pippen99
Headphoneus Supremus
Tried the Auteur Suede pads. Not for me, but...
If you find Auteur on the bright side, you might really like these. To my ears these pads move the Auteur tonality closer to that of my HD-6xx. Again, not bad, but I prefer the perforated Auteur lambskin.
That is exactly my position. I just past one hundred hours on my new Blackwoods. I have the stock Auteur pads, the Eikon perforated pads, and the Suede pads so now it is time to start pad rolling. When I auditioned the Blackwoods I found the stock pads very bright. Not quite Utopia bright but was really impressed when Zach installed the Eikon pads. At a hundred hours I still find my pair a tad brighter than Zach's demo pair but then his probably had many hundreds of hours on them. My pure silver cable might be contributing to that impression. Looking forward to giving the Suede pads a try.
At a hundred hours the sound signature has rounded into a very nicely cohesive sound. The bottom end has become more authoritative and the top end has blended in to create a very pleasing whole. Looking forward to many pleasurable hours with these.