I fixed the Ether C!!!

FR is way better compared to the previously posted one. You are going to tell us what you did, right?

 

Two bucks says he did it with toilet paper again...

 

I should have guessed. Hanes 2 ply

 

This is what I've been doing in Amarra.

 

Well done Koth, you're finally getting the hang of things !

 

LOL. Really.

Did you leave any stock pads in place?

Is this a belated April Fools joke?

 

Haha this is funny and ridiculous - but if such a simple mod would fix the treble peak I am intrigued.

Would a similar mod improve the open Ether? I still can't tell if people prefer the open or closed Ether at SBAF.

 

Do people actually do this? I tip my glasses up so the earpieces are resting on the pads of my headphones, or take them off entirely.

 

I get too much distortion if I do that, plus I don't like the way they feel on my nose tipped up. I just take them off for serious listening sessions, depending on the phone.

 

If I don't wear glasses, I can't see. And I listen to music while working, so both are important to me. And turning up my glasses makes them glarey

 

I get a bunch of reflections if I do that, plus yeah it doesn't feel particularly nice... I'm only myopic (so far) so if I'm not looking at the TV/PC I'll often take them off, don't really need them to use a phone/tablet.

That frames I use at home aren't particularly troublesome tho, got in the habit of using a looser and thinner frame at home... I'd often fall asleep with my glasses on and if they slipped off and I rolled over them they'd get bent out of shape (no amount of bending would restore the fit & prevent them from feeling off afterwards).

With the Flexons (home frames) or whatever they're called it's not a big deal, they snap right back (like memory wire). It's a nice break from the more secure pinch of the Oakley frames I tend to wear out throughout the day anyway.

They're so thin and flexible pads can literally bend the legs in a little. Some still lose seal but most don't, few cause any pinch or pressure, vast difference vs my other frames.

#firstworld4eyeaudiophileproblems?

 

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Scratch that. Behold the greatest HD800 mod ever created by man. @sorrodje eat your heart out

 

If a headphone is not glasses friendly it's design is flawed imo, look at Sennheiser(among others) they have been pulling it off for years.

 

Planar headphones do usually need a strong seal and there's nothing you can do about that. Dynamics not so much.
When I listen to a planar headphone at a meet, the first thing I do is put down my glasses and see how it affects the frequency response. More often than not the change isn't huge but glasses will always give you a worse seal.

 

Fair enough. But can't that be compensated for with bigger and more plush pads? The Focus pads on my HE-500 seem alright to me. My glasses have fairly thin earpieces though. I guess a closed planar is harder to tune right.