K612 fan ! Nice to meet you ! :-D

His Truthear Zero collab was explicitly meant to be tuned to Harman, rather than IEF neutral.

A continued opinion.

And the part under that?

You said "it's totally fine". That's an opinion.

This is some incredible information here. Thank you for this. Definitely going to be doing some reading later today.

Akg k612 pro maybe?

Downvoted because I didn't really give an opinion, so saying "in your opinion" doesn't make sense. I'm just telling you what he's done so far

I never ended up checking the onboard audio settings when I was doing the back and forth. I did look at them when I was using the Q4 and spacial sound and all enhancements were off. And the sample rate was I think 24bit 48000hz. I could be mistaken on those numbers though. I'll have to took into that today after work. Seeing a few of you saying I should notice any difference has me thinking I had something wrong in the first place with the factory windows settings. Granted I never changed them. Or even looked at them for that matter. But definitely curious on if it's something I can show my friends to help them get better audio with their current headsets too. But that brings up another question, would this kind of thing make a difference for a usb headset?

> I have no interest in chi-fi

Says the R7DX/Sundara enjoyer

Somehow more comfortable than wearing nothing

The issue with the Truthear Hexa is it's exclusive to Shenzhen Audio, so there isn't any dealer price.

So anyone reselling it in Indonesia has to buy it from Shenzhen Audio at $80, add any import duties and VAT likely bringing it to around $90 cost and then $10 profit.

Other stuff, that is actually sold by multiple places, they can buy it at a MUCH lower dealer price (could easily be well under half the Western MSRP, as some stuff even sells to end users for under half Western MSRP) and that gives them more room to sell cheaper.

Here in Thailand, Chi-Fi is typically actually cheaper than Western countries, because it's sold cheaper to a developing market. But the Hexa isn't, because it's not distributed like this, it's Shenzhen Audio only.

You should still be able to buy directly from Shenzhen Audio yourself (either their own store or on AliExpress) for the same $80 price as everyone else. I got it from Ali on release for $65 with discounts.

For that matter this local seller on Shopee has it for 1.28m, which is $85, with discount coupons that could even possibly be below $80:

https://shopee.co.id/product/159299554/17991886433

That's a 30 day pre-order because what that seller is going to do when you order it, is go order it from Shenzhen Audio himself.

They look like my old audio technicas, can't remember the model number though

Yeah, Harman didn't make the Harman Target without reason, so it'd make sense that Sennheiser and probably Hifiman got pretty similar results.

It doesn't really make sense time wise that one of them copied the other, probably lots of time researching and testing for both manufacturers.

BTW thank you to have taken the time to explain me that what I said was looking like manipulation. I take note

The Zune HD was such a beautiful, well built device. Still take mine out and give it a listen once in a while.

Terrific headphones for the price , you don't need anything else

The HE1 is very (!) close to the Harman Target (not by coincidence but also not because they wanted to, Sennheiser‘s internal research simply yielded very similar results to Harman‘s).

So I wouldn‘t say the Susvara tried to copy the HE1‘s sound, it just was designed with a similar target in mind (transparent, uncolored sound)

Veiled means an abundance of top end usually 🦻

The one good thing about Windows PCs, you will be blown away by any external DAC 😁

Cloud Alphas are fairly well known for punching above their weight for audio quality in a gaming headset. The Beyers you have coming will probably be even better though, look forward to it!

I never stated that the cans were bad, i'm even planning on buying them again once they go on sale. I dare not speak ill of the dead

True that lol.

To me, yeah. That was the vibe I got when I first tried them. Never had them side by side though.

Ehh, susvara's tone is close enough to say that it tried to follow the HE-1.

I don't think I've tried a headphone with similar timbre to the HE-1, but it literally might be me forgetting things lol.