I suspect, nobody is interested anymore, after my first impressions. Nevertheless, here come the 1 1/2th impressions: Burn-in hasn't helped, yet. That's it. Sorry!

It's a pity, really - I had hoped to dig up something nice... <sigh> But let me add, that I'm actually very fond of this beyerdynamic DT531 - just in case, I haven't mentioned that, yet.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

thanks for the review Lini. I'm still interested in the HFI-15 myself, but it's too bad the 2000 wasn't much good.

nice review.....i somehow expected them to be sub-par...

Neruda: I still have the headset-version of the HFI-15 (with closed instead of open earcups; neglectible differences in sound according to Ultrasone) here, but I haven't managed to give them a proper listening, yet.

Instead, here are some more impressions on the HFI-2000: After I found that burn-in hasn't helped in my opinion, I gave the HFI-2000 to my friend Juergen (his usual setup: Thorens turntable with Yamaha MC-pickup (my old one... , Philips cdp, HK amp, AKG K501). He seconds my impressions: Comfort is ok, build quality is mediocre to poor (considering the price), sound is not bad in low volumes, but not very lively, and doesn't get any more exciting in higher and high volumes - and in-front representation (so called "FPS" technology) apparently didn't work for him, either. He said, in a shop he would have expected it somewhere in the 100 DM range. As I mentioned before, the HFI-2000 in fact costs around 460 DM. Quite a difference...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini