no, just velour… if you go suede its pretty drastic the bass gets quite amplified as that brightness goes down towards neutral.
not angled no but regular leathers yeah, similar to suede but a bit less on the airy side and more intimate sounding… they add a bit more on the bass than the suede to my ear. I wasn’t a big fan of leathers on the 9500 personally. The gel suedes recommended are a happy middle ground between the dekoni and stock… however they can be a bit hard to put on and they aren’t as wide as the dekoni so comfort is questionable
@Falenkor has said before he has huge ears and the brainwavz ovals have plenty of room for me. And honestly I can’t think of anything that’s easy to put on the 9500s lol. Im thinking of 3d printing some pad adapters for easier pad swaps.
they fit fine, wider than the brainwavz and much better fabric used but much more expensive
modhouse sells these for $10
depends on ear size yes but they are still quite a bit on the small size personally. Granted the shp9500 stretches them a bit wider they still aren’t as large or elongated as the dekoni or zmf… let alone the fabric used is a bit of a joke in my opinion, though you get what you pay for there considering the price differences
then again, stock shp9500 definitely doesn’t sound muddy to me at all… neutral bright signature that just adapts quite heavily to pad swaps
your looking for small tuning changes but wanting to change the pads which is a no go regardless… the only pad your going to get the stock sound out of is velour considering the stock pads are of a cloth type material… any suede is going to increase the bass to varying degrees and the treble will decrease to again varying degrees. the zmf pads are going to increase the bass(not so much sub bass more in the mid bass if anything), you will lose some slight mid presence but not that much mainly in the upper mids, and treble will decrease to closer to the neutral line but still have some slight treble on it.
misodiko has such products, earpads for SHP9500, it is specially designed for SHP9500, including plastic parts, there are earpads installation videos on youtube, the process is relatively easy:
They also recently released a headband pad for SHP9500 & SHP9600:
The SHP 9500 with Brainwavz Microsuede Gel Pads are what I have right now. I don’t have much headphone experience, as these are the only audiophile headphones I have ever owned. My brother in law has a Tygr, but that’s the only comparison I have.
So with the Microsuede pads making it much warmer, would that bring the sound signature of the SHP from a neutral bright to neutral or to straight up warm? I’m trying to figure out what sound signature I actually enjoy. I do like the Tygr for music but not for games (mainly do to the muffled sound I feel they have, which I know is due to the foam disc) if that helps determining the sounds signature I like.
