering the outside of the driver.
Ive never seen it on the White covering but I know the PS500 have two on each driver felt

 

[a96p]

Hold on hold on.now are there holes in the black driver felt or in the White material covering the outside of the driver.
Ive never seen it on the White covering but I know the PS500 have two on each driver felt

I'm talking about the black felt inside the cups where the left cups felt has 4 holes and the right cups felt has 0

 

[uglyjoe0124]

Send them back

 

[a96p]

Send them back

Will do, now the question is do I get the ps500e's or ps500's and hopefully ill have more luck with them

 

[uglyjoe0124]

Buy them from a shop that way you can try them

 

[fleasbaby]

Im Positive!!! and you can definitely tell at sub 130hz 

...ah...yes, the holes are integral to the bass, so yes, I agree with Joe, back they should go....unless you want to open 'em up and make the holes yourself...muahahaha

 

[tiobilli]

Hello,
I've been looking for a metal BLACK wire mesh to swap for the stocked ones. Do you knwo where can it be bought one like the RS1's ?

 

[xylin6]

has anyone here ever woodied a pair of PS500's? or stripped the powder coated paint from them? I love my PS500e but the right cup has developed numerous freckle like spots where the powder coating has come off as if chipped away.strangely the left cup remains looking new and unaffected,i am not a modder though if i was i would be tempted to remove the cups and have someone sand off the powder finish as to my thinking even a plain flat industrial aluminum finish would be aesthetically preferable to speckled missing dots of paint.
 
Grado have offered to replace the cup free of charge which it looks like is what i'm going to have to do even though i fear the same thing may occur again and i also hate being without my PS500e for who knows how long seeing as how they are so new .i would wonder if i was just clumsy since the spots are only on the right cup but i have seen other people mention similar issues with their PS500e as well as  powder coating on their sr-325e's, also i own other cans with aluminum cups such as the sennheiser amperiors and phillips/o'neil construct which have seen far more use and neither of them have even a single blemish on the aluminum cups/housing  .any thoughts/ideas are welcome and appreciated.
 
edit: i like the look of the jaben aluminum cups but don't want the drivers recessed.
 
here is a picture of a pair of 325e with a similar issue though the right cup on mine have developed even more spots

 

[Maverickmonk]

  has anyone here ever woodied a pair of PS500's? or stripped the powder coated paint from them? I love my PS500e but the right cup has developed numerous freckle like spots where the powder coating has come off as if chipped away.strangely the left cup remains looking new and unaffected,i am not a modder though if i was i would be tempted to remove the cups and have someone sand off the powder finish as to my thinking even a plain flat industrial aluminum finish would be aesthetically preferable to speckled missing dots of paint.
 
Grado have offered to replace the cup free of charge which it looks like is what i'm going to have to do even though i fear the same thing may occur again and i also hate being without my PS500e for who knows how long seeing as how they are so new .i would wonder if i was just clumsy since the spots are only on the right cup but i have seen other people mention similar issues with their PS500e as well as  powder coating on their sr-325e's, also i own other cans with aluminum cups such as the sennheiser amperiors and phillips/o'neil construct which have seen far more use and neither of them have even a single blemish on the aluminum cups/housing  .any thoughts/ideas are welcome and appreciated.
 
edit: i like the look of the jaben aluminum cups but don't want the drivers recessed.
 
here is a picture of a pair of 325e with a similar issue though the right cup on mine have developed even more spots

Get them bead blasted/ media blasted. should give you a nice textured, industrial look that would go well with the metal screens.


Glad to see all the crazy cool mods still coming out. It's been a few years for me, I sold my modded 60's 3 years ago about (see avatar). But now I'm contemplating giving it another go: What's the census? Old school drivers, the new, bigger, e series drivers, or the magnums (turbulent labs?) drivers. Are the turbulent labs drivers the same as rhynos symposium magnum drivers?