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MAYHEM by Lady Gaga (2025) {no link} Example: Overall the album was good, but a little too samey from song to song. The best thing was still the duet with Bruno Mars that they both released.

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I did some further digging: Drivers are accessed from the back and this is a nice piece of aluminum.  The driver is in a plastic carrier but somehow the dust cover on the front is not included and was just loose.  I was told that these drivers were supposed to be easy to service in the field but that is just a flat out lie.  I lifted the cradle out of the aluminum shell and the dust cover was left behind... how does that make any sense?  Dust intrusion is a major issue so if somebody is going to replace a driver the first thing you do is expose it to dust.  Makes zero sense to me...  You knew it was coming, I went all viking on its ass...    I simply used a flatblade screwdriver to vedge underneath the lip of the plastic and slowly the adhesive gave up... most of the time.  The other channel was much more difficult though so this is not easy.  Plus I left the driver in there so exposed face of the driver means one slip and you've done some major damage.  There is still some remnants left over but I'll likely design a simple PCB that I can glue into place to protect the driver.  Let's call this the un-fuck mod...    Now for the sound, it is a definite improvement.  Is this sound staging I hear... in an electrostatic?  Perish the thought...  Much better bass too and everything sounds more alive.  There are some midrange issues present in drivers though, especially on voices when I push the volume up a bit (remember these are roughly 6dB down from the Stax norm) but it is still a stark improvement over the stock headphones.  More listening needed and a quick PCB session...

There isn't enough room inside the earpads to do any real repositioning for me , maybe 10mm back and forth max.  I didn't spot any meaningful difference.  The headband is just horrible, too much clamping for me and no good way of adjusting that out of fear of breaking it.  It rings and it always wants to twist on me I grew to hate the Voce over time (well a couple of good listening sessions) and the earpads were huge part of that.  I heard them again at Canjam with the angled ether pads and they are much better.  I told the people manning the DCA booth that "wow, there were utter trash but now they are good" and they didn't like that comment all that much.  If I remember correctly they replied in a fit of rage "they won awards!!!".  Yeah as if anybody puts any stock in that trash.    No major failure point them that I can spot, nice materials and all that Edit:  Okey I got fed up and ripped off the earpads.  Just look at this stupidity!!!!! The only thing that springs to mind is why on earth would anybody do this?  I'm going to dig deeper and see if this trash can be removed.  Btw:  The earpads are simply glued in:  

Multiple by Joe Henderson (1973) https://album.link/tgfvb24bkbtbt Example: Goes a little far now and then into the 70 experimental jazz, but always keeps it musical. I did really enjoy this outing. Lots of flavors to enjoy.