[HeadphoneAddict]

Yeah, thinker clearly said he's using the original cable from the LE.
 

 

[Jon L]

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Thinker, it is interesting that you like the HE-5 cable on the HE-5LE. The HE-5 is a silver cable (brighter) and the HE-5LE is OFC copper 

HE-5 cable was pure silver, not silver-plated copper??
 

 

[Shahrose]

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HE-5 cable was pure silver, not silver-plated copper??
 

HE-5 cable was SPC.

 

[thinker]

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[AudioCats]

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HE-5 cable was SPC.

can that be where the alleged sibilance was from? Then the cable material was changed in different batchs.....

 

[karan]

Love these babies

 

[HiFlight]

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I'm going to get a cable to try the HE-5LE from the speaker outputs of my Leben CS300X, to see if that offers better sound than from the headphone out.  I think the headphone out does a great job, I know some folks liked the original HE-5 with speaker amps best.
 
Listening right now to the HE-5LE, to Patty Griffin's "No Bad News" - and both her voice and the acoustic guitars are exceptionally natural sounding.

I have been driving my LE's directly from the speaker terminals of my Signature 30.2 and Virtue One.  This is now my method of choice. 
I built an adapter with banana plugs on the speaker terminal end and a female 4-pin XLR connector on the headphone end.  Very similar to my K1000 setup.  In fact, I use my K1000 pigtail on the 30.2 and my DIY pigtail on the  Virtue.  It make for a very easy swap between my K1000's and 5LE regardless of which amp I decide to use.
 
Try it..You'll like it!!
 
Ron
 

 

 

[Skylab]

Cool - I plan to!  Thanks.

 

[Yikes]

I'm at about 55 hours of break-in. I'm not really seriously listening yet. A couple of quick observations: The fit and finish is exceptional. They have a Solid feel that few headphones can approach. They are very comfortable. They do clamp more than my other headphones do (Jades, AH-D7000, AKG K-701) but not obtrusively so. The extra clamping just means that I can do a little head banging without them falling off (Not true with my other headphones).
 
As far as amping goes, They require 60 - 70 for a healthy level from my Phoenix (The Denon 7000's require no more than 35 to reach an equivalent level).
 
I'll offer some subjective opinions next week some time.

 

[Shahrose]

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can that be where the alleged sibilance was from? Then the cable material was changed in different batchs.....

I did notice the occasionally hot treble, but I'm really not sure if it was because of the cable.

 

[tim3320070]

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I'm at about 55 hours of break-in. I'm not really seriously listening yet. A couple of quick observations: The fit and finish is exceptional. They have a Solid feel that few headphones can approach. They are very comfortable. They do clamp more than my other headphones do (Jades, AH-D7000, AKG K-701) but not obtrusively so. The extra clamping just means that I can do a little head banging without them falling off (Not true with my other headphones).
 
As far as amping goes, They require 60 - 70 for a healthy level from my Phoenix (The Denon 7000's require no more than 35 to reach an equivalent level).
 
I'll offer some subjective opinions next week some time.

Holy moly that's a lot, my HD650's are uncomfortably loud at 25-30 (99 step).
 

 

[dukja]

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As far as amping goes, They require 60 - 70 for a healthy level from my Phoenix (The Denon 7000's require no more than 35 to reach an equivalent level).

It seems that you are using 99 steps mode and probably with SE input so that you need that much on the volume setting.

I usually set the volume on my Phoenix to about 10~16 out of 70 steps for my DT880/600 with balanced input from Ref-1.  And the volume setting was about exactly the same for HE5-LE .

 

[thinker]

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[thinker]

 

[perrew]

Can you drive them with either speaker or 1/4" plug from the Moth? My guess would be that a speaker terminated cable would deliver better results due partly to better connectors.