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Guess you didn't hear about the Asgard fiasco?
What's your basis for this statement, out of curiosity?
What Asgard fiasco? The relay thing? Or something earlier?
Regarding Fang & amps...looking at the HF-6 it's costs way more than it ought to and I've seen too many stories of unpredictable behavior and the loose ends that we kind of expect to see from HFM. I'm not saying it's a horrible product, but the same kinds of shortcuts that we can ignore on headphones are a lot scarier on active electronics
He'll probably do ok by the end, but he keeps moving too fast, that he really needs to focus on one or the other and get production squared away before trying to do it all at once. We all love Fang & HiFiMan, but we'd be fooling ourselves if we didn't point out they take production shortcuts they probably shouldn't...on an amp, that's kind of scary.
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I don't know about that, I've heard a couple of nightmare stories.
Maybe so, but the cable connectors are nothing short of moronic. My 5LEs use to unscrew themselves every two weeks. People are hardwiring them (which of course voids the warranty).
Hifiman really needs to improve those cable connections for $1,299 a pop. No need to reinvent the wheel, the mini XLRs Audez'e uses would be fine.
I'm pretty sure I'm
one of those nightmare stories, if you're referring to the fried drivers
But it still comes down to it, it worked out of the box, started misbehaving after a few days, it was a component failure....stuff can happen to any amp, it escaped INDIVIDUAL unit QC as well as my initial usage. It's hard to ask for more than that. I've had speaker amps do worse. Lyr's tend to raise more eyebrows since they're throwing wattages more like a small speaker amp when something goes wrong, and more prone to break things when they fail as a result. The whole relay situation was more of an RTFM situation. FWIW, if it were HE-6 I was driving with Lyr, the transducers would have survived the malfunction. So would HE-400 I suspect. There are vendors I'd MUCH less rather deal with than Schiit when something like that happens
I think the stories from a handful of incidents spread a lot faster than they should have and in some quadrants of the forums there's this "anti-Schiit" undercurrent, maybe because it's a popular product for the moment, that seems to like dragging the stories of a handful of bad units out for no reason. Other than if I missed something that sridhar3 was alluding to before the relay issue, I haven't really heard of very many failures at all other than a unit or two with a ground issue causing hum.
HE-400 had a rockier start....
Agreed on the cable connections. They're not horrible, really, but they're not as good as they should be. That said, I did have a cable that unscrewed itself once after installing a new cable, but out of 3 pairs of hifiman headphones I don't really have any issues with the cable. I
do have issues with the cables poking my shoulders, though. I pity those who must solder them though.
I'd still rather have the SMC connectors than hardwire though. Cables can and do fail, and I like being able to replace them without hassle. Besides, the HD650 pins...those things wiggle out on me all the time
