silence2-38554
New Head-Fier
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A couple weeks ago, I picked up a set of SRH 840's & absolutely fell in love with their sound. I have been searching for my ideal closed headphone & sound-wise, the 840 is it. I will most likely be selling my AKG K550's. Although their build quality is outstanding, I hate their fit & they are honestly quite boring. While the 550 & 840 are both considered "reference" phones (I am using them primarily for mixing), I feel like listening with the Shure's is like listening with a microscope where the k550 is listening from the back of the theatre. Call this soundstage, if you will, but that's what open back cans are for. Anyway, onto the headband...
It's awful. It seems quite durable, yes, but man is it heavy, uncomfortable & just flat out poorly designed! The rubber chunk inside the vinyl is obviously stiffer than the foam, causing two pressure points at the front & rear of the band. Another member on here took the time to adhere a sennheiser HD 650 headband pad in place of the rubber / foam / vinyl catastrophe, and I will be following his lead. However, I will take it one step further, as I have realized another design flaw of this headband. The spring steel section seems too long. This makes it so that the band only touches the middle of your head & proceeds to bow out & look ridiculous before finally coming back to your ears. If this is not the fault of the spring steel middle section, it is due to the plastic adjustment sections curving inward too soon / too sharply. I'll have to evaluate the situation more closely once I get them all torn apart, but it seems that if the top section of the band were about an inch shorter, the sides would not be forced to bow out so far & the band would actually contact more of the top of the head.
If any other 840 owners would like to weigh in with their ideas on headband mods, please let me know! I'll update this thread with results!
It's awful. It seems quite durable, yes, but man is it heavy, uncomfortable & just flat out poorly designed! The rubber chunk inside the vinyl is obviously stiffer than the foam, causing two pressure points at the front & rear of the band. Another member on here took the time to adhere a sennheiser HD 650 headband pad in place of the rubber / foam / vinyl catastrophe, and I will be following his lead. However, I will take it one step further, as I have realized another design flaw of this headband. The spring steel section seems too long. This makes it so that the band only touches the middle of your head & proceeds to bow out & look ridiculous before finally coming back to your ears. If this is not the fault of the spring steel middle section, it is due to the plastic adjustment sections curving inward too soon / too sharply. I'll have to evaluate the situation more closely once I get them all torn apart, but it seems that if the top section of the band were about an inch shorter, the sides would not be forced to bow out so far & the band would actually contact more of the top of the head.
If any other 840 owners would like to weigh in with their ideas on headband mods, please let me know! I'll update this thread with results!