No worries. As standard the HE-500s come with one set of pleather pads and one set of velour. You can actually buy the focus pads from Hifiman's official store too (https://store.hifiman.com/index.php/focuspad.html) if you wanted to. I personally have bought them from Amazon and eBay before and...

Don't think you can get a hold of the *official* Jerg ones. But the closest thing to them is the focus pads which you can get from here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Upgrade-Velvet-Ear-Pads-Cushion-For-HE-300-400-500-560-HE-4-6-5-5LE-Headphones/251638883826

I've been periodically checking up on any news on the Gustard H20 (currently still in love with my H10). It looks like there's another seller of the H20 on AliExpress for £770...

On to?

Hi! I received my V5i's full boat in the post today. Came directly from Hong Kong, I imagine they either all come from there or they were just produced and sent out directly from their warehouse before being sent to Australia. I'll post a pic as I had some confusion trying to put them in:  ...

Did you get a dispatch email when they sent yours? I haven't received anything from them since I ordered.

I just ordered a pair of singles and duals. Interested in your thoughts on how significant the difference is with just singles. What headphones do your run out of your H10?

  Hmmm. Strange that they'd recommend 16V ones then if that's what they'd measured. Will enquire further regarding this and see what they have to say.

  I thought they measured up to 15V with the H10's. But they did then later say we should run with only +6 or +12 gain only to ensure no problems with the duals.

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Anybody gone and ordered the newer V5i's? Was just recommended them by Dennis from Burson as I was looking for an opamp upgrade on a budget (these seem to be quite a bit cheaper). Looks like the whole package has been shrunk down in size and now the surround of the opamps are metal to allow...

Quote:     They have time to post to Head-Fi though..... So unless they have a massive number of emails to sift through, fperra should have got a response no?

How many times have you contacted them?

Also interested in this. Quite a few pages ago there was news of a H20 but has been silent ever since.

Quite a nicely written guide. For some reason I just didn't consider Burson saw the $ sign and just disregarded it as not shipping to UK but see on the bottom they do international post. Will shoot them an email see if they can quote me a deal incl taxes. Thanks!   In response to edit: I can...

  Can't really do that mate, I'm in the UK and as far as I can see from the Burson site there aren't any distributors in the UK for them. Only way for me to get my hands on them is a seller on eBay shipping them from Germany  (and one from Australia) And as such have no idea if they'll be the...

  Thanks for this. I've owned the Gustard for about 6 months now and I'm quite happy with the pairing with my HE500's. I was wondering about getting them as I was hoping to squeeze as much juice out of the amp as I possibly could as my next headphone upgrade was to be either the Audeze LCD2.2...

Quote:     Do you find the difference between the H10 + HE500 with the full V5's is worth it compared to just the H10 without the V5's (ofc completely subjective as to what's worth it but in your honest opinion)?   I'm quite satisfied with my combo without but interested maybe in the...

Just bought the Focus pads for my HE-500's. Being perfectly honest I can't hear any difference between these and the the original velour pads that were on them. I can understand if people do due to the angular shape of the pads meaning they bear similarity to Audeze's where the sounds is more...

  I use mine with an Epiphany Acoustics' E-DAC (may be better known as Objective 2 ODAC revB in the US). A lot of the reviews for it seem to point to what you're saying that there is very little difference between much more expensive DACs and the ones which can be had for around $200. I...

Best of luck with that.

That's not a pretty option is it. Alternatively contact your supplier and see what they can do for you.   My HE-500's are also "faulty" right now but my problem is related to the screw above the driver (connecting it to the headband) and wondered if it was the same as yours. I'm also finding...

No idea to be honest, but you can probably contact HFM and they'll probably send out a replacement part. Would you mind posting some pics though just to get an idea of which bit you mean?

Thanks for the response, that's probably a good method of thinking. Considering the H20 is actually being designed and not completely based off the Violectric v200 with modifications it's probably going to cost more. Ordering the H10 now.

Hi,   I'm just about to pull the trigger on buying the Gustard H10 to pair with my HE-500's from Pollychen Is this a good idea or is waiting for the H20 a better idea. Keeping in mind I don't want to pay any more than what it's currently costing? Also, from reading....a lot....this appears...