Many people use headphones like sneharizer and beyerdynamic for 15 or 20 years. But how long do hifiman headphones last? Can you tell me your experiences?
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Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it! You often hear of their macro dynamics and difficulty to drive but not very often of their tuning or resolving ability.
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Yeah, I generally don't comment much on the stock tuning because of the earpads that I have installed on them, which are not representative of what you will get out of the box, and not everyone is willing to put up with the itchy fabric material of the Velpads to obtain the same sound either. If I ever find the stock earpads, I can give them a try again, but if memory serves, they're pretty much the equivalent Sundara pads, which were notably brighter/sharper sounding, to me, and that's what sparked my pad rolling interest, early on.
I'm sure what I am about to say is not a revelation for some, but through my own experiences, what I have learned a few times over is that the terms resolution, detail, separation, layering, etc. all relate back some how, some way to frequency response (aka. the aforementioned "tuning"). So long as the driver is capable, it becomes a matter of balancing the right blend of FR characteristics that allows "new details" to become revealed or "un-buried" from the mix. So with that said, the HE6se v2 is definitely very capable of resolving small details, without being overly distracting, unlike say, the Focal Utopia - where that headphone commands you to pay attention to the small details so much that it sometimes can ruin songs - at least, for me.