[automaton]

 
Had them both side by side for a month.  HE-400 for me was the clear winner mostly due to the bass. 

Hmmm...will be interested in doing the side-by-side comparison.  Whichever loses out I'll be putting up for sale.  How's the soundstage?  The HE-400 are great for music, but not awesome for gaming (compared to DT-990, which are my go-to gaming headphones).  

 

[Oregonian]

  Hmmm...will be interested in doing the side-by-side comparison.  Whichever loses out I'll be putting up for sale.  How's the soundstage?  The HE-400 are great for music, but not awesome for gaming (compared to DT-990, which are my go-to gaming headphones).  

I have the "remove grill and all innards" mod and think the soundstage is excellent.  I don't game so can't comment there. 

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

 
I have the "remove grill and all innards" mod and think the soundstage is excellent.  I don't game so can't comment there. 

What is the link to this mod?

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

Well I just got a reply:
 
Dear Customer.
 
Terribly sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please refer to the shipping label in the attachment. We will cover the shipping fee of sending the package back to us. 
 
Please ship your defective item to our United States address:

HIFIMAN Electronics
Service department
711 Dawson Drive,
Newark, DE 19713
1-201-443-4626
United States

 

[Oregonian]

  What is the link to this mod?

http://www.head-fi.org/t/619447/hifiman-regrilling-mod

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

Oh that, ok nothing new. Thought there was something new or different from another thread on Head-Fi. Thanks though.

 

[MermaidMan]

Ugh. Clearing up funds for Christmas and have to sell mine. I'll probably end up getting some this summer. For anyone looking, mine are up in the FS forum with mods. 

 

[henree]

Headphone snapped into two. This plastic piece that is attached to the sizeing bar. Anyone know the best way to fix this issue?
 
 

 

[Lohb]

You need a new headband from HFM. Not an easy fix the way the old band was made.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

I miss my HE-400 and wish these were still sold new somewhere. I'd buy them in a heartbeat.

 

[MarcelE]

There may be some places where they are still sold new, but it's probably getting real rare now.
Thankfully I could buy a new one here in Europe last summer.

 

[Sam21]

the HIFIMAN website sells it, I bought mine from there.
 
EDIT:seems like they are no longer in their store..sorry.

 

[ColonelBucket8]

That's unfortunate. I got a new one 4 weeks ago for 230 bucks. That's steal

 

[vapman]

New member of team OG HE-400 here. Got some velour pads as well as the stock pleathers, but haven't even gotten around to trying them with the velours yet.
I've been enjoying it out of my Project Polaris (mellow bandwidth) on low resistance, which  means I'm getting about 2W output.
When using on higher resistance I had to turn the volume very high to get adequate volume level, so these cans are definitely juice hogs
I hope I can give them an amp that'll be able to push above 2.5w into these bad boys.
I'm really loving the sub bass response on these.
 
They have nearly electrostatic levels of clarity. I often find myself rewinding to hear if my headphones are messed up or I'm hearing imperfections in the recordings I never noticed before.
 
Reading thru the thread, but is anyone swapping earpads on these with non Hifiman pads?
 
These headphones certainly do not disappoint. Now that I own these, I am incredibly curious to buy an amp with hardware bass boost to see how far I can push these.
 
The Audeze Vegan pads would be great but... $80 for pads? god damn...
 

 
P.S. do the cardas cables make a difference?

 

[Oregonian]

I'm running Audeze Vegan pads on my HE-400 and tried their lambskin version as well.  Found them for sale (new) for $50 on the for sale board.............come up for sale pretty regularly and to me it's worth even the $80.