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How thick are your glasses? I have a pair of designer frames, but relatively with or without glasses, I don't find any differences in bass. The reason for that being the memory pads, which contour very nicely around my ears. With regards to comfort, they get much better after a while when the headband breaks in and eases up, same thing goes for the pads. The difference between my ears and the driver is pretty much the same if I am wearing glasses or not due to the memory pads....Are your ears fitting inside the cups properly or not?
Sorry for a super late reply. I don't come here often, but better late than never.
I believe the length along the whole side is the standard 145mm. The temple piece at the end of my glasses are 6mm by 4mm by 3mm. The temples have 23mm of straightness from the frame piece then have a bend/curve that is about 46mm. However that is irrelevant because breaking the seal created by the headphones regardless removes ALL of the subbass. Seriously, just barely inserting them - and I mean barely, as in the frames are head in place only held in place by the memory foam, they don't even go the full way in - causes the effect like an off/on lightswitch. Full seal, subbass. Broken seal (even 1%), gone. Simply breaking the seal AT ALL destroys the sound for me. I think my ears are ok too. I mean it feels like they cover all of it and that they are not fitting incorrectly or uncomfortably.
I've come to the conclusion that this single problem makes them a complete waste of money (at least for me). If I don't wear glasses with them, I need to be basically 1 foot away from my monitor to see text (yeah, that's not going to work with a 23" monitor), since I'm nearsighted. Another thing is the headphones sound best if I put them on, push them in for a sec, and then let go and let them "equalize". It creates a more sealed seal. You'd think that pushing the drivers closer would ruin the sound but everything becomes easier to discern and LOT more musical. In my review, I mentioned an unfocused, fatiguing sound I encountered with the 8400s... and simply pushing them in to create a better seal eliminates some to all of that. It even makes them slightly more comfortable. So wearing glasses at all is intrinsically against all of that since it has to break the seals.
I really just cannot fathom how some of you don't notice this. Would having a proper amp correct it? I only use a USB soundcard, but the bass removal is beyond subtle. I was just listening to some new music, "Superliminal" by deadmau5 and compared to my crap speakers, was hearing a TON more detail than ever before. Seriously, whole new instruments and fine detail that I never picked up on before were front and center. I then tried them with my glasses. I don't know if you use Foobar2000, but I spent like 10 minutes recreating the EQ different that I hear with glasses on while using the 8400s, going back and forth between on/off with EQ and glasses. You can use this as a guide (even moreso when you use exact song Superliminal, like how MP3 was designed with the song "
Tom's Diner" by
Suzanne Vega in mind, hence that song produces the best result with mp3s).