Tranesca Leather Replacement earpad/Ear Cushion/Ear Cover for Big OVEREAR Headphones (Fits a Great Variety of Headphones) - Black

Zunächst: Die Bestellung kam 3 Wochen früher als angekündigt, was sehr erfreulich ist. Diese Ohrpolster haben zwar andere Maße als die Original Polster von Panasonic, aber sie passen! Man muss nur den Überkopfbügel etwas größer einstellen. Die Polster sind sehr weich und dämmen deutlich besser Geräusche von außen ab als die Originalpolster. Sternabzug gibt es für den veränderten Klang. Da die Polster doppelt so dick sind, bieten sie zwar mehr Platz für Segelohren, aber verdoppeln auch den Abstand der Treiber zu Ohr. Dadurch ergeben sich meines Erachtens Veränderungen in Räumlichkeit und Bandbreite. Wenn ich die neuen Polster mit den Händen näher an die Ohren drücke, um den alten Abstand wieder herzustellen, erhalte ich wie zu erwarten kräftigere Tiefen und die Räumlichkeit ist weniger geweitet. Ich beschreibe das so vorsichtig, weil ich mich wohl daran gewöhnen muss, mangels Alternativen. Falls also jemand einen besseren Ersatz kennt, gerne bei mir melden!

I appreciate reviews that do not feed me a line and get to the point. TLDR (at the beginning): buy these now before they go up in price. For the comfort they provide and the price they ask, you are getting a superior product. I. Love. These. Earpads. I have over a dozen in-ear headphones, five on-ear headphones, and six over-ear headphones (yes, I have a problem). As my bartender once said as I was chasing down the elusive Thomas Handy rye bourbon: “You are chasing the dragon, good sir.” My dudes/ladies, I want awesome sounding music at a decent price. FLAC is my go-to and I need headphones and a good DAC to chase the elusive dragon of sound euphoria. With the format down, I need a set of cans that do not blow the budget (I own Bose and love them, but dude, that brand is stupid expensive and only worth the Black Friday and refurbished deals that rear their ugly heads during sales) and still provide reliable sound. I have developed a certain audiophile obsession over the last few years because I am getting older and YouTube 128kbps videos just are not doing it for me lately. As such, unfortunately, searching for “the best sound” at the best price means I have to chase down components to Frankenstein my sound options. Behold: the Tranesca earpads are making budget cans that have no business sounding as good as they do (I am looking at you Tascam TH-02 and Monoprice 8323—look up the reviews if you have not checked them out) more comfortable. Look, none of us really want to pay $100+ for headphones that sound awesome with our music collection. As such, we buy cheap headphones in hope that they reach Bose/Sonos levels of sound. Budget headphones, especially the good ones, cut the costs in the earpads; the silent agreement is that your music will sound amazing but your ears are likely to hurt in an hour or two. Some of us are okay with this. Others, like me, are not. This is America. We want the cheapest product at the best price. As I mentioned before, I own 20+ headphones and I prefer over-the-ear for sound isolation but it’s hard to find comfortable cans (especially if your eyes are not cooperative and you have to wear glasses to see anything—yay me!). I have replaced both the Tascam and Monoprice headsets with the Tranesca replacement earpads and they are infinitely more comfortable. I would love to pretend that I am blowing smoke up the proverbial backside, but these things are just comfy. I also own an expensive set of the Brainwaz Sheepskin Earpads (https://www.amazon.com/Brainwavz-Sheepskin-Leather-Memory-Earpad/dp/B01J53KM32) and I prefer the Tranesca, which are a third of the price. I have owned the Tranesca for three months (I will come back here and edit if longevity is a problem) and they are my go-to for replacement pads. They are thick, comfy, and go around my big ears to provide passive noise cancellation. I bought another pair to put on my gaming headphones because they are that awesome. If you are rolling with Amazon Prime, do yourself a favor and at least check these out. Best case scenario: you hate yourself for not making your budget headphones feel awesome. Worst case scenario: you decide the earpads don’t help your jams and you return them (with no consequence!) to chase the music dragon more. 10/10 would buy again.

Great comfort and the added isolation to the sound from my pair of 40X is worth the price

I’ll try this analogy... If the original pads that ship with the ATH-M50x are my flat af white guy behind then these are Kim Kardashians behind. As for fitting- They went on easy enough for me. Isolation is about the same to me.. I’m probably not the best to ask about that side of it as I don’t use my 50x’s that often, I usually use IEMs. Are they comfortable... yes, very. I can wear these much longer now. Quality? It’s hard to say right now as I’ve only used them for maybe 10hrs total. Stitching is a bit wonky, but no loose threads on mine. They do have an angle in them that is prominent (as seen in the pics) but it works, I get why they’ve done this. I don’t believe they are leather but I’m no leather expert. If you don’t want to spend $40+ these will do fine but if you’re a heavy user then I’d suggest pads from a reputable brand that cost a bit more as I don’t think these will last longer than a year with heavy use..... I could be wrong though.

They claimed to fit my hyperx's and that was a lie, one they are bigger then the original by a sizable margin, and the inside bit where they slip into the headset was like a solid 1 and half cm bigger so it wouldnt fit and i was forced to trim it to try to get it to fit better but now im stuck with earphones that slip off when i take my headset off, so im gonna have to diy it and use double sided tape or something :(. if your in my position just buy it from hyperx atleast then it will fit and you wont have problems.