I'm not completely finished with my Grado modding. I've tried a small number of mods already on my SR-125's and SR-225's but I eventually restored the 225's to stock condition and I've since been messing around with the 125's.
So far I've modded the stock cable, shortened it and re-soldered a straight Switchcraft 3.5mm mini plug, for better use portably.
Then I rescreened the 125's with some black metal screens, I think they look awesome and are much better than the stock plastic ones. I cut the black screens out of of my old Klipsch 2.1 subwoofer grill with some tin snips, worked like a charm and look excellent IMO.
After I finished my rescreening, I went ahead and sanded off the already faded black lettering and buffed it to a smooth almost shiny black finish.
All of the silver paint rubbed off the rings on my 225's so I swapped out the rings to make the 225's stock and sanded the rings on the 125's.
Pictures of the rescreening process and finished (for now
) project can be seen
here. Also,
here's a rather dark picture of some of my pads that I frequently roll on and off my 3 pairs of Grado's. So far I very much prefer the bowls on the 125's and 225's, and will switch between bowls, Senn 414's, and Todd Flats on my MS-2i's. I've found that he MS-2i's are the only Grado so far that I can use the Flats without losing too much detail, it's quite nice. Though I have yet to consistantly use my modded C-pads. They are unported, so that might be the problem, just too muffled.
Next up on the list is to get the detachable cable mod going and probably a Beyer headband pad, dunno yet though. I will also be re-cabling my 225's with material's yet to be decided and after hearing about mjg's experience, I'm debating on whether or not to send in my MS-2i's to Larry!