New Hifiman Headphone HE-400 is out - Page 363

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Originally Posted by palmfish 

Yup, it must be a planar thing - every PM headphone I've auditioned has exhibited (in varying degrees) a thick midrange I don't like.

 

You can bet I'll be at the next meet up there and I'll have my Denon's with me. I would love for you to listen to them.

What level did you get done from MarkL.  Have have two pair 7000 and 5000.  However, would like to know, will it be worth it if I keep my current cups and my current cables?

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Originally Posted by palmfish 

Yup, it must be a planar thing - every PM headphone I've auditioned has exhibited (in varying degrees) a thick midrange I don't like.

 

You can bet I'll be at the next meet up there and I'll have my Denon's with me. I would love for you to listen to them.

Great! By next meet, I'll probably have the HE-6 to bring as well. I'd love to hear them paired up with that Carver receiver you bought last time! If you don't like those, I guess we can cross out planars entirely. 

A stupid question: what are the MarkL mods, exactly?

http://www.lawtonaudio.com/page52.html ^^

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Originally Posted by MattTCG 

http://www.lawtonaudio.com/page52.html ^^

Ah, knew about the pads already, as they're quite popular, but didn't know they had an entire mod as well. Looks pretty, but what specifically do they do though?

The mod is designed to take the brightness off the treble, smooth out and expand the mids and give that wild bass some serious texture...as I understand it. 

I have the level 1 mod. I don't like the earpads as they make the treble too hot. Bass is nicely controlled and textured with the dampening however.

Just received mine from Justin @ Headamp. Great service, great product. Cant wait to hear these babies after a few hours of burn in. How much burn-in have you guys found is sufficient? 

Wow, having a bit of a mixed experience here. One channel died on me and I sent my pair back to the store.

I now recieved them with the channel fixed. I then plug them in to discover a channel imbalance like no other, so I start trying all sorts of equipment with no real progress.

I then out of desperation switch back to velour pads (I sent them to the shop with original pleathers on). After putting the velours back on the channel was dead again.

Annoyed I put them down for a little while.

And now I just tried loosening and putting back again the connector to the dead driver. Surprise! It works and the channel imbalance is gone!

What gives? And what now? I dare not move or even think about taking them off.

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Originally Posted by Hakone 

Wow, having a bit of a mixed experience here. One channel died on me and I sent my pair back to the store.

I now recieved them with the channel fixed. I then plug them in to discover a channel imbalance like no other, so I start trying all sorts of equipment with no real progress.

 

I then out of desperation switch back to velour pads (I sent them to the shop with original pleathers on). After putting the velours back on the channel was dead again.

Annoyed I put them down for a little while.

 

And now I just tried loosening and putting back again the connector to the dead driver. Surprise! It works and the channel imbalance is gone!

What gives? And what now? I dare not move or even think about taking them off.

Same dead driver experience here, but no channel imbalance though.. http://www.head-fi.org/t/605113/he-500-review-and-shoot-out/495#post_8855268

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Originally Posted by zeinharis 

 

Same dead driver experience here, but no channel imbalance though.. http://www.head-fi.org/t/605113/he-500-review-and-shoot-out/495#post_8855268

Seems you too managed to ressurect the driver by unplugging and reconnecting the driver-side connection. Also, the problem should dissapear after a while of burning in whatever change was made at the shop?

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Originally Posted by Hakone 

Seems you too managed to ressurect the driver by unplugging and reconnecting the driver-side connection. Also, the problem should dissapear after a while of burning in whatever change was made at the shop?

Yes the problem with my HE-500 is gone. Give your HE-400 some time to see if the problem disappear after a few hours of use

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Originally Posted by beaver316 

 

I will be able to post impressions on that pairing as soon as my HE-400 arrive, but i have no idea when that will be. I've been waiting over two weeks now for them 

I just got them and have been listening for about 2 hours and they sound really good on the m-stage. So much instrument seperation and detail that you can get lost following one instrument and forget what part of the song you are in. I have no better way to describe how this combo sounds other than I really like it but I don't have anything else to try them through to compare. Hope you get them soon. FWIW I got the rev2 from moon audio so I'm assuming this is the one they have in stock for those worried that they'll get the ones with the yellow drivers.

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Originally Posted by Hakone 

Seems you too managed to ressurect the driver by unplugging and reconnecting the driver-side connection. Also, the problem should dissapear after a while of burning in whatever change was made at the shop?

My guess is you just didn't screw the cup connectors well enough; it's quite easy for the channel to cut out if the connection there is not 100% secure and tight.

Hmm, I've been listening to these for a while and found that on certain mid-bass notes the headphone has a mild rattling noise in the right ear with some distortion. Have any of you ever heard of this problem before? Do I have a faulty right driver? It doesn't happen all the time, just on songs with a lot of mid-bass. I'm listening to the kids don't stand a chance by vampire weekend(maybe someone can reproduce this noise?) and every bass note sounds kinda like if I left an aluminum can on top of my speakers.

If it happens the exact same time of same song, my bet it's the recording.