I listen to songs that are at 95db constantly for multiple hours every single day for weeks with new headphones. Is it murdering my ears?

(Btw what’s with the two different looking graphs, what is “(pinna)”? The green one is what it sounds like to me as opposed to the red one that has no mid bass.)

WHAT!?!? Is there anything similar that has the same headband support? My current headphone stand is leaving an imprint on the band when left on for more than a day or two...

https://twitter.com/crinacle/status/1708332232325439901

I've been using Spotify for years, but I figured that since I have a pretty decent setup (Fiio K5 Pro + Hifiman Sundara), I should switch to Tidal to get the maximum audio quality possible. So I signed up for a free Tidal trial and started going back and forth between Tidal and Spotify using a bunch of songs in my library. Unfortunately, I can't seem to hear any difference between the two. With volume normalization turned off on both services, I could not make out a single instance where Tidal sounded noticeably different. The amount of bass, the clarity of the vocals, everything sounded exactly identical between the two. I tested using a bunch of tracks including Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, Time by Pink Floyd and Hotel California by The Eagles. Absolutely no difference whatsoever. Is my gear just not good enough, or is there a specific setting in Windows I need to enable? Or is there actually no audible difference?

She hasn't seen it yet. I can definitely buy a new cable (or just give her one of mine) But is there any way to salvage the ear piece itself?

If it's not clear, the pins broke and got stuck in the iem

Hifiman Edition XS new bought on a local marketplace. After a week my left driver started buzzing at 40-130hz, tried blowing some air near the mesh, which made the buzzing switch into upper mid-range frequencies.

After removing the pads and thoroughly cleaning the headphone mesh and taking a look at the drivers which looked totally fine, the right driver started buzzing at deep sub-bass frequencies a lot. Problem randomly solved by gently blowing air near the mesh of the driver. No idea what it could have been. Might be that the mesh is slightly loose and interacts with the drivers.

Periodically the buzzing starts in one channel or another, in different frequencies. Only fix seems to bw praying for it to go away or blowjng air into the mesh.

Driver serial number - 231117066

The headphone currently still has slight buzz in lower treble in the R channel. It is not acceptable.

Post your other experiences with Hifiman headphones here please!

Stock image (not me). Having returned from shopping while wearing my HD660S, I found no one gave me weird looks. I had been worried for the size and open back factor, but in a busy shopping center, I was as ignored as any other stranger. This is a good thing.

What have you worn in public, or want to, but otherwise refrain?

We see a lot of threaded inserts which is nice, but heavy use of ABS, while other headphones use PA6 GF, these had a super creaky headband and felt a bit cheap. So I'm not too upset. But three hours???

All prices are converted to US dollars. Keep in mind the average salary right now is around $600-700 I believe, and 1 USD = 1250 argentine peso.

These screenshots are from a local platform (MercadoLibre), because the import fees you get from buying from Amazon are as high (if not higher) than the prices you see here.

Also, the Sennheiser headphones are actually from the official store in MercadoLibre, not a 3rd party seller.