HIFIMAN - HE400SE Stealth Magnets Version

HE midSE Objectively claustrophobic, subjectively the most boring headphones in the price bracket

As someone who has owned the HE400SE before, the timbre is pretty strange and they're quite uncomfortable, not to mention the build quality. 560S, DT880 if EQ, AD900X, X2HR are all better options (I have owned all of these at some point).

Just got my hifiman he400se headphones this week. Audio gear made for people who actually care about audio quality is such a gigantic upgrade it's crazy.

400se, especially if you're playing them in a way you can add a little EQ.

Not really; it’s a challenging tier to find anything that stands out. The 400se is as good as anything I’ve heard in that tier, but everything at that price point has trade offs.

400se for classical, jazz and metal, 7506 for everything else

It's hard to beat the HE400SE when i got it on sale for a whopping 45 bucks!

For closed backs i like the 7506 a lot, swap the pads and it gets even more interesting, and the open hifiman he400se has some bass and treble quirks but it's pretty cool, ethereal sound, sundara-esque

you can get the HifiMan HE400SE for like 100 dollars and you're gonna get your money's worth with that kind of sound. I guess the only problem with that is that it needs more juice cuz it's a planar. Get a 40 dollar amp like the FiiO KA11. Gaming headphones are just not that great in general and if you want to find good sound for cheap go with iems. There are plenty to choose from and they're pretty easy to replace compared to a full size headphones and have better longevity because of it. Just get a 2 pin iem and you're all sorted.

The HiFiMan he400se, with the Oratorry1990 equalization profile, is probably the best headphones I've ever listened to in my life. Even headphones costing €1,000 don't do any better. The fact that they are open-back planar headphones gives them a dynamic range, spatialization, and soundstage that no closed-back headphones can match. I've converted several friends to planar headphones thanks to these, including a sound engineer.

My preferred headphone is the Hifiman HE400SE, although being an open back planar type isn't ideal for travel and provides absolutely no sound isolation whatsoever. For travel, I use either wired IEM's (Truthear Zero:Reds are great for metal) or TWS buds in that form of the Moondrop Space Travel, if I want some noise cancelling.

I love seeing roundups of lower end affordable stuff. The more the better. I'm a huge HE400se fan, mental what you get sound wise for the price.