I noted that the Marketing Slogan says...."out performs, any other headphone in its class".
Clever, as this is not saying its sounds better.
Interpretation :
Well, I caved and bought the thing just now I actually like the unique look of the headphones, even though the black plastic dongle hanging off the aluminum-looking finish of the cups looks very wrong... but I couldn't resist at the price!
What!! What is this!?? A HiFIMAN that doesn’t look like it was built from parts pulled from a scrap heap? If it still sounds like a HiFIMAN, then I will be very interested.
Well, I caved and bought the thing just now I actually like the unique look of the headphones, even though the black plastic dongle hanging off the aluminum-looking finish of the cups looks very wrong... but I couldn't resist at the price!
Will do -- it was definitely an impulse buy. I no longer have an HE-4XX to compare it to, but I still have a couple of HE-560's (one v3 and one v1 with the SMC connectors) and an HE-5SE as well. From what little there is to read about it on the interwebz, it seems it has something of a mid-bass hump and roll-off in the sub bass. That might sound pleasing "enough" to my ears, but time will tell!
Will do -- it was definitely an impulse buy. I no longer have an HE-4XX to compare it to, but I still have a couple of HE-560's (one v3 and one v1 with the SMC connectors) and an HE-5SE as well. From what little there is to read about it on the interwebz, it seems it has something of a mid-bass hump and roll-off in the sub bass. That might sound pleasing "enough" to my ears, but time will tell!
I assume you‘re referring to this response graph. That is a pretty vicious looking sub bass roll off, but it’s hard to tell exactly where it starts rolling off because that graph doesn’t have any kind of scale. The rest looks ok though, so we’ll see.
I assume you‘re referring to this response graph. That is a pretty vicious looking sub bass roll off, but it’s hard to tell exactly where it starts rolling off because that graph doesn’t have any kind of scale. The rest looks ok though, so we’ll see.
It looks very much like an uncompensated graph, so don't take any of it to heart at this point.
We can judge it once we found out where the scale begins, 0Hz or 20Hz... but my money is on 20Hz.
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I actually like the unique look of the headphones, even though the black plastic dongle hanging off the aluminum-looking finish of the cups looks very wrong... but I couldn't resist at the price!
