A like for the panther
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From Amazon, low price and neat with a place to coil the cord, Avantree Aluminum Metal Headphone Stand
Perving on those Grado's. Lucky!
Not sure I'd want my head on my shelf
Looks Great! Nice work. Now all you have to do is sell them for 400 Euro and do a little selling:
I think the best ones let the headphone hang free from a wide support to distribute the weight on the head band/strap/pad and leave the earpads uncompressed.
Now I'm paranoid about dust. How can dust get into the headphones that you wouldn't be able to clean with some compressed air?I just realised that my new headphones (Empyrean) don't fit well at all on my headphone stand (shown above in this thread). Due to the headphones' sockets being lower down, the cable coming out of the right hand side plug is pushed right against the headphone stand - not good at all! So I have just ordered another headphone stand which hopefully won't have this problem.
It also occurred to me that if dust gets inside the headphones, it will presumably be impossible to clean without sending it back to the manufacturer ? So I looked for a headphone stand cover but apart from a Stax cover (which I didn't like because it's transparent and I want something to also block UV light), I couldn't find anything else. In the end, I have gone for a kitchen mixer cover (!) from Etsy but chose a design with birds rather than (e.g.) cupcakes:
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Now I'm paranoid about dust. How can dust get into the headphones that you wouldn't be able to clean with some compressed air?
For me, the problem with those stands is that the insides of the ear cups are exposed at an angle which makes it easy for dust to settle inside (which is particularly a problem if the drivers are exposed through a grille or mesh without having, e.g., a fabric protecting them).