Ok, so it's been a while, but I just had to do another repair to a pair of Fidelio headphones, for the same pad splitting. First, to give an update on those M1, I had tried shoe goo, but as I recall it was really stringy, and just didn't work. It's a slow setting glue, and the foam pads just...

While in the past I was a huge fan of Philips Fidelio headphones, I can't support them anymore due to the lack of easily purchasable OEM replacement pads. I've had a number of M1, an L1, a couple L2, and an X2HR headphones, and I think only the X2HR were you ever able to get true OEM...

I recently got the Studio Pro on the Amazon sale for $180. I've been looking for a set of ANC headphones for a while, and this is my first. The reasons I picked the Studio Pro over others are for a few reasons you didn't touch on. First, I'm all Apple, and yet, I didn't want auto-switching. I...

You can still buy pads from ML. I got a couple pairs a few months ago.

It looks like some of those PS2000e B stock are still available. https://4ourears.com/products/b-stock-ps2000e

Nice, just as I figured.

If you're still looking for the e series, there are a few out there, Grado still has the SR325e and RS2e https://4ourears.com/collections/clearance, and Moon has the RS2e and the GS e lineup https://www.moon-audio.com/brands/grado_labs.html

Like others have said, if you like them, you'd like "The Midnight", "Wolfclub", "Timecop 1983", "Dryve" and others on NewRetroWave. https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/

Are those electrolytic caps in the center there, hard to tell with all the glue? If so, it's possible they're starting to go bad. It seems in many retro electronics issues, it's the caps and just swapping in new will fix issues. Not sure if that's the case here, but could be.

That makes sense and I hadn't thought of that.... but wouldn't that also be the case when it is selecting between 2 sources to a single output? In that case, it's still going to short the output when you turn it all the way down, correct?

Hmm, but audio is an AC signal, so direction shouldn't matter, if all it is is a passive pot, correct?

I know that's on their site/manual, but why is that the case? Is it that it doesn't work or distort the signal, or that you just shouldn't do it for some reason?

Someone posed this site in the Grado thread as well. They had a GS3000e for $99. Definitely a scam site.

I have the RS2e, and take what I say with the knowledge that I've never heard the Hemp, but from reviews, graphs, and forum threads, it seems that the Hemp stock and the RS2e with F or TTVJ Flat pads are pretty comparable. I'm content with pad swapping on my RS2e when I want more bass and less...

The nice thing is it's an industry standard. There are other ways to hold your keys. One that is popular is called Yubikey, and it's a little thing you can put on your keyring. Just like keys, you can also make backups and store them in a secure location. Holding them on your phone behind...