HIFIMAN HE400i Over Ear Full-Size Plannar Magnetic Headphone - Sold by HIFIMAN UK - £180 @ Amazon UK

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HIFIMAN HE400i Over Ear Full-Size Plannar Magnetic Headphone £180 - Sold by HIFIMAN UK and Fulfilled by Amazon.

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P&P options Amazon UK13 Sep 17

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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rev6

12 Sep 17

Cheaper than the lower model the 400s. They're usually £300+ so appears to be a good deal!
They'll be the revision with 2.5mm jack's.

All comments (27)

LotusJas

12 Sep 17 #1

Great deal.

scattman84

13 Sep 17 #2

I should have resisted but I couldn't. Cheers for the post, great price.

Jono1984

13 Sep 17 #3

Must resist......

OllieSt

13 Sep 17 #4

Make sure you're aware of the narrow stoundstage on these. I'm ok with that, but it's a definite noticeable trait of these. They most certainly need to be burnt in (150 hours quoted by manufacturer). Sennheiser outlet has HD600 for £206.99 and HD650 for £249.99

excellent price for these.

Lukester

13 Sep 17 #5

MUST RESIST. :laughing:

Great price for these, heat added dude.

johnthehuman

13 Sep 17 #6

2.5mm is quite an obscure jack size, are you sure it's not 3.5mm?

rev6 to johnthehuman

13 Sep 17 #14

The first revision had screw on type connectors into the headphones. They later changed them to 2.5mm
I don't mean 2.5mm to devices, that's 3.5mm

yoshi

13 Sep 17 #7

ordered, that's a fantastic price for this set of headphones.
the jack is 3.5mm must be a mis-print

Gaspode to yoshi

13 Sep 17 #8

Think the 2.5mm refers to the jack for the cable where it enters the headphone unit - they used to use screw-in cable connectors, but the latest revision has changed these to plug-in type....

MisterTIBS

13 Sep 17 #9

Serious question - what is the main difference between a pair of headphones like these and your standard £20 types? Is it the sound is clearer, or... ?

The_Hoff to MisterTIBS

13 Sep 17 #10

Being polite, you don't need them.

These are for those with high-end amps and lossless source music. It's an expensive pursuit that you'd be as well to avoid lol.

Thanks OP, sold my Sine a few months back, bought :blush:

sergiup to MisterTIBS

13 Sep 17 #12

A lot of it is highly subjective, and it depends on people's ears and brains as everyone's ears function somewhat differently, same for their brains; some people have damaged hearing too. Some people genuinely cannot hear a difference - either because they actually can't or because they really don't care. Others just like huge amounts of "phat bass" and not much else.
The better headphones do usually give you more (provided the music file you're playing and the equipment it's being played on is decent):
- you should hear more details in the music (some sounds often get lost / overpowered by others on cheap headphones / earphones / speakers)
- things should be clearer / sounds should be better separated (eg: you might hear the difference between different drums/cymbals better)
- sound stage should be better (by this I mean you should get a better impression of space in terms of where instruments, singers etc are, reverb etc caused by the recording space)
- general build quality should be better
- lots of other often subjective things...

This doesn't really apply to Beats headphones :raised_hand:

If you're curious enough to try something better than a £20 set, you could try an AKG Y50 for around £50-£60; they're a bit more mainstream-oriented (bit of a bass bump), but decent quality and should work fine just with reasonable phone/etc outputs.

Is a £180 headphone 9 times better than a £20 headphone? Highly unlikely, but such is the general law of diminishing returns. I've got some pretty decent £20-£25 in-ears, and I wouldn't say that the ~£200 (rrp) UE Triple.Fi I have are immensely better - they definitely are better to my ears, but the cheap ones are about 50-70% of the way there already. However, there's cheap rubbish cheap, and the rare unicorn bargain of cheap yet still decent!

Kozor to sergiup

13 Sep 17 #16

Sorry to piggyback a question but would you be able to recommend a good set of cheap wireless headphones? I've been hovering around these threads the last couple of weeks but haven't found any and it looks like there are a number of knowledgeable people in this thread.

Last pair I owned was probably about 20 years ago so it's fair to say it's not my area of expertise. I'm looking a pair for 2 specific uses:
1. Wear in the gym.
2. Wear to listen to lectures at home.

So my only criteria are that they don't slip around my head and they look half-decent.

Master_Yoda to Kozor

13 Sep 17 #17

I recently purchased some Sony MDR-XB950B1s and I was impressed with the sound. They also look fine when you're wearing them unlike a lot of headphones. I don't use the bass boost feature on them as it's overpowering, but they sound great without it on. Also - the Audio Technica M40X's suggested above are wired not wireless...(?)

rev6 to Master_Yoda

13 Sep 17 #18

I completely missed the "wireless" part. You're right. I'm not too familiar with wireless headphones.

The_Hoff to Kozor

13 Sep 17 #19

You'll not find a pair that will easily fit the use case of both, least not well. For gym/running work and so on you don't really want noise cancelling as it's a little dangerous and you'll get wind noise/impact thud. For mobile/work/home you should absolutely look to get noise cancelling.

For what it's worth I personally use:

Gym/Running/Cycling: amazon.co.uk/Blu…gym

Train/Work/Mobile/Home: amazon.co.uk/Sen…4.5

Specific listening sessions or audio work I used to use my Audeze Sine, but sold them last month.

sergiup to Kozor

13 Sep 17 #20

The SoundPEATS QY7 are pretty good for the price (so are many of the others though to be honest), and they'd be fine when exercising; they come in black too, so will look fine. This is provided you're OK with earphones as opposed to headphones - it's not easy to find headphones that don't fall off when you're exercising, it's much easier with earphones...

I wouldn't spend much on 'phones for these purposes, I'd be far too likely to lose/damage them and then regret spending more than £20-£30!

MisterTIBS to sergiup

13 Sep 17 #22

Thanks very much, appreciate that informative and what seems a fair and unbiased response. I hear an obvious difference with some headphones to other cheaper ones but never took opportunity to try to hear difference between what I consider to be a fine pair and those priced beyond anything I'd be looking at in terms of prices, but curious if there were less obvious reasons why they may be as improved vs my price range compared to my price range vs what I consider to be crap ones!

jayjay266 to sergiup

13 Sep 17 #23

Wise words, Baxter

parkertron

13 Sep 17 #11

Must resist. Bought. Too much of a bargain. Thanks OP

wordsworth

13 Sep 17 #13

Fantastic price, but I find using amps to much of a pain in the bum these days as is using open headphones. I don't even use my senn 650 or 598 (both open headphones) but use cheap Xiaomi earphones or some closed AKG's that work good straight out of a phone/laptop. Saying that I can hear the difference if I do you the senns especially with an amp, just to lazy these days :grin:

The_Hoff

13 Sep 17 #15

They're certainly for home listening as they're open backed, plus you'll look like a tool wearing them with the square headband.

But, if you do want to use them on mobile, grab a CA Dac Magic XS or Audioquest Dragonfly Red and an OTG USB cable.

anoned

13 Sep 17 #21

Nice op, I'd be all over these if I didn't already have hd650s

smr1

14 Sep 17 #24

I was considering these at a higher price but just went with the sines instead. Isn't that always the way.

Kozor

14 Sep 17 #25

Thanks for the help fellas. I went for the newer pair of the mpow earphones.

smr1

14 Sep 17 #26

Couldn't resist so now I have these and the Audeze sines. Fostex next then electrostatics. :smile: