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...

Dear Everybody, I have updated the list of particiapants in post 1 of this thread and we have got another Englishman in the group now.   Regading the question of an HE-6 (or for that fact HE-5LE or HE-4) fitting on an Omega headphone stand: They fit nicely with cables attached as long as...

Dear Everybody,   sorry to keep you waiting but now the program is on the move again as we are sending out the revised version of the HE-6 to Tester AXELLONE today. It took longer than expected because a few changes were incorporated from things that we had learned. So this is what has...

Hi Everybody, Fang tells me the headphones should be on their way from China to Germany. So if DHL customs clearing is not throwing a nervous fit again and feels itself up to the task of actually using my customs and tax ID numbers together with my customer ID that they all have on file we...

Dear everybody, I am sorry for the long silence on this matter. There have been quite a number of discussions regarding the HE-6 and its looks all over the world and next week a new prototype should be finished that has got a very different finish and also small improvements to the magnetic...

Hi Everybody, we will need to put the program on hold for a little while.   User axellone has tried to drive the HE-6 with his Mark Levinson 331 power amplifier as I have asked him to do and the voltage swing must have been too much for the headphone.   We have got a solution for this...

Dear Head-Fiers, we have got 10 participants so far and I have closed the list for the simple reason that if we count in shipping time between countries this program might last until the end of October already.   The HE-6 has received a double cardboard box around its protective packaging...

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-6 loaner program. We have got one pre-production version of the HE-6 ready to ship out. As you can imagine the same rules apply that you have seen on Fang's post for the US...

Hi Everyone, these picture were taken during the High End 2010 in Munich, Germany. The High End is the biggest HiFi exhibition in Europe if you count size of venue and number of exhibitors. It is bigger than the HiFi part of CES. We were showing an early production model of the HE-5 LE in...