Awesome, thanks for the info!

How flexible would you say the cable is? My biggest complaint about my current cable is it's rather stiff. Not, you know, as stiff as the stock cable (which is borderline coat hanger wire stiff...) but still way more stiff than the Q-Audio cable I got for my LCD-2's.

I have a pair of HE-500's that are still going strong. The cable I'm currently using, frankly it's annoyingly stiff and I'm looking for a replacement. I had been looking to see if Q-Audio cables were still a thing (I have one on my LCD-2's) but it seems that business folded suddenly last year...

I listen to a lot of audio content when I'm at work and I've started to feel that my current setup (Audioquest DragonFly Red to Noble Audio Katanas) is letting me down and I'm putting my money on it being the DragonFly. Here's where I feel I'm being let down: Sound Stage. I've heard my Katanas...

I really do listen to everything. Lately it's been a combination of The Pogues (recently got back into them), some lo-fi hip-hop, some Punch Brothers, half a dozen different scores (TV and movies)... Often I just put my iTunes library (mostly 16/44 lossless but a growing chunk of 24/96) on...

Yeah, they were on my list but as I said I've not heard a lot about them. Oddly enough my company has an office in Portland so I could always go in next time I'm in the area. As for the Noble Sage it appears to be universal only and I explicitly don't want universals. Yeah, I think the...

I'm in the market for a new CIEM but I'm a little out of the loop on who's got the best offerings these days. I was hoping the good people in the Head-Fi community could recommend a CIEM to fit my needs. In general I like a more natural sounding headphone. I like good bass but only when it was...

I have a pair of Heir Audio 8.a's and recently the pins from the headphone have broken off inside. Great, right? Problem is when I went to HA's website every page gets hit with a malicious software issue. Between that and a few other factors I'm considering finding a third-party to make the...

Thanks for the info. I'll probably contact JH Audio, see what they say. Anyone else, any other suggestions?

Hmm. I suppose. Though I rarely get that very strong urge to replace my headphones. I've had my HE-500 for a few years now and have pretty much no desire to replace. How do you find the comfort with the cable from your Angies? I'm still on a search but aside from that damned cable I keep coming...

More if I get the right set of headphones I won't need to. It seems like an extra feature that I won't get much if any use out of.

I don't see the point of in-CIEM adjustable bass. And it has the same cable that I'm concerned about with the new JH 13. It's also more expensive and more than I'd prefer to pay.

How's the sound stage? One of the things I loved about the 13 was that wide sound stage, it's one of my favorite things about my HE-500 (though I don't expect any CIEM to come close to that).

I'm in the market for new CIEMs and was wondering what people thought of my options. Right now the possible lead contender is the JH Audio 16pro. My last CIEM was the 13pro and the Noble 4c before that. I currently own the Heir Audio 8.a and used to own the Heir Audio 4.a. In general, here were...

My office is looking at buying a in-office PA system. I got roped in because I'm probably the one who knows most about this sort of stuff (though almost nothing about this area of audio) so I was hoping you guys might know more. Basically, we do talks occasionally in the office and while before...

I tried it, it didn't even see almost any of my music. I have about 1,500 songs I wanted to sync. I saw 200 scattered amongst a few of my playlists. If you have the same problem try iSyncR, it works great.

I'm kind of new to Android and so far the biggest pain-point has been pretty much anything to do with audio playback... I'm an iOS convert so almost all of my music is ALAC, including several albums I have that are 24/96. I tried PowerAmp (seemed to be the most recommended audio app out there)...

I stopped looking after I got my Noble 4C. Given one's an open-back planar-magnetic and the other is a CIEM they're pretty close and I love the sound of both.

They wouldn't let me. :P

So a bit of follow up. Firstly, the guys at Hifiman are awesome. When I wrote up this post I figured even if I sent them back it was going to be a few hundred out of pocket at at that price I might as well look at my options. If I ended up buying something else I wasn't going to toss them, I...

They're two years old and the warranty is only one year, but it's worth a shot.

So I'm pretty sure my HE-500's have crapped out on me. The left side is dead and at first I thought it was the cable, but swapping that proved it wasn't... Then I thought it was the AMP/DAC, but using a different headphone proved it wasn't... Anyway, I find myself in the market for a...

So I recently bought the Noble Audio 4C and, to my ears, it's a pretty close match. Both have really natural sound and only give you thumping bass when it's actually supposed to be there. The one area the 4C doesn't keep up with the HE-500 is in sound stage, but that's to be expected given the...

To my ears the 4C is a grown-up 4.A. It's figured out what it's trying to be and it's been doing it long enough to have really be good at it. I actually prefer it's bass to my 8.A because the 8.A seemed to push a bit more bass into a song that was necessarily there. The 4C doesn't, it just gives...

Loving them. My one concern going in on the 4C was bass, whether or not it would be present enough. At this point I'd say the bass is fantastic. It's never too much and on tracks what it should be present it sounds like a sub in my head.