Hey I'm using the fiio e17 to drive the he-400's and most of the time it does a good job as far as I can tell. They say it drives them to about 85% on the he400 thread. However when I am gaming I use the headphone jack on my tv to connect to the e17s auxillary and then to the he400's. It starts...

Quote: Yeah I read the whole thing about the pleather mods, but i thought they were a new kind of pad when I saw them labeled as leather

when I ordered my pair from head-direct, I saw that they have Hifiman leather pads and that they come with my order instead of velours. Has anybody tried the leathers?

I know that since these are open they will not do nearly as good of a job at sound leakage as closed, but will everyone be able to hear exactly what I'm listening to in a quiet room? or are they not quite that bad. 

I bought them from headphonebar.com in Vancouver. However for some reason it said they didn't actually have them in yet so my purchase was a pre-order. That information makes me want to cancel and go from headamp though... Thanks haha

Quote:   thanks I'm just wondering because I recently pulled the trigger on the He-400 but almost bought the fa-011 first. The only thing that deterred me was the reports of poor quality control, long shipping times and the fact that I might get hit with hidden charges such as tariffs...

Has anyone have any comparisons between these and the He-400's? 

Quote: Yeah I'm really looking forward to it. 

just pulled the trigger on these with velour pads included. I'm looking for a significant upgrade from srh-840 and hopefully this is the end of the road for me. My wallet considers the 450 canadian to be a pretty significant hit :P I've heard that my fiio e17 isn't able to bring out the full...

The bose wave music system demo cd! Haha. It's a clever marketing technique to make your system sound good by playing things you wouldn't normally hear through other systems such as a recorded thunderstorm, a handbell choir, classical pieces played for the specific purpose of recording in a...

Thats sweet considering the price difference

considerable upgrade from srh 840's though? I'm not at all looking for a neutral sound, I would like it to be more on the fun side

okay so I don't have time to read through all 125 pages but from what I have read I have noticed that these perform exceptionally for the price point. I'm wondering what price point they can compete with because I want an open bass heavy can that is a significant upgrade from Shure srh840 in...

Yah it was my mistake. It felt solid down there and when I forced it a bit and it didn't go in, I didn't want to wreck anything but i just needed to push a bit harder :)

yah it feels like its at the bottom of the Fiio, but the hole seems kind of shallow because when I plug the headphones into my iPod it goes in further and clicks in. idk maybe it's just these headphones...

I just got my e17 and it is wicked! Opens my srh840's so much! One little problem I have is with the headphone output jack though. It seems like my headphones can't fit in all the way. It goes in to get the signal, but it doesn't click in place so when I move around it wiggles out a little bit...

I just don't understand how they can be better when these already go beyond the 44.1 khz of cd's. I can look that up though so don't waste your time haha. Anyway I think I am going to get the e17 over the e11 and e10 because I like how it's just one device instead of two. I also like the fact...

ok so then what is the difference between a cheaper dac like the e10 and some of the higher end expensive ones? If the e10 already processes beyond what audio files require of it, then why do high end DAC's even exist?

So is the DAC on the e10 the same as the one on the e17?

Oh sorry I meant an improvement over just an iPod Nano with no amp. 

Has anybody tried the DAC function with the Shure srh-840? Would this be a good improvement for those?

hahahaha theres no way I'm paying 895$ which is the price on music direct. Thanks for the dream though, I'm sure it would sound beautiful.

how much does that cost? I didn't see the price on the website and its not on amazon. 

ok so after researching apparently apple requires a special chip to bipass the internal DAC and that's why devices that can such as the istreamer cost so much. Because they have to buy the rights from apple. In light of that I've kind of giving up on the idea of a DAC for the ipod because after...

What about the Fiio e10? that is advertised as being a DAC and headphone amplifier. Is the problem that it doesn't connect to my iPod or something?