**Hifiman HE-400 Impressions and Discussion Thread** - Page 382

Excellent track for the HE-400s Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane [spotify link]

Well, I've read that the Lyr is V-shaped too, I don't know if it's right though, I never tried it. But anyway some tubes could change that sound signature I guess.

Is this a matter of me just being midcentric and unwilling to accept the flaws of this headphone, am I sensative to sibliance, or is this perhaps an issue with my particular pair of he-400.  I am using MOG 320 kbs files for music.  Though I have tried cds and still experience this issue.

Also, one other question.  Does anyone feel some give on the grill on the outside of their headphone.  My right grill is very flush with the cup; however, my left grill sticks out slightly and when I press lightly on it there is some give.  It doesn't seem to affect sound at all, but I was just wondering.

With the exception of the sibliance, I am falling in love with these headphones; however, I just can't stomach this issue.  And now unfortunately that my awareness is raised I'm always attending for it rather than immersing myself in the music. Help!! I want to love these!

Which part? That i'm hearing Bob Marley?

And no, i'm not smoking anything, if that's what you're thinking   just eating some hashish pie. Maybe that's why i'm not hearing sibilance anymore

No.  The part about what was happening inside your pants was T.M.I.  

So since I only got one vote, the HE-300 were shipped off and will be disassembled and painted this week. The color? Pink.

I'm going to build my fiancee's introductory system out of the HE-300, and I may as well make it pink for her. Will be switching her music library to flac and giving her my Fiio E17.

But yes. Get ready to see some pink HE-300 as a proof of concept that my buddy won't break headphones taking them apart lol. After that: HE-400.

Amen to that

Would love to see that. Never got around to getting red spray paint for the HE-400s.

Here's the headphone stand I've been working on lately. More details over here!

Okay, so I've had these for a couple of days and I have pretty much listened to stuff on them continuously for these past days. If there's anything I could say about them, if I were to kind of make up descriptive words as I go along to describe what I'm hearing, I would say that the sounds are kind of dark. Indeed I do hear things very clearly, and different sounds really seem to stand out on their own, where as with my old headphones perhaps they would meld together with all of the sounds, and for lack of better words not creating as immersive an experience. With these headphones I think I am starting to feel a burn in, of my mind if you will. Back peddling to what I said about "Dark sound." It's not a completely lush and colorful sound. If there's a song with guitar and bass, I don't hear how they would otherwise be audible. I kind of feel like I'm almost having to strain myself sometimes to hear these instruments when they are lower in the mix. However I try to be completely honest and open minded, I am still learning and more or less picking up more noticeable differences between these headphones and my old ones. One thing that is more audible than the acoustics are the percussions. I'm wondering if this is because of my lack of an amplifier. I am using nothing but a DAC (I hooked the headphones in through an RCA adapter), and I have been told that when I plug it into an amplifier the sound will "come alive." Yet some have told me it won't make much of a difference at all. I guess I'll have to wait and see. I'd still like some inputs though. Thanks.

I can't say for sure how much of an improvement you'll get with an amp with the dac, but a dac by itself is in no appropriate way to amplify something.  It delivers a line source with very high impedance.