Headphone ear-pads: which shop, which product?

[henrik2000]

Hello, I have the on-ear-headphones Sony WH-1000XM5 (see pic below). They are quite new, but the earpads make me sweat here in Thailand. Now I've seen online there are replacement earpads for sale that give your poor head a cooler time, supposedly.

I am sure I could get these earpads from an online shop in Thailand, but is there a recommendable local shop for those earpads in Pattaya or Jomtien? I only know Tukcom.

Especially I’d love the shop to fumble off the existing ear pads and to mount the new ones, which they’ll certainly do much better than I myself could do it. It would also be nice to touch the fabric to see if I'm fine with it.

I do NOT need pure 1:1 replacement earpads; the original ones are fine. But I need earpads that are clearly better suited to hot climate and head and sit perfectly on my Sony model.

If you have any experience with certain shops (including mounting service?) or products (including “cooling gel” ear-pads), I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks!

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I have Bose QC2 on-ear headphones that I bought about ten years ago. Every couple of years, the ear pads start to disintegrate and shed black foam powder and therefore need to be replaced. OEM Bose ear pads cost 1,600 baht or so. Replacements from Lazada cost less than 400 baht and are indistinguishable from OEM. 

 

I have had no problems replacing the ear pads myself. Ear pads for your Sony headphones with cooling gel are available from Lazada as well. I suspect if you bought a pair an took them with your headphones to almost any electronics kiosk in a mall and offered them 100 baht they'd install them for you.

[pomchop]

air pods?

[zhounan]

Razer Barracuda here, quite good.

[BigStar]

Never seen replacement pads in shops. Online is the way to go: Lazada, Aliexpress, Amazon.

[henrik2000]

Hi all, thanks for your input and sorry for late reply!

[giddyup]

Ear buds or cordless headphones, which are better to use when walking?

[giddyup]

They have the replacement pads on Lazada for 274 baht.

[richard_smith237]

I've just ordered these for my Sony's...  as black bits are starting to come off the faux leather ear pads (they've lasted about 6 years - so quite happy with them and the Sony WH1000XM3's have been outstanding in terms of sound quality and noise cancelling - I can only imagined what the newer ones sound like).

 

 

[richard_smith237]

Caveat to the above comment on replacement Pads... 

 

I only use these headphones on a plane.... 

Walking around somewhere as humid as Bangkok they'd be too hot - anything that doesn't get 'sticky' is going to absorb sweat instead, & thats not going to be nice after a short time (stinky sweating headphones).

 

So... as another poster (pomchop) mentioned, for walking around - the are some very good noise cancelling in-hear headphones, many of which also have 'noise pass through' for when you also want to hear surroundings when walking in traffic etc.

 

 

 

[henrik2000]

Hi all, thanks for your advice, now following your suggestions I ordered some earpads from Lazada to be sent to my next hotel.

 

I made sure to pay in advance by credit card, so that the hotel would not be forced to pay on delivery. I may have typed in the wrong three digit number perhaps, and in that case I would have expected that the order didn't go through; instead the order was switched just-so to "pay on delivery ", exactly what hotels don't like (but what Lazada certainly likes more than a canceled order).

 

On 11/27/2024 at 6:26 PM, richard_smith237 said:

the Sony WH1000XM3's have been outstanding in terms of sound quality and noise cancelling

Would have liked to get exactly the earpads that you show here, but weren't available for my xm5 (which I got very nicely second-hand, with big discount and almost no sign of usage). Sound quality and noise canceling are certainly impressive, after coming from a Bose headphone that disappointed me unexpectedly in the sound department (it will go back onto the second chance market, where it came from).