ThurstonX
Headphoneus Supremus
Not gonna lie, I did forget about this. It was a promising mod that dead-ended.
No need to be shy. What was the mod and what was the intention?
Not gonna lie, I did forget about this. It was a promising mod that dead-ended.
Message received from HIFIMAN...
" Sorry for the troubles we brought to you! There is some HE-560 in stock. But we have made the new plan about the shipping for HE-560. Some American people say the earpads should be bigger due to their bigger ears. So we decide to make the bigger size earpads and ship the HE-560 with new earpads to USA or European pre-orders later. Since the factory need to make and make other improvements, we now do not have the exact shipping date. We believe it is worthy for us to wait for it! "
Bad for me... More time to wait for a new toy.
Anyone know some about this "new earpads and other improvements" ????
On a quick listen of "Paper Airplane", 24/96 flac recording, the song "Dimming of the Day", multiple times throughout the track when Allison sings the word "need you", or the word "need", she gets breathy/shouty/tizz, when she increases the volume of her voice inflection, during that word, I hear what I was trying to describe on the HE-560, but not on my other phones, DT880, etc! I would need to listen, and do some digging in some of my other tracks to pinpoint that same thing, but that is pretty much the distraction right there!
Watching my frequency analyzer in the track that I identified above, the breathy, shouty tizzy sound is under 10,000 hz, centered at 9,000 from what I can tell, cant understand why I don't notice it there with my DT880, and I didn't expect to on the PM-1 either. So it must just be the nature of the tuning with the HE-560, I just need to reduce the volume there to avoid the annoyance! I have too many tizzy tracks. I notice a lot of what you described with many tracks that have a chorus, notorious are the Tallis Schollars, other music where there are old chants, religious music, each headphone to various degrees. PM's with @analogsurviver, brought my attention to Tallis Schollars, which no headphone either one of us have heard can handle without similar distortion!
I haven't seen an impulse response graph for any IEM, or "small dynamic drivers" that surpass the impulse response of some orthos or electrostats. One downside with a smaller driver is they cannot produce as much low frequencies visceral-ness, as compared to larger drivers. Evidently, one can say the same about the largest headphone drivers, versus loudspeaker drivers.
And so the wait continues... Good things still worth waiting for I see! Literally.
I noticed the tizz at higher volume yesterday, too.
It's like a small ringing in the treble and happens only with few selected tracks.
I'm currently running with the DA8, which has a Sabre DAC that could well be the culprit.
I'll check with the SA-2 soon.
-> for the first time in almost a year, I feel like I'm connected to the music again! The sound, while still not as "in front of me" as I would like, is enveloping, like a surround effect. It's the first time I get that effect and I quite like it (anything that is not inside my head will do...).
The imaging and details, really, are excellent!
Fang (and your crew), you're the men!
Not gonna lie, I did forget about this. It was a promising mod that dead-ended.
No need to be shy. What was the mod and what was the intention?
The DA8 does 1w@32ohms which should do for the 560 imo, going by the specs & impressions.
Tried the Herus with 560 today, the sound is really good, even though the Herus only outputs 126mW @32ohm.