These headphones sound great and are very affordable, but just know what you are getting. If you're looking for some great sounding headphones to listen to around your house using a headphone amp, these would be a great buy. But if you're looking for something to take to the gym, or use at work you'll probably want to look elsewhere. Pros - Excellent sound quality

 I tried listening on my Sony STRDN1080 receiver and I had to crank the volume way up to get them to a decent volume. Open back means they leak a lot of sound, so you probably won't be wearing these out and about. They come with a rather short cord. I'm sure you can buy an extension, but the one that's included is pretty short

 Really nice and balanced sound. Comfortable. The headphones themselves are rather large, but they are still pretty comfortable. Affordable for audiophile headphones

Nice sound, but not for the casual listener

 All-day comfortable with ease (they can get a tiny bit warm with the alcantara pads in a hot room, but not even close to unacceptable) and utterly zero squeaks or creaks (looking at you, Audio Technica AD700's)  The one, ONLY gripe I have with them is the nice cable they have is too short for anything other than a desktop amp or device RIGHT in front of you. BUT, it's replaceable, and lots of companies make cables for them. Side benefit is you can get a balanced cable for them, and if you get a BTR5 as well, that amp has a balanced output option. So they can sound EVEN BETTER

 My wife disagrees, but I think movies sound punchier and more intimate on grado cans. And they have the side benefit of letting two people listen to something and just talk like nothing since they leak like mad. But again, all round? These babies, hands down.

 My Samsung phone + a cheap dongle, no problem. I HIGHLY recommend buying a Fiio BTR5 as well if you don't have any audiophile gear, as it'll turn these into wireless bluetooth headphones, let you run a balanced cable, has a microphone, a DAC with EQ, and works as a wired desktop amp. Little bit of a spend, but cannot recommend enough.  The soundstage isn't the BIGGEST I've heard, but it's still enormous

5mm and 1/4 inch tips) and nice and heavy duty. So this is just a minor gripe, and one solved with a new cable. Seeing as these things have heirloom-quality build, it's an investment worth making, and does serve to keep the price down with something you can buy in the future.  Simply put, these things sound great

 Seeing as these things have heirloom-quality build, it's an investment worth making, and does serve to keep the price down with something you can buy in the future.  Simply put, these things sound great. EVERYTHING sounds great through them. They don't have the sparkly, intimate punch of grado's, but as an all-rounder, I can't think of a better pair of headphones anywhere NEAR this price

Um, yeah. These are just the business and an eyewatering value.

 It's not long enough for comfortable PC/ living room AV receiver use for me, so I ordered a replacement cable when I bought the headphone. The replacement cable is that red one that everybody else is buying. I clipped the "braided" part off, and now they're really cool looking red cables. They click really nicely into the headphones - better click than the stock cable

 Customer service is not amazing. Warranty is nothing special.  Oh, and the stock cable is a cable. It's not great

 Where my AKG K240S's were unable to give me bass where I knew there should be some, the HiFiMan HE-4XX gave me back my missing bass, without "muddying" the trebles, but, at the same time, the treble doesn't have that "sparkle" (another term I now actually understand after reading all those audiophile forums) that my AKG had. Very well could be because I tore all the foam and mesh out of my AKG to make them more open and airy. I hesitate to make any modifications to the HE-4XX, but I've seen some mods floating around regarding taking out the filters, etc. We'll see - I don't really like the idea of hairs/dust getting into these drivers

 I'm willing to do that. They sound good enough that I don't want to not have them, and I really don't want to pay for shipping on..

Great Sound - But, As You've Heard, QC/Build/Customer Service Needs Work

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 From the background instruments, it was able to do that separation as well as instrumental separation. Within the background very, very well um, this isn't really a headphone that does forward imaging very well. It does tend to stay in between, like the left and right side, desperately move to the front or to the back me very easily. That being said, there are very few headphones that can really do that so onto the conclusion of this [ Applause ]

 Okay. Now, let's talk about the mid-range so for mid-range. This is actually a really excellent headphone outside of vocals and I'll. Explain what I mean by that in a second

 So if you have a small head, this may not actually fit you, although, if you're medium to large, this should fit. You just fine. Very very comfortable, in my opinion, the headband does a good job of spreading the weight across the entire top of your head, not just on one or two particular places, and I think that's a huge benefit. The ear pads are slightly angled, so there is kind of a forward and a back orientation for the ear pads, they're fake leather on the outside and what feels like, microfiber on the inside part that touches around your ear

 These sound amazing they're, warm. They have great sound Sage, they have very, very rich vocals and they have a great surrounding delivery and I'll kind of explain what I mean by that now I will say that highs are definitely not the focus of the sound here. They'Re not extensively detailed or resolving, but they still have a bit of authority behind them. They'Re, never bright, they're, never sibling, but it just doesn't really seem like that was the focus of the sound

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 The listed website for the sparks says 1.3 watts at 32 ohms, but the independent measurements that i've read say about 2.4, so the is definitely a little bit more powerful. We'Ll talk more about that stuff in the actual comparison video now the sound portion which normally makes up the biggest part of the review is actually the thing I have the least to say about

 I'Ve had a couple lamp fighters in here that are perhaps a little bit faster and speed, but at a much higher price. So for a hundred bucks, this is just about as good as you can get in terms of cleanliness in sound quality. Now a couple things that I found just in general day to day use of this thing. If you go past three o'clock on high-gain, you do hear a little bit of hissing, which was a little bit surprising, given how clean this and fire is not that big of a deal

 How is it built well, overall, a little bit disappointing? Actually, compared to you some of the other offerings at $ 100, specifically for magnet 3 and the liquid spark, the build does fall a little bit short, it's plastic. The feet do slide around a little bit, which was a little bit disappointing to see. I understand that they have to. You, know, obviously keep it at a better price, but I would have liked to see a more competitive build here now other than that and the giant power brick that it comes with

 Thank you guys very much specifically Israel for lending this to me to review and if you want to become a patron, there's a link in the description down below and you get early access to all of my reviews and then last thing before we jump into the Actual review is, I will have a direct comparison between this and the amount of price liquid spark. That'S coming soon so subscribe if you're not already, so, let's go ahead and jump into the build of this device. How is it built well, overall, a little bit disappointing? Actually, compared to you some of the other offerings at $ 100, specifically for magnet 3 and the liquid spark, the build does fall a little bit short, it's plastic. The feet do slide around a little bit, which was a little bit disappointing to see

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