Hifiman Susvara Unveiled Planar Magnetic Headphones - Official Discussion Thread

After all these years, I honestly don’t understand why HiFiman hasn’t managed to get their treble properly under control.

There isn’t a single pair of headphones from this company that I haven’t experienced mutating from WOW to aaahhhh, in my opinion……. sometimes in one song.

For example:

It starts wonderfully but at the one minute mark the song get‘s busy in the higher registers (the background choir starts), and all of a sudden you have to lower the volume level, otherwise it hurts.

Not even a Grado goes that far in painlevel, than some of the HiFiman (Arya, HE1000….) that says something :rofl:

That’s probably the price you pay for creating this airy, open and detailed sound.

Although ZMF and Meze, for example, manage to do this quite well without piercing your eardrums.
:man_shrugging:

WHY….

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Its possible the target market for hifiman may not be NAm or Europe - whole lot of people in Asia who listen to music too who may have different tonality expectations.

Tube manufacturers have been known to tune their tubes for different market expectation so hifiman may be serving its core audience and it may simply not be the US or Europe.

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just my observation… The brightness is easily managed by simple methods…a different cable, a tube amp with choice of tubes, a little EQ for your liking… I think Hifiman knows this and they let them be a little hot and let the user adjust for how they want them to sound… thats a good thing to have options like that… I look at the brightness as a good thing… versus having them present as dark… its not like they are a constant sibilance, just a little hot in the top end…