If you look at the full testing it included pad swaps, harmonic distortion, impedance and CSDs. They're not Devas based on all the measurements. Maybe based on the same underlying driver with tweaks, but not the same headphone with a new colorway. That's the question being addressed.
HFM is a public company, and so far one is able to voice ones opinions on politicians, products, ideas. You are free to call it griping. And I am free to point out in the past 2.5 years HFM has outright lied about its products HE-5SE and HE-6SE in relation to similarity to their namesakes. For some that doesn't matter, it does to me. So does the outcome of the only real question - does the 5XX bear a strong similarity to the HE-500? New Coke vs Coke Classic.
We are more disappointed than angry, the HE500 is something that competes with LCD2 and its ilk. An LCD2 beater for $250 would sell faster than Hifiman can make them.
When Audeze does a relaunch of an old model such as the LCD2 Classic, it does it properly. It doesn't put in an El-8 in a LCD2 chassis and send it out as an LCD2 Classic.
We are more disappointed than angry, the HE500 is something that competes with LCD2 and its ilk. An LCD2 beater for $250 would sell faster than Hifiman can make them.
When Audeze does a relaunch of an old model such as the LCD2 Classic, it does it properly. It doesn't put in an El-8 in a LCD2 chassis and send it out as an LCD2 Classic.
True. But at a certain point, it moves beyond simply expressing an opinion to griping and inflicting one's unhappiness on others. At least ten pages ago in this thread.
True. But at a certain point, it moves beyond simply expressing an opinion to griping and inflicting one's unhappiness on others. At least ten pages ago in this thread.
You want this to stop? Well you're doing your part to keep it going.
Unhappiness for me is mostly rooted in being lied to, I don't like it. I don't respect people who minimize/defend it. If I had as much respect for the best products of HFM as for BOSE, I wouldn't care, but HFM is capable of greatness, which is why their misleading marketing is so bloody obvious.
True. But at a certain point, it moves beyond simply expressing an opinion to griping and inflicting one's unhappiness on others. At least ten pages ago in this thread.
I agree with both sides. Yes, you should have the freedom to post criticism directed at Hifiman. But at the same time I understand the annoyance it creates for those who just want to read and write about sound impressions. Maybe this thread needs to be split up in two threads: "Drop Hifiman HE-5XX sound impressions only" and "Headphones marketing, the Do's and Don'ts".
HFM is a public company, and so far one is able to voice ones opinions on politicians, products, ideas. You are free to call it griping. And I am free to point out in the past 2.5 years HFM has outright lied about its products HE-5SE and HE-6SE in relation to similarity to their namesakes. For some that doesn't matter, it does to me. So does the outcome of the only real question - does the 5XX bear a strong similarity to the HE-500? New Coke vs Coke Classic.
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