[Arty McGhee]

Those the ones off of eBay?

yes
wang yi fei
sells them
he gives you a long thin strip of velcro
to wrap around the end of the cup
and the donuts slide over an stay put pretty well
works best on wooden cups
greatly improved soundstage and clear deep bass
 
and you get a real princess leia thing goin

 

[fadhlysb]

  What pads are those?

 
i'm guessing those are sony mdrxb series earpads

 

[WilliamLeonhart]

  yes
wang yi fei
sells them
he gives you a long thin strip of velcro
to wrap around the end of the cup
and the donuts slide over an stay put pretty well
works best on wooden cups
greatly improved soundstage and clear deep bass
 
and you get a real princess leia thing goin

Does it have negative effects on mids and trebles?

 

[7keys]

I tried the ear pads from the Sony MDR-500 on my cans but I didn't like what they did to the sound.
 

 

[jellyevan]

does it lose grade sound signature with moding?

 

[7keys]

It seemed to muddle the sound, didn't like it at all.

 

[jellyevan]

man that just lose the whole propose of grado sound. maybe the only mod one can play around is really just the cushions (just saying).

 

[Arty McGhee]

  man that just lose the whole propose of grado sound. maybe the only mod one can play around is really just the cushions (just saying).

 

  It seemed to muddle the sound, didn't like it at all.

had to try it
its a fun sound i think
not an everyday thing 
better for movies than music
i was watching a kdrama with a lot of
dramatic orchestral stuff in the background
sounded awesome.... not for everyone

 

[fadhlysb]

i can tell just by looking at it.. that pleather pads is waaaaaay too bassy for grados

 

 

[7keys]

 

 
 
 
Birds Eye Maple top with Macassar Ebony bottom. 
 
The mind has a thousand eyes
the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
 

 

[TigrisJK]

[COLOR=141823]My first attempt at a grado mod. Learned a lot.[/COLOR]

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Those are gorgeous man! Those gimbals and rodblocks! Woof!

 

[TigrisJK]

Under $50 just for gimbal+rodblock. Polished.

Maybe next time I finished this gimbal with hard chromed.

Whoa man sign me up too!

 

[Arty McGhee]

 
 

 
 
 
Birds Eye Maple top with Macassar Ebony bottom. 
 
The mind has a thousand eyes
the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
 

i have no words
 
was the maple hard to work with?

 

[7keys]

When I first started to work with wood I hated working with Maple, but now that I've had some experience with some truly hard wood, the Maple was a joy to work with.
The Ebony on the sides is three times harder than hard Maple.
 
This is the first time I've worked with Birdseye and I managed to get the birds eyes to pop, at some angles it looks like they're sitting on top of the wood. 

 

[Reality]

Those turned out very nice.