HifiMAN HE-6 Planar Magnetic Headphone - Page 207

To be fair, my HE-6 is cosmetically perfect, and error-free so far. The only issue I have experienced is static electricity that has occasionally come through the earcup, it's quite shocking to the ear actually. I have experienced this on other headphones before, but never anywhere near the frequency of the HE-6.

wow..... this is kinda disheartening to hear about these, especially especially at that price...

 

^^ wait till you hear my story.!!

if id my situation does not get better in few days , i will go public :( 

 

 

 

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grokit,   I'm not trying to start any arguments but why are you defending this relatively high dollar headphone manufacturer for just plain poor workman ship/ quality control issues??? In the post before you say something to the effect of "It's just growing pains"  Hey I think the members of Head-Fi who are thinking of spending their hard earned bucks on these cans that have been so "highly praised" should know some of their pit falls also, don't you????? Like I said, I'd be pissed off if I had a pr of these and had to pay to send them back to be fixed, for many of the same issues that they've seen before and are "Quick Fixing" the same design problems......just wondering......

 

 

I think his statement was that his pair weren't cosmetically damaged. I'm reading a lot of damage stories, so a few 'non damaged' are also encouraging so see. I think his earlier statement was intended to aim along the lines of hifiman working out the "kinks" of packaging.

These can are worth the Possible hassles but I agree that a world class product needs world class service and delivery too.

 

 

All I said was that while they're not perfect, they seem to be trying. I did say that I went through two bad HE-5s before I got a good one, and that the process of getting that good one left a bit to be desired. I also said that I paid to send them back three times, one of those times totally unnecessarily. Then I said that my HE-6 seems okay but is not without issue either, as in little lightning bolts flying into my right ear. How is that defending a company?

 

I suppose for a while I felt that they owed me $100 for the return shipping of the HE-5 three times, but then they gave me the additional $100 rebate when I got the HE-6 along with the $200 introductory discount so I do feel that the account has been balanced for the most part.

 

That's the first time I've been criticized for not being critical enough though 

Edited by grokit - 3/6/11 at 3:27am

 

 

The introductory discount and $100 rebate seem quite lackluster when they're selling them for $899 anyway.
 

 

 

While my tube amps have been warming up in the morning I have been using the HE6 on my marantz SA8004 and I am, shocked the Marantz can drive them. I would say they play at about 85-90DB with no clipping or distortion and sound good. I listened for 45 minutes this morning and I am amazed at the results. So I anm happy that not only is the Marantz and outstanding redbook and SACD player but it has a great headphone amp. Kudos to marantz for thinking outside the box and producing a great product.

 

I consider this a design quirk, not a defect, IMO, in that ALL of the HE-6 do this.  At first the adjusters return to their smallest position, but after time, they stay where they are set.  It is not possible to return them and get a different pair that fixes this problem because they ALL have this problem, based on what has been posted here.

 

Yeah that static issue bugs me too, but I have had it with other cans.  I'm not sure why the HE-6 seem to be more prone to this than other headphones.  It's an annoyance, but not sure how Hifiman could have avoided it.

 

I'm using a small  Neco Mosfet desktop amp to burn-in my new Oppo BDP-95. This amp has a rating of 11.84 peak voltage, 215mA, 2.55 watts into 55 Ohms. With gain 2 set at 10.5, it can drive the 50 Ohm HE-6 pretty well, no distortion at all. I set its vol at max and use the 95's vol control setting between 40 to 55, depending on how loud I want to listen. This is a nice and not too expensive amp.

Have you looked into what happens when you drop the volume on the 95 below 85%.

 

 

I only set it between 40 to 55. I tried 90 and 95, the sound becomes tilted to the highs, which I don't like. At 40 to 55 the sound is very natural and well balanced.

Edited by wuwhere - 3/6/11 at 8:15am

I just got my Oppo BD-95. I saw the volume control function, but if it is a digital volume control, meaning the volume is reduced in the digital domain, anything below 100% will be reducing resolution.