Headphone pad mounting system
A headphone may employ an ear pad mounted to a housing. Affixing a soft sticky or tacky non-adhesive polymer base to the underside of a headphone ear pad allows easy attachment of ear pads to a headphone with the ability to frequently and non-destructively swap pads, without the weight, bulk and fragility of other pad attachment mechanisms.
1. A method comprising:
affixing a non-adhesive polymer base to an underside of an ear pad, the non-adhesive polymer base comprising a gel elastomer;
attaching the ear pad to a headphone housing; and
playing sound via an acoustic driver positioned within the headphone housing.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-adhesive polymer base is affixed to the ear pad via at least one adhesive.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ear pad is attached to an ear cup of the headphone housing.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ear pad contacts a baffle of the headphone housing.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ear pad comprises a single material.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ear pad comprises a multiple different materials.
7. A method comprising:
affixing a non-adhesive polymer base to an underside of an ear pad, the non-adhesive polymer base comprising only a gel elastomer;
attaching the first ear pad to a headphone housing;
playing sound via an acoustic driver positioned within the headphone housing;
removing the first ear pad from the headphone housing; and
attaching a second ear pad to the headphone housing.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the headphone housing is unaltered between removal of the first ear pad and attachment of the second ear pad.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first ear pad and second ear pad each have separate non-adhesive polymer bases.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first ear pad is positioned in alignment with the headphone housing and the second ear pad overlaps an edge of the headphone housing.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein a user customizes the position of the non-adhesive polymer base relative to the underside of the ear pad.
12. A method comprising:
affixing a non-adhesive polymer base to an underside of an ear pad the non-adhesive polymer base comprising a gel elastomer;
attaching the ear pad to a headphone housing in a first position;
playing sound via an acoustic driver positioned within the headphone housing;
removing the ear pad from the headphone housing; and
re-attaching the ear pad to the headphone housing in a second position.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first position and the second position are different relative to an ear cup of the headphone housing.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the ear pad is re-attached to the headphone housing without altering the headphone housing or non-adhesive polymer base.
15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the ear pad is re-attached to the headphone housing cyclically over time without altering the headphone housing or non-adhesive polymer base.