In the late 2000’s, Audio Technica changed the game releasing the original ATH-M50. The M50’s served not only the professional studio world, but also crossed over to the consumer mass market taking it by storm.

One of the best budget headphones, the sound is excellent, but the pads leave some room for improvement.

Dekoni Choice Suede is a soft, supple synthetic suede. Its sheen velour look and incredibly gentle feel on the skin is constantly mistaken for real suede.

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When you take soft, supple sheepskin and wrap it in dense, slow rebounding memory foam, you increase isolation, comfort and sound stage.

The sheepskin and foam wrap create a tight but comfortable seal on your head, even if you wear glasses, to ensure that our discerning listeners have a great headphone experience.

Dekoni Audio spent a lot of time designing and refining this ear pad to be the most comfortable and best sounding velour pad available today.

By using a tighter velour, Dekoni made the ear pad react more like traditional leather so that you don’t lose the bass frequencies or isolation seen in most velour pads, all while retaining the comfort and coolness of velour.

Dekoni Choice Leather is a soft, supple synthetic leather. Its sheen look and incredibly gentle feel on the skin is constantly mistaken for real leather.

With incredible durability and unmatched comfort, you may find you like it even more than real sheepskin. Dekoni Choice Leather uses the same ultra slow rebound memory foam from the Elite series.

Dekoni Choice Hybrid is a combination of soft, supple synthetic suede and synthetic leather. Its sheen velour and leather looks and feels incredibly gentle on the skin.

Dekoni Choice hybrid has Choice Leather on the exterior, Choice Suede on the face which touches your ears, and Choice Leather with fenestration on the interior.