[fortunate son]

Worth trying as replacement for stock cable: FAAEAL Sundara cable under $20 on amazon. Best sounding cable I've found for 6SEV2 is: GUCraftsman all 6N copper version at around $170 on amazon.

My new dac has an OG TDA 1541 chip.

Beats the bricks off the ESS and AKM chip dacs I had been using.

 

[alcantaradiego]

New dac: SMSL ROHM chip D300 is giving me the best sound ever from my V6SE when run balanced with my HO200 amp.

I'm using the Khadas Tone 2 pro + Emotiva A100 mini x combo and getting great sound from my HE6se.

 

[bagwell359]

The HE-6 any generation thrives on current. Very much like Magnepan speakers. If you cannot power them to full dynamics, then you could have a sonic marvel - lets say a very nice First Watt by Nelson Pass - running the Maggie 3.7i on it, would be a waste.

The retired Violetric V281 does a nice job, so does either Ragnarok - and you can score a used Rag 1 for about $650 that runs them very nicely, conversly go to a 1.5 wpc @ 50 ohm superstar - you will not get the best out of them.

 

[theangelboy]

Got an email from Hifiman this morning. Some lucky SOB was able to score an OG HE-6 for $539. I'm super jealous. I checked the HE-4 and HE-5 and they were gone too, no surprise. I hope whoever got them will enjoy them. I guess I will just listen to my HE6se V2 and repeat the mantra, "I'm happy with what I have"

 

[Mediahound]

FWIW, Adorama currently has a few open box HE6Se's for $419.

 

[B Manoj Kumar]

How are the RE2000s anyone have auditioned them?

 

[kmmbd]

Finally got them 3D-printed honeycomb grilles for the HE-6se V2. Sonic bliss.

 

[leeperry]

Finally got them 3D-printed honeycomb grills

wood or go home

 

[LostnAmerica]

Finally got them 3D-printed honeycomb grilles for the HE-6se V2. Sonic bliss.

Are the honeycomb mods from ePay? If so, I saw those also. Black or Gold, hard to decide...Do they really enhance the sound in some way or just look super cool?
Thx!

 

[LostnAmerica]

Yay! I received mine this past Thursday (02/23) and I didn't have a readily available amp so I tried them with my Tandberg with the standard HP out. Right out of the box, the synergy, sound, everything I was hoping for was already there, incredible. I hope they remain and increase in their tonality after break in. I then received my monolith monoproce thxAAA 8877F Friday and been running them a bit. I will say at the moment the Tandbrerg receivers headphone out slightly edges out this new amp. Hopefully breaking in a bit will change things for the better. I have succeeded in uploading a photo.

 

[PeterCraig]

Tried quite a few headphone cables with the HE6se and found one I really love a few months ago.

The balanced Audio Sensibility SE OCC Copper. I got the slim 3.5mm connectors which fit perfect into the recessed headphone inputs:

https://audiosensibility.com/blog/p...o-Slim-Final-etc/p/166144338/category=8516930

I also use the Hifiman HE1000 V2 cable.

The Audio Sensibility cable is more smoky and warm but the detail and separation is all there.

 

[bagwell359]

Are the honeycomb mods from ePay? If so, I saw those also. Black or Gold, hard to decide...Do they really enhance the sound in some way or just look super cool?
Thx!

I find that the openness is enhanced, and the extra reverb that can be noted in wood blocks or finger snaps is gone. I tried a number of options. The two best - no screen and a 90% open mesh.

For some reason mated with my preferred pad, the sound stage gets wider together than either alone (DCA Angled Ether) - in head to head tests with 14 other pads on HE-6 6 screw, SE, and 500. None of the HFM pads makes the cut.

 

[LostnAmerica]

I find that the openness is enhanced, and the extra reverb that can be noted in wood blocks or finger snaps is gone. I tried a number of options. The two best - no screen and a 90% open mesh.

For some reason mated with my preferred pad, the sound stage gets wider together than either alone (DCA Angled Ether) - in head to head tests with 14 other pads on HE-6 6 screw, SE, and 500. None of the HFM pads makes the cut.

Thank you for the information, much appreciated.

 

[alcantaradiego]

I find that the openness is enhanced, and the extra reverb that can be noted in wood blocks or finger snaps is gone. I tried a number of options. The two best - no screen and a 90% open mesh.

For some reason mated with my preferred pad, the sound stage gets wider together than either alone (DCA Angled Ether) - in head to head tests with 14 other pads on HE-6 6 screw, SE, and 500. None of the HFM pads makes the cut.

you don't hear the drivers moving because of the vacuum generated by the DCA angle pads? I don't use them because I'm afraid the drivers are stuck to the magnets.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

Using solid leather pads always resulted in driver "crinkle" for me. Fenestrated is completely fine.
May be it's just how well pads seal on each individual.