The NEW JVC HA-S400. Affordable Carbon Nanotube cans for the masses. - Page 2

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Originally Posted by sfwalcer 

haha I'll try my best to understand and implement it. LoL  Need to use this method to burn my FX40s "to hell" as rickdohc would say.

 

OMG the white ones are so sexy!!! I'll getting them for sure, and thanks ghost for taking the dive into these S400s. I can't imagine how they can be EVEN more light/ comfortable than the feather-light S500s but I'll take your word for it.  Oh I wanna ask you how do the foam? pads on the headband in the S400s compare to the S500s comfort wise? Cuz the pleather ones on the S500s are so soft and nice, so I wouldn't think the foam ones on the S400s would be as good. 

The S500 has the more luxurious and softer pleather headband padding when you feel them by hand, the S400's bare foam feels a little firmer, however when worn on the head, I couldn't feel that they are more uncomfortable due to the lighter weight of the S400.

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Originally Posted by analogsurviver 

Thank you Ghostfit for the answer !

 

Part 2 of burn in cookbook style posted in appropriate thread.

 

"Fish" thing explained : Chinese have a saying that by giving a hungry person a fish is to feed that person for a day; by teaching that person how to catch fish is feeding that person for a lifetime.

 

I could easily start advertising headphone burn in and do it either pro bono or charge for my service = "giving you a fish", or in this case a single pair of properly burnt in phones. I chose to teach you all how you can do it by yourself instead , giving you the possibility to properly burn in all your present and future phones = "feeding you for a lifetime".

 

As always, enjoy your music !

Thanks you my friend, I will try and see if I can catch any fish then !

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Originally Posted by Ralox 

I wonder how close the performance of these cans are compared to the HA-S500 because they're only $20 apart.

Out of the box surprisingly, I would say they're pretty close, they have about 70% of the S500's bass and highs, 80% of the S500's mids, as for comparision between the 2, refer below.

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Originally Posted by rickdohc 

I want to know how are the treble and the mids compared to the s500.

I sneak a peek listen to the S400 at the 50hrs burn and have to report that the sound at this point is incoherent !!!   ...the bass has gone muddy, mids are like the singer is shouting and treble has almost disappeared.

So much for the pretty good sounds I heard on open box, but I know this is due to the carbon nano tubes flexing and orientating themselves as more burning takes place so that the final setting would be the SQ that CNT are know for.

Next sneak peek at the 100hrs mark.

Listened to them again last nite and I must say I'm really liking them a whole lot !

The impressive SQ I heard on open box is back with a vengence. The mid bass has tamed down a little but the sub bass has gone deeper, Mids are much more mellower and the lower mids has distanced itself from the bass such that vocals are very distinct, highs and trebles now have better defination and a sparkle that's just below the level of the FXD80.

I love the sound signature of the S500 but I don't remember them to be as immersive as what I heard from the S400 last nite. I can't exactly put my finger on why it is that I am falling in love with this sound. I will do an A/B evaluation of the S400 and S500 tonight to try and figure this out.

Okay, did an A/B comparision between the S400 and it's elder brother the S500 last nite.

The S500 has been very good for me until the S400 came along, you might say the 100hrs odd burn in S400 showed where the minor flaws were in the S500, these were not apparent unless one was listening to the S500 and then switched over to the S400 listening to the same source material.

Coming from the S500 to the S400, it did not take 20min for me to adjust to the sound signature of the S400, the difference was almost immediate. The bass of the S500 was more prominant, sub-bass was about the same for both when it was called upon. I would not call either of them Bass-head levels, the S500 excels in reproducing explosion and canons bursts whereas the S400 are better at drums and percussion instruments, bass plucks have a very nice full body to them, for me, the S400 has the right amount of quality bass for music listening and the S500 are better for watching movies. 

The biggest difference was in the mids, althought the S500 has got decent enough mids, the S400 mids really stands out and makes the S500's mids seems strange, perhaps due to some missing freqs. Listening to the S400, I could almost swear I heard the saliva flying out of the singer's mouth on certain rock tracks. Notes separation on the mids are also prominant, I could clearly differentiate pianos and guitars. Males and females vocals sounds just about right to me whereas the S500 colouration can make some deep females vocals sound male, those of you with the FXD80 will know what I'm talking about when you compare them to the S500.

For the highs, S400 has got better spackles compared to the S500's which sounds flatter. Cymbals and snarl hits have a nice snap to them and somehow sounds cleaner.

I am hearing quite a fair bit of new details in the highs with the S400 which I have not heard before

Soundstage is where the S500 trumps the S400 but not by much, the S500 stage is much wider than the S400 but on certain tracks, the S400's stage seems deeper.

I'll definately go to the S400 now for music listerning, but for watching movies and gaming, the S500 are my preferred headphones.