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HIFIMAN HE1000 V2 Over Ear Planar Magnetic Headphone

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The slanting ear pads are denser with a grander asymmetrical angle to produce better bass and an enriched soundstage.

Hifiman was the first brand to release a high-end portable audio player, the HM-801, which was like a catalyst for Reference Audio Players that we know today. So, if treble is too boosted, it can pick up lotta noise artefact we don't want to hear in whole note release process, when their not enough, it can make the rendering blurry and abstract, or affect natural resonance clarity and sound info.

I really do enjoy the overall sound and it has made me want to check out a lot more of my collection trying these Headphones instead of listening via Speakers. And headphones with crazy accurate imaging is for monitoring purpose, not to enjoy music and here we have best of both world. With HE1K your in middle of music scene, sometime very near instrument or vocal while for Arya you not far from stage, like in second row with clean vision.

Whether this is an inevitable consequence of the stealth magnet is somthing I am not 100% sure about, and I will leave that to discussions from people that have thrown their hats into the ring and are willing to fight it out in engineering terms. I'm not certain to understand why the SMSL SH9 lack so much dynamic heft, yet, ill say: avoid pairing those with a THX AAA amplifier, these aren't suppose to sound clinical at all. This was my first impressions, and from there: it just scale up infinately and i'm far from being done discovering new tone subtilities and spatial cue with them. Majority of impressions of Special Edition vs Stealth Edition favor the former in terms of technicalities too.The V3 model benefits from an improved headband design which is lightweight yet firm accommodating a broad range of head sizes and shapes.

I've been quite wordy about the low range yet for me the star of the show is the luscious mid range of these. The boldness of the low end response is, of course, the 1st thing that anyone coming from an original HE1K will notice. Treble:​Here we find the HE-1000 Stealth to turn things up again, closing the door to any „hope“ of not being such a departure of the V2’s vision. Tone fullness is favor before definition sharpness and texture is buttery, velvety, free of distracting micro details or grain that can affect musicality of a bass line or density of kick drum.I believe it but as I have a HE1000 Stealth Edition incoming (just a loaner, no, I'm not Netflixing these) I will check this out for myself to see how the latest model fares against mine. With harman tuned headphones or IEM, i often feel the piano is distant, lack roundness and note weight and is too boosted in texture grain which make it sound uneven as if the piano strings were rusted. The bass is well controlled and extended but never seems over played, those with a more "electronic" preference in their musical taste may miss the apparent prominence given to this area by other phones but make no mistake it is definitely there. So far i’m 110 hours of burn in into these headphones out of the recommended 180 - 200 hours on the hifiman site. There were a few murmurs about this which led to the V2 - a version which added thicker earpads made with better materials and a thinner earcup design, which attempts to marry the same sound stage with a less claustraphobic feel.

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