"but Ev, bigger pads give bigger soundstage!" Bullshit. Low distortion, excellent channel matching, good transient response with quick decay, and drivers angled towards your ears will recreate the stage in the recording. Everything else is a commissive party trick.
I love your moxy and f'ing hate pad nervosa. I had some Elleven Acoustica R1s a while ago that I loved and they sounded best pasted right to my ears. I regret letting them go.
I love the earpads I'm using for my Audeze's but they are the ONLY earpads that work and I've tried everything OEM out there and tried having my own earpads made many times. I have so many f'ing earpads, but only these work. I pray to God they don't discontinue them.
I have them custom made with some tweaks too and I'm working on a leather version that might work.
But I hear you, most earpads suck and I bet most manufacturers just don't try enough or think about them enough to get the best sound from their headphones.
It's also not logical. I have found almost zero acoustic "rules" that apply to all earpads except more leaky generally means a brighter more bass light sound but not always and otherwise it's just seemingly very random as far as midrange presence and things like that.
Hmm I wonder if it's because people _don't_ want to recreate the stage in the recording, they want something that sounds more expansive because some recordings can sound more closed in/intimate than they'd like. For those people, bigger earpads may be a hack to get that; others may like the commissions of tube amps or the like. Just a thought.
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