Just replaced the ear pads in my Corsair gaming headphones and noticed there was paper covering the holes in the plastic covering the speakers. Anyone have an opinion about why they would do this and if I should keep the paper on?
Just replaced the ear pads in my Corsair gaming headphones and noticed there was paper covering the holes in the plastic covering the speakers. Anyone have an opinion about why they would do this and if I should keep the paper on?
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It’s an acoustic filter. They can be made of a variety of materials, most common are specific types of paper, woven polyester meshes and woven metal meshes.
They have a very specific acoustic impedance, reducing the velocity of the sound, effectively acting as damping.
Depending on where it’s put, it can be used to increase or decrease extension, bass boost, shape the midrange or reduce treble peaks.
TL;DR:
It’s part of the tuning. Don’t change it.
More than likely for tuning
It also keeps tiny foreign matter (ear wax) and such from the speaker cone, preventing premature deterioration.
That paper is used to tune the sound of the headphones to a certain spec, for instance imaging, or low notes , high notes or balanced it all depends on the use case and the manufacturer spec essentially
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It’s a filter of some kind… Either for debris or audio purposes. No idea on the specific use myself.
Recently replaced the pads on my DT1770, same thing, so it’s not a one off thing.
Kind of like a pop-filter on a microphone I believe.
It is paper made for the headphone i case of self destuction, you shouldnt be checking on the inside corsair knows your address
Better remove it and find out
you didn’t pay for the extra loud bass, so they put those in there to block the bass
/s, but only because it was already answered
Whose paper?
[https://dekoniaudio.com/articles/what-are-headphone-filters/](https://dekoniaudio.com/articles/what-are-headphone-filters/)
It’s a conspiracy to use more paper to cut down on trees and raise global warming
How did you replace the ear pads? One of the pads on mine need to be fixed
Keeps your greasy hair out of the drivers
Thats where the warmth comes from.
To protect you
Acoustic tuning.
It’s not just some ordinary paper.
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