I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like this
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s_7cm_55cm.jpg
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

On Nov 20, 11:48 pm, digitaltoast wrote:
I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like thishttp://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/digitaltoast/proluxe_nc-2_head...
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

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

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:49:20 -0800 (PST), b
wrote:

On Nov 20, 11:48 pm, digitaltoast wrote:
I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like thishttp://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/digitaltoast/proluxe_nc-2_head...
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

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

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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"digitaltoast" wrote in message
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I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like this
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s_7cm_55cm.jpg
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

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


digitaltoast wrote:

I got a pair of Pro-Luxe NC2 Noise Cancelling Headphones from Maplin a
couple of years ago. They're great! Except...somehow, somewhere, I
lost a bit of foam.
They look like this
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s_7cm_55cm.jpg
The foam is oval, 7x5.5cm or so. Can't find it anywhere. I've tried
Maplins, the importers, even the makers (who don't send out spares).
I've even looked on ebay to see if anyone was selling a broken pair.
It seems a shame to junk a decent pair of headphones just because of
this. Any idea

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