I have the LCD-2C but I want the option to make them closed back, could I just buy the cups and swap them whenever I needed?

I don’t see Audeze selling replacement parts for it, nor do I even know what the part is called to search for third party options

The reason is, that it has a function rather than just being cosmetic. I have the LCD2 Closed Back and have opened them up I know there is a wire attached to it and a bunch of foam there hence.

Yeah basically this.

Also it's not very common for people to swap wood cups on LCD-2C.

However it's very common for people to swap wood cups on Fostex/Denon headphones. But those are different size and will not fit LCD-2C unfortunately.

So the best chance is hoping someone sell their LCD-2 Closed as parts.

Any idea what that wire goes to? Someone on eBay awhile back was selling the baffle cups/cups and all I saw was tuning foam.

According to this image, a resistor, inductor, and something we can't quite see. So it seems they use passive filtering in the cup to tune the sound.

wooden cups

you can't just add the cups on your LCD-2, there is additional dampening and other changes that needs be done for it to not sound like shit

Those look like the Bubinga cups that were offered on the LCD-XC. Sadly they don’t sell them anymore. I tried my best, but all I managed to get were the maple cups a few years back.

Breast plates

Wups

audeze cups

that rhymes with ow deez nuts isnt that profound

They’re called wooden cups

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Wooden cups, next

Poor taste :P

Does it really, though? Audeze is pronounced like "oddity" with a Z instead of T

not if you pronounce it like owdeez

but yeah you’re right

oddizy nutz

The sound would change tremendously, which is why this is not done.

I had these once. Heavy as a helmet but one of the best closed backs.

Its pronounced like Odyssey iirc

Oh shit, got em

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Thanks for that link. I have the LCDXC and it's basically an LCDX with cups on it. I wondered if I could just slap the cups on my LCD2C and be done. I haven't heard the LCD2 closed but if they implemented that kind of filter, they must be better tuned than the LCDXC, which is a total mess compared to LCDX (no bass, harsh/painful tremble, unusable for me).

wooden cups

Anthony and Derek

Wooden cups

Nope. Not that simple.

There's acoustic dampening and other trickery in the cups that differ in open-back and closed-back models. Even if you somehow added closed-back cups to the LCD-2C, they would sound like shit because they're tuned to be an open-back.

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Bass booster

I believe the scientific term is - wooden headphone ear-cup sound enclosure lol. Just closed back earcups, mate.

Those look like a beefed up Monilith M1060C