headband is come today,5 mn to install with your intruction, leather appear to be cow ,good quality ,nice finish. For the price, the Turbulent Labs customs will yield definite visual, comfort, and quality-of-life upgrades over the nearest stock Grado headphones. If you are…. Pull the end of the headband out of one end of the rodblock, slide off the stock headband, and slide the new headband on. Being so light, these Turbulent Labs customs are ‘all-day’ comfortable, and ultimately the comfort equation comes down to the combination of clamp-force that you decide to bend into the headband that you supply, along with the form-factor and material of your chosen earpads. Grado owners will either bemoan or love the fact that their headphones ship with a permanently attached, thick black cable that has all the tactility and thickness of an electrical extension cord – it’s thicc. Turbulent Labs Grado & Beyerdynamic Headbands. Leather headbands, built to last. Aphex Twin’s ‘. Grado Headbands. Exceptional review. I highly recommend all grado prestige series owners to replace their stock headband … www.headphonelounge.com Headphone Lounge is a joint venture between Chris and Jin and is a product of communication from two different sides of the world. Very nice!! First, heat up your soldering iron (ideally, one with more than 40-watts of power), and then match up the black terminated wire on either side with the ‘-’ (negative) terminal on each driver, the blue with the ‘+’ on the left-hand driver, and the red with the ‘+’ on the right-hand driver. Grado Leather Headband XL – Black $60 Leather headbands, built to last. Party because Grados never come with a balanced option straight out of the box, but mainly because most of my DAPs have a 2.5mm balanced output, and also because I can easily use a 4-pin XLR adapter on my full-sized amplifiers. Firing-up some music for the first time, the Turbulent Labs sound immediately familiar to me as a Grado aficionado, and yet subtly different at the same time. 1 X headband; L/R headphone cup lockers and 2 pcs of Y shape brackets Mounting accessories; Grado S, L or G Cushion Hi-End 6N OFC cable with gold plated jacks (optional) 40mm or 50mm Hi-Fi drivers (optional) Product images The headband, lockers and Y shape cup brackets. IIRC the drivers are 40mm, similar aftermarket replacements are sold by Turbulent Labs, some prefer them to stock. Track # 3, ‘, are without a doubt the most befitting visual match for the Turbulent Labs customs, and they’re also probably the most ‘Goldilocks’ pairing with them as well in terms of all-round technicalities – they give a perfect level of bass slam, vocal texture and eerie reverb of Radiohead’s ‘. Turbulent Lab’s OCC cable is a Litz-syle, braided cable with a matte plastic sheath. It took 2 minutes to fit and has totally transformed the look and feel of my Grado sr225i’s. First, heat up your soldering iron (ideally, one with more than 40-watts of power), and then match up the black terminated wire on either side with the ‘-’ (negative) terminal on each driver, the blue with the ‘+’ on the left-hand driver, and the red with the ‘+’ on the right-hand driver. Grado Headbands. Learn how your comment data is processed. I’m a sucker for classic rock tinged with a dollop of country, and The Black Crowes’ ‘Amorica’ album lives right within the Turbulent Labs customs’ sweet-spot. Turbulent Labs build with Beautiful Audio Hybrid leather/merino pads. The team at Turbulent Labs kindly supplied the drivers, headband, cups, and cable for this review (I sabotaged an old pair of Grado SR80’s for the rodblock and gimbal assembly, R.I.P). We strive to make the coolest audio and carry solutions. It’s a praise column… $1000-$5000 , Budget , Full Size , Headphones , Review 08/06/2017 Audio. Track # 3, ‘High Head Blues’ is a toe-tapping mix of left/right-panned guitar over-dubbed tracks and percussion that feels like it’s being delivered in a 3D sphere around your head. Speaking of which, I opted for a balanced 2.5mm cable. While the same basic driver is used for multiple models, there are driver differences throughout the current lineup, including closer driver matching on higher-end models. BomberChang. There was a slight amount of ‘squeak’ where the gimbals touch the cups, at first, but a quick rub of some soap on each of the touchpoints solved that without any further issues. The headband is built with 2 layers of cow leather and 2 layers of foam padding, stainless steel band and Grado lockers. Utilizing premium materials, Italian full-grain Nappa leather is precision cut, skillfully constructed and sewn together with German Polyester Filament Threads on Japanese industrial sewing machines.