HEDD Audio HEDDphone D1

[bigtor1927]

You can simulate the effect these headphones produce by installing the VST plugin in the APO Equalizer.The effect will of course be approximate, but some conclusions can be drawn. This requires a plugin class called "transient shaper." For example, MTransientMB from the MFreeFXBundle plugin package. But you can use any other plugin you prefer. Before installing the plugin, reduce the volume by -15 dB to avoid clipping.For experimentation, you can download a ripper and record an audio excerpt from the system. AI chat bots can help you do this. Then you will receive information about the signal level in the plugin and see how the signal itself changes visually.
Best song for test lewis and clark - tommy emmanuel or similar.

 

[bigtor1927]

I wonder how they got this headphone to get planar speed etc, like it genuinely sounds like a planar driver. I’m guessing it’s the TPCD?

These headphones are significantly superior to planar magnetics in terms of “speed,” and this is immediately noticeable. I listened to them in a store using A/B switching against various Audeze and HiFiMAN planar models. The sound of headphones of this type often feels somewhat unnatural. It’s hard to describe, but there is a constant sense of discomfort during listening—you simply can’t fully relax and enjoy the music.

In addition to the usual harmonic distortion, there are many other issues: phase distortion, intermodulation, and so on. The planar magnetic driver is not really about speed at all; unfortunately, it is too large and temperamental. I also used to consider planar magnetics to be something advanced and technically superior to the “old” dynamic driver, but apparently we have all become victims of marketing and the popularity of certain models that delivered a merely “different” sound rather than genuine improvements aligned with the true philosophy of hi-fi sound authenticity.

Thanks to a diaphragm that is extremely light yet rigid, combining metal strength with a carbon membrane, these headphones produce a very natural sound, responding instantly to transients and stopping just as quickly. I highly recommend that everyone audition this model in an audio salon or any other accessible environment. For me, these headphones truly became the endgame in my search for better sound, as most headphone models merely alter tonal balance—brighter timbre, weaker or stronger bass.

Their sound is reminiscent of listening to very expensive studio monitors in a properly treated room. Of course, excluding the stereo image created by two speakers, it still sounds like headphones. However, everything else—texture, clarity, vocal and percussion naturalness, instrument separation, and overall transparency—is simply incredible. Perhaps electrostatic headphones sound similar.

Reddit user KamilScott posted a mini review and comparison of the Sennheiser HD 630 and the HEDDphone D1—his impressions are worth reading. The feeling the D1 delivers is comparable to the first time you heard music through truly high-quality headphones: “Oh my God, how transparent the sound is, how perfectly everything is audible—new, previously unheard nuances everywhere.”

P.S.I apologize for the clichéd expressions, but there is no other way to say it.

 

[heyheybay]

I just created an account today to leave my impressions, I ain't some expert lol so dont have graphs to analyze but went in to my local store to try the senheisser he1 60,000$ USD priced headphones which were here on tour for a week, got an hour session with those with my own music in a private room with the built in tube amp and dac that the system comes with, was totally blown away as expected, the box even opens automatically like a convertible car.

Just for reference I have a bunch of headphones that I own such as the final audio d8000 pro, audeze lcd 2, hifiman arya stealth being some of the higher end ones. After my session the store employee recommended these HEDD d1s. I went in totally blind as in I had never even heard of this brand and just had an hour session with the rolce royce of headphones so already expected these to be average at best comparatively, but to my surprise I was simply blown away with these HEDD d1s. Same songs I tried just minutes back on the Senheisser He1 sounding basically 95% the same, honestly dont even know deep down whether the pricing bias is playing a factor in my impressions as a better idea would have been to take a friend or family member that simply does not know the price of each headphone to try them one after the other and I strongly believe most of them would say they sound largely the same, thats how good these were, after a session with the most expensive headphones in the world, I felt that these were right up there hanging with it especially in terms of Bass and treble. I also consider the final audio d8000 pro right up there as well but those are nearly 5 times the price of these HEDD d1s so in conclusion these are definitely a winner, my store did not have them in stock so just had this demo unit but it looks like I will be picking these up later this year, this could really be the headphone that sort of wraps up this hobby again till the next big thing arrives as I was out of the headphone/audio loop for the past 3-4 years. This was also just playing off my chord mojo and a laptop, thats it, crazy good for the price as normally after owning the d8000 pro's I thought I would be sort of done with this hobby for a few years but as the great Michael Corleone once said, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

 

[hiagain]

Very well tuned and designed headphones. It's tuning and dynamics is well presented in low volumes, which I admire.

 

[zonk]

Measurements by oratory1990

 

[Zoide]

I'm so tempted to try the HEDD D1... I know they're totally different types of headphones, but has anyone compared them to the DCA E3?

Let me know if you have the D1 and live in the Netherlands. Maybe we could do a mini-meet.