This happens with all the Sennheisers I have here, including the HD800S. I'm not positive stretching will do any good when the pain is located at the top of the head. The tricks I use: Keep moving the headband front to back (and vice-versa), always to a region of no pain. I may repeat that...

YT Music -> Liquid Platinum DAC -> Liquid Platinum -> HD800S

Am I missing something? :eyes:

YT Music -> Liquid Platinum DAC -> Liquid Spark -> FiiO FH9

Did you ever have to replace the spring within the female side of the connectors?

I too like the sound more when the stock pads start to flat out. As for the pain, it went away after developing the (HD-6 series) cauliflower ears. :smile: All the (Elite version) Dekoni pads I have purchased ended up back in their boxes. The sheepskin leather variations I have (solid and...

The FH9 simply checks all the boxes for me. No tweaks needed whatsoever. I use mine every 2 weeks (or more) on purpose. And every single time I try them there's the WOW factor. For me, the key to this hobby is diversity, i.e., a collection with multiple sound signatures. FiiO will have to work...

Unity is way more convenient as a combo. Ended up not comparing both, sound-wise. Briefly compared the Heretic against the Liquid Spark though. Aside from the channel imbalance issue, I would certainly fail in a blind test. Maybe with time I would be able to spot differences, but I'm not...

The Heretic I had here is already on its way back to TX. Tried it a last time this morning and the channel imbalance was definitely there. 25% of the "last call price" was gone in a shipping label. Now I truly hope they're able to reproduce the issue onsite, otherwise there will also be a 15%...

Clean desk. Now we're talking... 🥰 I thought I would get rid of the attenuator, but nope. Office environment is so quiet that the -10dB given by this Magni (a.k.a. low gain) is simply not enough to have granularity in the volume control.

The good news: I'm happy I did the A/B against the LS. The bad news: I was awarded with a faulty unit. :sob: Same here. Pulled up my tooling and it has a measurable difference of at least 1dB, according to the decibel meter. How did this end for you? Did you get a new unit? It is my turn...

YT Music -> Liquid Platinum DAC -> Schiit Magni Heretic -> DT770 PRO 250 ohm

YT Music -> Liquid Platinum DAC -> Schiit Magni Heretic -> HD660S2

When I plug a high impedance Sennheiser, this is what these little Magnis remind me of: It can drive the S2 great at loud levels without start falling apart though. Still a ton of headroom left to my listening levels. The S2 is objectively better, a.k.a. less distortion, and has more...

I do the Type E on a rotation basis and I don't have the other models. But I find them a little too soft for longer runs. My left ear tend to spit it out, but can also do deeper insertions in short time spans though. Received their TWS version a couple of days ago. Good alternative to the other...

I did once, but it was with an old 6XX I had lying around. Weirdly enough, it did reminded the Shure. :smile: Comfort was nice, but felt nothing special about it sound-wise, so I went back to stock.

YT Music -> Liquid Platinum DAC -> Schiit Magni Heretic -> FiiO FD7