HiFiMan HE-R10P Stealth Headphone Review

[dtaylo1066]

All I want for my money is good hi-fi, man, not ridiculously price and poor measuring HiFi Man.

That's one expensive felt-lined box.

 

[sealman]

Nice to see several of the trolls show up in the voting!

 

[Countach]

This is a complete disaster. 5,5k $? Dan Clark's Stealth and Audezes eat them for breakfast, especially when it comes to distortion.

 

[SuicideSquid]

The gall to charge $5,500 for something that should be $5.50.

 

[Hal Rockwell]

@amirm
I wish you'd have the chance to measure and review the HE-R10D.

 

[Angenor]

The whole crazyness comparing this shipwreck of a heaphone with the last tested piece of gear, excellently measuring active studio monitors (Mesanovic CDM65) that could also be used in a nice living room setup, even dispensing potentially ugly cables as it works wirelessly, and realizing that you could buy these and a really nice dinner on top for the same amount of money. The hifi market is just insane.

 

[bambadoo]

 

[August]

Casually adding covers to the original headphones = closed version, pure shoddy work!

 

[gvl]

Pardon my French, but for $5.5k, wtf?

 

[pablolie]

Wow.

I sometimes think that the greatest service (and there are many) this site provides isn't necesarily to find the "best" gear... it's *avoiding* this kind of utterly overpriced disaster. I am reminded of that article in "the absolute sound" (https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-law-of-accelerating-returns/) that made me retch a little and finally made me cancel my subscription. "The more you spend, the better the sound"... how stupid do they think we are? We've always known there is a lot of utterly overpriced garbage out there, but these days there is *zero* excuse to try to inflict it on the "masses". Go learn your d*mn craft, *then* build and sell something.

Note I am in no way saying all exotically priced gear is incompenently made, that's not the case at all. But good g*d, when you sell a premium product, at least try to get the basics right.

 

[Cogito]

The gall to charge $5,500 for something that should be $5.50.

I'd pay $5.50 for the box. It's quite nice

 

[VientoB]

Shocking distortion levels in the midrange there.

 

[VientoB]

I'd pay $5.50 for the box. It's quite nice

I'd pay £5.50 to wear them on the bus to look cool. I wouldn't have them plugged in, though.

 

[Sokel]

What's strange is that this distortion we see up at 1-2kHz is NOT level dependent,at least at what we can see at the upper limits of the chart.
On top of that coincides with the drop of response at the exact same range.
To call it bad design would be a compliment.Is the definition of broken.

Thanks Amir!

 

[pablolie]

What's strange is that this distortion we see up at 1-2kHz is NOT level dependent,at least at what we can see at the upper limits of the chart.
On top of that coincides with the drop of response at the exact same range.
To call it bad design would be a compliment.Is the definition of broken.
...

I don't like talking badly about companies' products because obviosuly people's jobs and dreams are at stake... but is this typical for Hifiman? It was several years ago when they came up and they got the usual high end reviews in the press... but I bought some and just didn't enjoy them, sold them on Ebay hardly losing money (but they were nowhere near 5k).

I'd like to think they design for specific personal preferences but... this one is brutal and pretty inexcusable.

Whoever sent them in - thank you! And if you liked them, don't take it personally! It's not always measurements that make us love something.

 

[kemmler3D]

how stupid do they think we are?

A non-negligible number of their readers buy audiophile ethernet equipment, so... pretty stupid.

 

[lordhumungous]

For the price this is a phenomenal deal for us older folk

 

[amirm]

It looks like the THD graph is truncated at the top, so is it even worse than it looks here? This must be one of the worst ever, let alone in VFM.

I keep the scale in the relative THD constant so comparisons are easy. So when distortion ratio is quite high, it goes above the graph. For this reason, I also show the absolute distortion:

Alas, since headphone frequency response is very variable, you can't get complete sense of scope of distortion.

 

[audiotron]

Highway robbery at its best!

 

[heraldo_jones]

Please, can you add to the poll the '0. Fuckin' expensive trash' ?