HiFiMan HE400S Planar Magnetic Headphones

Description:

Key features

• Sounds terrific on your smartphone or most any portable audio device
• Superb Hi-Fi Quality with lifelike clarity, detail, extended bass and wide sound stage
• Only 350g-Long Hours of Comfortable Listening
• Innovative headband and specially designed ear pads for remarkable comfort
• Planar headphones

What is it?

One of the highest efficiency planar phones in the world! HIFIMAN’s newest
HE400S sounds terrific on your smartphone or most any portable audio device.
HE400S delivers all the lifelike clarity, detail, extended bass and wide sound
stage that audiophiles have come to expect from HIFIMAN. Innovative headband
and specially designed ear pads for remarkable comfort allowing you to enjoy
your music for hours on end. Lightweight: Only 350g!
HE400S delivers all the lifelike clarity, detail, extended bass and wide sound
stage that audiophiles have come to expect from HIFIMAN.

If you’re into planar-magnetic headphones but thought power requirements and
price limitations might put the damper on a purchase, think again. The smart
hi-fi men at HiFiMAN have figured out how to deliver the sonic benefits of
planar technology—noteworthy reproduction of finer details and spaciousness,
for instance—in a high-sensitivity (98dB), low-impedance (22 ohms) can that
isn’t power-hungry. In fact, the HE400S is so efficient it can be driven by
your smartphone with no external amp required—a rarity among planar
headphones.

How does it work?

Dynamic headphones utilize conductors that vibrate in limited areas of the
diaphragm. Result is that a large percentage of the diaphragm cannot be
directly driven by those conductors. Planar headphones have conductive layers
over almost all of the diaphragm. Evenly driven by these conductors, result is
significantly lower distortion than conventi