[Fegefeuer]

yeah, "dead list". Comes in here, tries to lecture people, doesn't have a single clue about anything at all. 650, 600, LCD-2 etc. are all dead and irrelevant by now.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Guys do you know if there are bumpless K701s nowadays?

I really kinda really sorta want one again.

 

[Fegefeuer]

They changed to bumpless many years ago

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Man, the Amazon pics still having bumps scare me, lol.

Maybe if I get a new headphone, it's probably gonna be that.

 

[Fegefeuer]

Amazon.de has still pictured both variants, at least the front picture shows what you get

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

I think it'd be kinda cool if I had the original mid-fi 3. 6XX, K701, DT880 lol

 

[Fegefeuer]

I'd have 6XX and HE-4. I really want the HE-4 back after the plastic front grill killed the driver.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

what, what happened?

 

[Fegefeuer]

the front mesh must have loosened over time, behind it is an array of plastic. One piece of it broke and pierced the driver.

The HE-4 is such a great headphone with power. Sure, the depth is lacking but other than that really well sounding headphone. Very fast, airy, jumpy, lightfooted and playful.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

the front mesh must have loosened over time, behind it is an array of plastic. One piece of it broke and pierced the driver.

The HE-4 is such a great headphone with power. Sure, the depth is lacking but other than that really well sounding headphone. Very fast, airy, jumpy, lightfooted and playful.

Definitely one of my faves too. Sorry to hear that. You getting it fixed?

 

[Fegefeuer]

Impossible. Need new drivers or just another HE-4.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Yeah, what a shame. I figured maybe you scored a spare driver or something.

It's crazy how underrated it was on release. No one freaking bought it. Everyone went for the 500.

 

[Fegefeuer]

yep, it was all 500 and HE-6, then HE-400 etc.

HE-4 was the one gem people avoided because of higher numbers. Also it was hard to drive. 86db were no joke back then, still aren't.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Yeah. I'm glad my desire to try unusual things brought me to the HE-4. Essentially the pioneer of single sided magnet planar designs. Nowadays, single sided magnet arrays are everywhere.

 

[SierraMadre]

Hey there!

The firmware updates were already released end of April. For me, it has cleared the mids and lows distortions. I have not noticed anymore distortions yet. Before the update, I could use 32bit/192kHz for all audio modes. After the update, 32bit/192kHz quality was usable in only stereo modes. Surround modes tend to have some 'sizzling' distortions. 24bit/192kHz seems to be the highest possible setting for surround.

Excellent news! Thanks for the update! Guess I better update it then.