TheHeadPhoneGuy
100+ Head-Fier
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I have been into lightweight headphones lately so I bought the S400. First thing first,I don't buy into what the packaging says. Crisp HD sound and carbon nanotubnes mean nothing until I hear what it sounds like. It sounded like I expected with rolled off treble and OK mids. Bass was far looser than I expected. To the point where I felt there was vibration and thus distortion. My source is a Fiio X1 and its sound signature is a little lean with bass. I was about to pack the S400 back up and return it when I decided to mod it by stabilizing the drivers by surrounding them with modeling clay. That did the trick.
That's exactly how I felt when I listened to them. I still cant understand how I read that someone preferred the s400's over the s500's like they are in two different categories of goodness, and the s400's IMO aren't good.