Well, I wasn’t really planning to change the pads.. more along the lines of wondering if it’s just straight up a different tuning causing that frequency response or just the black pads which are, like said currently, supposedly thicker and alter the sound accordingly. If you were to go and compare the sound signature I listed to that of the 1990 it also becomes rather apparent that in terms of frequency they are very close which I will post here
red again being the black version of the dt 880s blue is dt 1990 analytical and purple being balanced dt 1990. This is primarily what made me become curious and my buddy I speak to over the internet owns a pair of the 250 ohm black and wouldn’t shut up about how good they are. After testing the original version, and not being a big fan, I got to wondering more so after being told they are of a different tune entirely but this I do not think has been fully proven to my knowledge. Which if not ya know.. no harm done but if so and they are a different tune of course I may be interested.
@ssjdrn since you mentioned switching to the silver pads from the 880/990 this is again what got me interested. This is again the black version of the dt 880s but pad swapped over in comparison red being black pads blue being silver. This causes me to believe that the black version of the 880s is of a seperate tuning to the original 880 edition
