HiFiMan - HE-500 Headphones
HiFiMan HE-500 Headphones Near-Perfect Resolution, Dynamics, and Sensitivity Far Outperforms Most Other Models in This (or Any) Price Range HiFiMan's HE-500 delivers silky smooth treble, wicked-fast transients, deep propulsive bass, and a midrange so sweet it'll bring tears to your eyes. HiFi Man's HE Series headphones use a featherweight diaphragm driven by a massive magnet structure that makes ordinary headphones sound slow and bloated. The HE-500 is efficient and easy to drive, and can be used with virtually any headphone amp. "HiFiMAN's HE-500 is a world-class headphone that provides almost all of the benefits high-end headphone listeners focused on accuracy could want. This is particularly true for listeners looking for a headphone that delivers much of what you would hear on an audiophile-grade stereo system." - Tom Martin, Playback The HE-500 is one of HiFiMan's best performing planar magnetic designs, yet its 89dB sensitivity is higher than similar models and allows it to be driven with a conventional headphone amplifier. The HE-500 offers impressive frequency response from 15Hz to 50KHz and with all of the dynamics and lifelike realism that HiFiMan headphones are famous for. "The HiFiMAN HE-500 is a well-engineered and well-built headphone design. Their overall neutral tonal balance, satisfying but measured bass, and big sound make them well suited to a wide variety of musical styles. They can show off many of the virtues of good recordings, but don't render less-than-stellar recordings unlistenable...I think that the balanced approach of the HE-500s will help them find their way into many systems." - S. Andrea Sundaram, SoundStage! "HiFiMAN's HE-500 is one of the greatest headphones on today's market -- and a good value to boot...The HE-500 separates instruments clearly without the 'hyper resolution' that can become aggressive and distracting." - The Absolute Sound, 2012 Editors' Choice Awards