waterduck
New Head-Fier
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awesome, and there is already and instructional video on youtube to show you how to change the ear pads!, can't wait to try the head phones first!
Bear in mind, with the mod in for an extended period of time, the foam will compress more than usual over time. Doing this mod will hurt any hopes of "going back to normal" the longer you leave it in. You would have to purchase new pads to really start from scratch.
@Apo0th3karY,
It is cool that you guys are hearing sonic changes. However, every user is doing a slightly different mod with different materials and a different change in depth. Also, each user starts off with a different ear shape and different hearing abilities of the different frequencies. Even the placement of the headphones on different people's heads are different. In fact, every time you redo your mod with gauze, different areas under your pads will be thicker/thinner. This makes it difficult to predict what kind of change someone will experience when they do their own mod.
In my personal experience, I did not notice a change in sound when I did my paper towel mod (half a sheet rolled up tightly and stuffed under the earpad which added 2mm to the depth). I had two M100 headphones, so I could switch back and forth rapidly between them. I think I have decent hearing as I can tell the different in sound quality between 320kbps vs. 192kbps (or lower) mp3 on a pretty consistent basis in blind tests.
So I did numerous direct A-B comparision between one modded vs unmodded, and I did not hear any of the noticeable changes that people were describing. I tried a variety of songs and different listening lengths. I also listened to each one for a whole day and did not notice any change that was noticeable enough to comment on. I even tried looping a specific 10 sec part of a track and rapidly switching headphones to see if I could hear the difference, and I also tried holding the right earcup of modded to one ear & the right earcup of unmodded to my other ear, and then switching it while playing a short loop to see if I can notice the difference.
I did these tests blind and not-blind specifically trying to hear changes from the mod. Whenever I thought I heard a change, I rewound to that section and did a A-B direct comparison to see if I can reproduce it. At the end of the day, I personally could not hear any change that I could duplicate or consistently identify. All these tests were done w/ 320 kbps mp3 files.
While some people here may be able to detect such differences in sound, I know I personally cannot, and I am sure there will be some other people who will share my experiences. So I thought it would be helpful for people to hear about my personal experience.
Does anyone experience the same in having the
screws easily scratched when changing out the Shields with the Alan key ? I have the matte black and it spoils the look slightly.