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everybody Brian from Mario head here today we have the new he5 60 from hi-fi man it is a planar magnetic head foam that retails for around $8.99 so it's up there near the kind of flagship Christ point flagship of sorts no doubt for high five man high five in replacing the he5 hundred in this case while the he6 still sits atop the food chain so to speak of the product line for high five mm it's quite hard to drive and it's just not as ubiquitous as these easier to drive have smaller more manageable headphones and when the hgz 500 came out a lot of people were you know just started to ask themselves you know is the he6 worth it well I have heard the 86 in partically it is quite amazing it is worthy of its flagship status however I should know it's soon to be replaced by the Aichi 1000 that's I saw at CES this year so high five man's got a lot of stuff going on but getting back to what I was saying before the it is a little bit of a hassle you can't drive it so easily it needs a lot of juice from the amp and these are just a great middle ground I kind of like the price point being just under a grand I also like the fact that you can drive them from a regular lamp now these are not the easiest to drive headphones on the plant they still require an amp to sound their best there's a lot of things to do but they're and they're not like as low as some of the new other planers that have come out and have gone in terms of how sensitive they are they're still up there a little bit you'll see you a slight power decrease over like your normal run-of-the-mill mainstream headphone but these the good news is and these puppies sound pretty juicy sound pretty good I was actually very very when I first put them on in terms of soundstaging and focus and three-dimensional holographic kind of staging from left to right in front to back I feel like the dimension dimensionality with these was probably one of the biggest takeaways and that is you know it also kind of stems from a very acute sense of detail so highly detailed really great base like the planners are know for good texture in the mids but I would say the top-end extension and the highs is pretty exceptional from these headphones as well now that being said my reference my favorite pair of the this very moment is still the Odysseys LCD 3 but that is because I prefer the laid back sound signature in the trouble so there's a little less trouble on the auto cds LCD 3 compared to these the high five man hg 560 so that sound sure is a little bit more trouble but the staging and the surrounding kind of focused instrument placement is pretty darn good on these so even though I still perform my reference for long-term hearing these are like nestled up pretty dang close to that and I think it's pretty noteworthy to point out that they are $900 as opposed to or closer to 2 grand or the LCDs so those looking kind of for a value proposition even though these are on the more expensive side of things I'd have to argue there is somewhat of a value proposition there at $900 even when you look at other things in the field and kind of how it compares so very very tight resolution another really interesting thing is that they've lightened these up so high fivin has said these are about 30% lighter than a lot of the other headphones out there and that is true on the head they aren't nothing however they are much much less than a lot of planners out there now that's changing more and more models are coming out that are finding ways to be lighter but when you kind of talk about hi-fi men and its roots its head planar tech it's been doing this for a while they're making strides in the right direction so they're really kind of improving upon the way they do things and the way they kind of manufacture more they're listening to the consumers you know basically is what it comes down to it's a lighter easier to wear headphone kind of hat still has like a cage-like design or on the top that it's not my favorite but it definitely works it's definitely wearable you could you could do a liquid a long listening session without too much fatigue another good point they've always kind of had is the detachable cable I've always quite enjoyed this part if you want to go balanced change to more expensive exotic custom cables you can get the hi-fi man connection on the end screws right into the headphone and where you go it's pretty secure does it fall off and also it allows for replacement cables which i think is something you kind of look for at the very we start getting into the high end of things it's almost like a requirement of sorts to make sure that it's as versatile as it can be and if you got this headphone for the long haul you're gonna be able to kind of take care of the wear and tear or you'll go really long if you have to go all the way to a dedicated headphone amplifier in your house those kind of things are nice to see you can see in the background here I've actually left in the box so kind of keeping close to a nine hundred dollar flagship it has a pretty fancy box some nice packaging the overall feel of the headphone isn't maybe as refined as some of the other flagships but I said it costs you know about half as much as some of those other flagships so I feel like the trade-off is is pretty well-balanced here I mean you get a lower price point but at the same time you still get kind of a flagship sound others might disagree and I don't disagree that $900 is not a lot of money I do think the $900 is a lot of money for a pair of headphones and so I can definitely understand how some people's expectation would be oh I get this headphone and I want like a really high-end feel but it's not bad I think it's kind of I think it's kind of nice it doesn't bother me all too much but it is isn't quite it's not like solid gold or anything the new HG 1000 that's coming out it's got a little more bling to the look a little more kind of a flashiness but these are like a nice simple understated pair of headphones that don't I mean they're fairly large in nature so I don't know if you're gonna wear them outside you still might turn some heads but it's not over overtly ridiculous I kind of like the look it's a little classic feel to me there's some wood edging around and the earcup is just you know plain not too much over going over the top I think it's nice simple plain good sounding I actually really really like this F a lot above quite a few of the other headphones that I have heard if you get a chance to listen to it I highly recommend it to see like I said before the sound signal signature is a little bit more trouble for it than some of the other stuff it's really kind of just two camps but I do feel like it still feels balanced on the head from top to bottom base is not overinflated but it's still nice deep thumpy mids are equally balanced it's a nice balanced headphone but a little bit more trouble than some of the other planar magnetics on the market currently so this is the AG HiFi man he5 $6,900 headphone really really really nice I'm very excited about this one to kind of get it in the lab here and listen to it so check it out if you get the chance thanks for watching later