SilverEars
Headphoneus Supremus
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Oh yes, this is important. It'st not easy to drive. It's one of the more difficult ones. Consider a pretty decently hefty amp.
HE560, HE400i, HE400S and HE350 (massdrop) are all the same and with some minor work the HE400/500 headbands will also work.Does anyone know if other headbands from hifiman headphones would fit the HE560. For example an HE350 headband ? Thanks.
HE560, HE400i, HE400S and HE350 (massdrop) are all the same and with some minor work the HE400/500 headbands will also work.
Unfortunately I've been struck with the HE560 cracking yoke syndrome.
I've requested a return with Adorama. I'm a bit torn though as these sound really good. Absolutely the most refined sound of any of Hifman model I've tried. I'm sure most of us can agree that Hifiman man not win any awards for build quality but the trend that is developing with these later build HE-560s seems to be a little disconcerting. At this point I don't think I want to mess with a replacement yoke as the replacement might break and then there is the possibility of sudden driver death. I have several other good pairs of headphones including other Hifiman models which have been running strong for a couple years now. I think I'll just stick to what I have now and wait for a good deal on a used pair of HE-500s or possibly some Elears if the price on those get a little sweeter.
The longest surviving would be about 4.5 years old since the HE560 came out in late 2013 IIRC. My 2 HE560 are from Feb 2014 and Jul 2014, both are the older SMC jack versions.I wonder who owns the oldest (longest-surviving) HE-560? I got mine in mid December 2017, so it's like 2 months old.
Well, it happened. My HE-560s (from the Adorama deal) gave up the ghost. First, a week or so ago, one of the gimbals cracked, which seems to happen to everyone. No biggie. I took the gimbals off and shored up both sides with some heat-shrink. Well, now it seems the left driver decided it didn't want to live any more and committed seppuku while still on my head. So it's dead. There are a few postmortem twitches every now and again (sound comes back) but it barely lasts half a song, if that.
To make matters worse, they died JUST outside of the 30 day window. I am not pleased. I don't know what HiFiMan is doing but their QC is the worst I've seen, which is a shame because these things sounded damn good. I don't even know if I want to deal with the hassle of returning them, only to possibly have to go through this again in another month or two.
I don't think it's that either. I got mine when the price first dropped to around $500 USD, and they have the 2.5's. Have had no problems at all with them. I really think someone is cutting corners in every way possible somewhere. Bad plastics being used, bad wiring. I know if this was going on and i didn't have my pair yet, it would put me off of buying them.I swear it feels like people are complaining more about these dying after the change to the 2.5mm connection. Not saying that's the cause of the problem, but seems like HE-560s from the SMC era are holding up better than afterwards. Wonder if they started slacking on QC measures even more after that switch. @DavidA doesn't have a problem with his SMC-connector version (do you still have yours or is it now someone else's, but you just still have access to it?) and I'd probably bet the one I sold isn't having a problem either.