SchwizzelKick66
100+ Head-Fier
It's crazy to me. I've never experienced such a dichotomy in sound and build. For headphones that sound so incredible, Hifiman build is just so sub par.Hifiman's build quality is nothing to write home about, I think they have to improve in that area if they want to survive in the future.
I could give them a pass for their early models having sub par build and bad headband designs, but they continue to propagate the same mistakes into all of their subsequent models. Their two headband designs border on laughable to me- the Sundara/Ananda headband is so rickety and don't seem to match with the rest of the headphone build. The XS/400se headband style is basic if not bordering on cheap, with little to no concern given to comfort or fit. And the egg earcups from Ananda/XS/etc are so big and they seemingly did not give a crap about fit when they designed them.
If hifiman could marry their sound quality with better build quality and design, they would really have something going. As it stands unless I see a significant change in their build and design, I don't think I can buy another hifiman unfortunately...