Dear Everybody, I have received the return shipment of the HE-500 and it still is in pretty good shape. Thank you to everybody for taking good care of the unit and packaging it well before shipping. I think it is amazing that one can send a set of headphone to 10 people in different countries...

The HE-4 is basically an HE-5 LE with the magnetic structure on the backside of the transducer only. The HE-5 LE has got magnets on both sides of the driver. Thus the allegory to Single Ended is confusing if you have not held both units in your hands. It would be even more confusing if it said...

They are on their way from the UK to Sweden and it seems they have been on the way for quite some time now.   Best regards, Jan

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Dear Everybody, the list is all set now. Please do not send further applications. It will take at least another 2-3 month for this program to finish and I just hope Fang is not thinking of doing an EF6 loaner program as the shipping cost for that beast would be enormous!   I have arrranged...

Hi Everybody, the list is growing and the headphone is now on the way to the UK where it will be for the next 3 participants. That is to say that I have edited the list once again and we now got 9 Euro participants.   Enjoy, Jan

Thanks for the Heads-Up. Please post any links to reviews you do elsewhere in this thread as well. I would hate it if readers had the impression that the lazy Europeans are not commenting on the Headphones they receive in the loaner program.   Jan

Hi Everybody, the list of participants is slowly filling up and I would like to take this opportunity to remind all the participanat that the idea of this thread is for you to post your impressions on the HE-500. So far there has been very little of this in this thread and I certainly expect...

Dear Jazzy76 and Windsor, both of you are now included in the list. I am trying to make it as few interational border crossings as possible and then try for countries that are not too far away from each other. Thus the order of the list has changed somewhat.   Currently the HE-500 is in...

Hi again, there are two more picture I just need to share but could not do so before receiving permission from the young ladies Mom.   On one of the more busy days I suddenly had a young lady listening to the HE-6 and it seems she really enjoyed the music.   And if anybody ever...

The Program is officially starting now and we are still lookig for more participants. It seems since I have enforced that people MUST post their opinions on Head-Fi people are much less inclined to participate. The updated list of participants is in Post 1 of this thread.   Jan

Hi Everybody, I have got a few nice pictures to share. This is Fang with a prototype of the upcoming EF6. As you see it is a real beast and will weigh about 15 KG or 31 lbs for the people stateside.   Headphones attract all kind of people. Like radio station moderators who work for a...

Everybody is welcome! We are bringing Bremen made chocolate so that alone should be a reason to come. And then we are akin to the largest records booth which you won't want to miss.   See you in Munich!   Jan Sieveking

Dear Head-Fiers in the EU,   this is Jan Sieveking of Sieveking Sound and I am in charge of the EU side of the HE-500 loaner program. We shall have one earky production version of the HE-500 in a little while. As you can imagine the same rules apply that you have seen on Fang's post for the...

You did indeed get it wrong. The European program has started much later than the US program and we had a technical problem with the first demo unit which led to the inclusion of the speaker cable adaptor box for the current version. I returned the current unit to the last person who had not...