Make your own headphone foam replacement?

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I agree. I have some tandberg headsets with this design of pad. the material just disintegrates. I may experiment by cutting down some sponge into circles and covering with cotton...

-B

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It's funny you should bring this up. About a year ago, I tried to do that very thing. I don't have any fancy headphones, just plain ordinary ones, but the foam fell apart too quickly.

I cut some fabric (an old t-shirt) in order to make a little "sock" that slips over the earpiece. I used a couple of layers to provide enough padding between the plastic and my ears. Sadly, I guess I used too much fabric, or the fabric was too dense, because it had an adverse effect on the sound quality from the headphones. It really attenuated the low end... enough so that I couldn't enjoy the music.

I just bought another pair for $10. Darn, I wanted to be cheap. :)

Kinda makes you wonder how they make those foam covers in the first place.

Thanks.

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----------------------------------------------------- Matthew Fries Minneapolis, MN USA snipped-for-privacy@baloneyvisi.com

"Quit eating all my *STUFF*!" - The Tick

I dont think much of their after sales support.

Regards

I took a set of Realistic headphones out of long term storage, to find the foam earcups had turned to two piles of dust. I cut new ones from the black 1/2" dense foam computer stuff comes packed in, using a quicky hot foam cutter I made up from an old variac and some nichrome wire. Best way I found was to make 2 cardboard discs to act as guides; made 2 pretty good repros this way. JR

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