HIFIMAN HE1000 Review & Modification Notes           Allow me to preface this write-up by saying, this review has taken a while to materialize largely due to personal reasons (busy time in my life with graduate school deadlines).   I decided to embed my notes about potential modifications within the review rather than make a separate post or thread about it, as they are in my opinion fairly straight-forward mods that don’t need their own personal spotlight.   Hope everyone has an enjoyable read.       Durability, Design, & Ergonomics...

The test unit has been in my hands for a week or two now and I feel it's due time to share some organized thoughts on these cans.       Build & Ergonomics   *** Readers are recommended to read Build&Ergonomics portion of my HE560 review, as HE400i shares majority of its external components with HE560, and I don’t want redundancy so HE560’s writeup will retain a portion of the physical description and my opinion on various parts of the shared physical build.   Cups   The HE400is use the tried-and-true resin plastic cups, in this case with a...

Without further a-do, I'll get right into it. (My HE560 thread has some preface words etc)       Build & Ergonomics   Cups   The finalized take on HE560 cups is a matte-plastic-and-veneer finish, with the body of the cup being plastic much similar to other Hifiman cans, but a Macassar ebony wood veneer wrapped around as largely a design accent.   To my knowledge, this was largely a compromising decision made so that cup reliability over the long term will stay stable. Solid teak wood used for early HE560 units suffered some visual/matching...