mogulmaster
100+ Head-Fier
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Really? the he-400s have no advantages over the 500s? no head time for you eh
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It's not surprising as the 500 is about twice as expensive.
X2... not to mention you need to factor in the cost of a decent/powerful amp to drive them to their full potential. Same thing goes for the HE-4. I would love try them out, but they require a powerful amp and to sound their best.
Modular, I haven't tried the DT990's, so I can't say for sure. I wouldn't be one to call the HE-400's "V-shaped" though. They have a very flat response except for the upper mid recession, but 90+% of instruments and vocals that you'll be listening to are not going to be recessed fundamentally. As I mentioned, you're just going to lose a lot of harmonics from vocals and instruments that would normally give a more accurate timbre to the sound.
Thanks Thujone. My intro to "mid-fi" has been the DT880 250ohms. I'm leaning towards the HE I'm leaning towards the HE-400 as I already have a pretty flat headphone.
It's not surprising as the 500 is about twice as expensive.
he-400 is very close to he-500 (slightly better detail retrieval and timbre), you cant compare it to he-4, completely different headphone in every area, he-400 will sound too very similar on any genre - it has its own strong sound signature that is present everywhere, it's far away from transparency
the most annoying thing anyway in he-400 is strange upper mids peak which causes hearing fatigue after some time and unpleasant dynamic peaks in this area of frequency - with he-4 I can listen all day long without a hint of fatigue