Sennheiser HD 4.50 Ear Pad Replacement

Written By: Grace Singley

Comments: 8

Difficulty

Very easy

Steps

Time Required

5 minutes

Introduction

This step-by-step repair guide will teach you how to carefully remove and replace a broken ear pad for the Sennheiser HD 4.50. The ear pads are key to keeping your headphones comfortable on your ears, so if they are broken or ripped, you may experience discomfort while using them. If your ear cups are misshapen, follow this guide to return your headphones to full functionality. For the sake of safety, remove the power cord from the Sennheiser HD 4.50 before beginning the process of ear pad removal.

Parts

Step 1

Grasp the ear pad with your fingers and pull gently away from the ear cups of Sennheiser HD 4.50.

Step 2

To reinsert the ear pad, start by working the edge of the material back into the grooves of the ear cup.
Work the material back in all the way around until the ear pad is secure.

Sounds extremely easy on paper but these are one of the most frustrating ear pads to put back on. The ear pads were ripped and I removed them for repair, ended up ripping 90% of the whole pad because of how hard it is to put back on.

hktn -

Replacing a soft rubber pad under tension is not the opposite of getting them off . It is almost impossible. The instructions on this page are dishonest and in fact fraudulent.

Phelim Murnion -

Incredibly hard to put them back on. Thinking about supergluing them.

Rachel Dolan -

Trick seems to be to carefully stretch the fabric before starting. Put on half the pad, then stretch out your indexfinger and thumb to hold the good half in place while using you other hand to fiddle in the remaining half.

G Fixer -

Super hard to replace, but if you're patient it does work. I worked as follows. First get a decent part, like a 15% of the whole thing, in place; this is trial and error, but you'll succeed. Keep both ends of the "good part" (that is already in place) in using two fingers of one hand. Then use the other hand to put in place a bit more of the rim at one end of the good part. If you succeed, move the "holding finger" at that end of the good part so that you're keeping the entire good part in place. Continue in this way, extending the good part a little each time. You'll have to switch to the other end of the good part sometimes because the forces are pulling the wrong way.

Keep the two holding fingers in place very securely, especially when you're almost done! No matter how close you are, the pad still has a tendency to slip out.

Tom Smeding -

I managed to put them back on finally! You can fold the edge out, but leave a bit as normal. Putting the normal side under tension into the groove is quite easy. After that start unfolding the edge by a little and it will slip into the grove. Finally you will have a little bit left, that will just bunch up around the groove, but not go in. I carefully pulled the whole pad toward that side and it slipped in.

Самир Абдуллаев -

En effet, l'qpération est vraiment difficile. En utilisant les conseils donnés plus haut, particulièrement par Tom Smeding, je n'ai pas été assez habile pour réussir.

J'ai finalement utilisé l'astuce suivante :

À chaque fois que j'arrive à introduire la partie souple du coussinet, je bloque celle-ci à l'aide d'un morceau de bristol (un petit morceau de carte de visite plié en deux) entre cette partie et le bord de la rainure. J'ai procédé ainsi alternativement de chaque côté, et lorsqu'il ne reste plus qu'une petite partie qui n'est pas engagée, il suffit de tirer sur le coussinet pour qu'elle entre dans la rainure. Cela demande tout de même beaucoup de patience.

Claudepa -

Conclusion

You have correctly replaced your Sennheiser HD 4.50 ear pads.

Author

Grace Singley

Member since: 19/02/21

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One comment

i want to shoot myself &&^& this thing

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