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IllogicalOrder
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Nov 22, 2019
Just to add some discussion here, I like these headphones once modified. In stock form, the treble is a bit much and the fit is a bit odd. Some reviewers have attributed the fit issue to reduced clamp in the headband, but having taken apart the headphone and replacing the headband with a clampier component from another beyer, I found the fit issue is due to the pivot on the cups not having too much vertical movement inward (this results in larger heads having the cups not being perpendicular with the head/ears and the perception of weak clamp). Personally, I found these issues fairly easy to address. The treble and fit can be tamed with a padswap. The simplest fix I had was just swapping out the stock pads with eikon perforated sheepskin pads. The treble becomes tamer and the thickness of the pads gets you a good seal. The limitation of this mod is that it reduces bass a bit and has the headphone leak. In stock form, the headphone actually has amazing sound isolation. As such, I continued messing with the headphone to get that isolation back. From here, I swapped the eikon pads with mrspeakers alpha pads. This gets you the isolation back and maintains the fit, but massively increases the bass and makes it messy (it bled into other sounds). Applying dekoni attenuation rings to the alpha pads cleans up the messy bass, bu still retains the excessive bass quantity. To get the bass amount to more tolerable levels for myself, I sealed half of the bass vents with tape. Ultimately, the headphone became something that puts me in a little room of sound that follows me and has the beyerdynamic sound without the beyerdynamic pain.
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