MattTCG
Headphoneus Supremus
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Out with fiio in with schitt!!
Why not - I did
Out with fiio in with schitt!!
This is not how I heard it and I won't take it back. At the moment, male vocals (I didn't try female for now) sound distant and muffled, which makes the presentation "heavy". You can get similar result when you turn up the subwoofer on a cheap 2.1 system while watching movies: the speech is hard to understand (again, the sound is heavy).
Either you have a very special pair of HE-400 or I have a faulty one, in my case, there is no comparison with my 500s in this regard. Period.
The HE-400 are just too dark for me for the moment. I might end up loving it as much as I love the 500s if something happens during burn-in, but for now, at least for the pair I have (which might not be the same as everyone's. Hifiman already showed some inconsistencies in their manufacturing process), the voicing is not entirely to my liking.
For those who haven't seen it yet, looks Schitt is at it again!! Could be a good one for the he400 and for $99 :eek:
http://schiit.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=13
Sweet baby Jesus. That and the Modi. I want them. NOW.
These devices cant be ignored. Looks like Schiit heard all that smack talk by the O2 crowd, and made this specifically to combat it.
Not sure on the Modi, but I may just end up with both... but Magni comes first. Time to put my E17 up for sale...again. If I ever need the portability, I may end up buying it for the 3rd time. Itd be nice to keep the Magni next to my gaming setup to help power my Mixamp. The SA-31 is too big, and too stationary for that.
for someone who loves mids and sub bass... which is better... he400 or he500??
HE500 definitely.
Much better sub-sub-bass (<30 Hz) extension and flat out better midrange.
Although HE400's overall bass response is a bit flatter and tighter. HE500's bass is great, but it can sound a tad loose compared to the best of the best in terms of visceral hard-hitting bass (e.g. LCD2/3, HE-6, and IMO HE400s). It shouldn't matter unless you are really into EDM that requires supreme bass tactility and speed though.
I didn't mean to drop a Period bomb on you. My sincerest apologies for that. I suppose this is just one of those head-fi mysterious then: two people hearing things dramatically different. But just out of curiosity would you mind playing something from Leonard Cohen's new album or something from Andrew Bird maybe? These guys have very different voices but, to my crazy hearing, their vocal presentations are so prominent, so incredibly textured that I sometimes have to do a double-take. These guys are great on both the he-400 and he-500, of course, but the he-400 seems to lend Leonard some extra depth and texture, while Bird benefits from the extra upper-mids on the 500. Regardless, they sound great on both headphones. Just wondering how different these artist sound to you when you compare them on your hifiman cans?
They aren't so comfortable, but they will make up for it in music production.
They certainly do! I'm not a big fan of the new velour pads, comfort-wise. I keep adjusting them because they often rotate, plus the feel of them is miles away from the former mellow velour pad (which were a PITY to mount, but, once mounted, stood still!).
The audio-bliss always makes up for this little "inconvenience" anyway, and the sound of the new velours is better than the old ones, cause they're deeper and less mellow.
If they could fix the aforementionned issue and bring back the soft feel of the old velours, that would be great ^^