HifiMAN HE-6 Planar Magnetic Headphone
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I've seen a lot of vintage receivers, but has anyone hooked these up to a more modern receiver with much luck?
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Not sure if this counts as a "modern" receiver, but I've tried my HE-6 from the speaker taps of an Outlaw Audio RR2150. I didn't take any notes about the pairing, but I remember thinking it was a little lean in the bass AND that the HE-6 sounded much better from the headphone out of the vintage receiver I also had hooked up at the time, a Pioneer SX-1050.
I've since acquired the HifiMan HE Adapter and intend to try the RR2150 again sometime soon.
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I tried my Onkyo TX 705 with my HE6's, of-course it will power the HE6 but as with most speaker amps leaves you wanting for more.
My Liquid Fire with my nos Siemens/Halske 6922=E88CC=CCa early 60's set is the best amp (with my rig) I have heard using my HE6's.
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Agreed. The Siemens CCa really bring out the bass in the HE-6. I liked Mullard CV2943s as well, but the price for their sweet midrange was rather anemic bass. Not so with the CCa.
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UPDATE. I must take that back about what I was saying, the WA5LE using my WE300B's and TSRP 6SN7GT's along with my upgraded HDMI out connection for my Realiser and my W4S DAC, my WA5LE is the batter amp with my HE6's. And I know find I can use the high imp port without much loss in sound-staging. I had not tried my WA5LE with the updated Realiser and the W4S DAC.
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Yes even more so than my WA5LE. With my WA5LE I had to use the low imp jack to bring out better back ground detail, with my Liquid Fire there doesn't seem to be any difference using the High or Low imp jack, except for the volume level of-course. So I use the High imp jack on my LF for my HE6's, there by allowing me to lower the dB level on my Realiser and that takes care of the LFE Ch's low rumbling bass in rare cases there was distortion, without a LFE Ch there was NP.
The differences are that the LF is a faster amp and has better direction on were the sounds are coming from along with a little better layering.
Some amps are just lean regardless of their power rating. That's just the way they were designed. Some amps start to sound lean as you turn down the volume.
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Having owned the 2150 and a Pioneer SX980 I thought the Outlaw was a great receiver but the Pioneer was in another league. The Pioneer were overbuilt receivers IMO never equalled again by any other manufacturer.
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Some more impressions of the the HE-6 from the Vancouver meet.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/584371/vancouver-head-fi-meet-january-14-2012/30#post_8061728
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Looks like your setup is a hit, gurus. What kind of amp is that in the meet pictures & your avatar?
And is your HE-6 hardwired by Zues or just a custom cable?
And is your HE-6 hardwired by Zues or just a custom cable?
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