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The design is an homage to the legendary sony mdr-r10 from the 90s which is still considered the best closed back ever made by a lot of people.

Hearing Z say these are 600 and seeing them now on sale at 200 is insane

I bought these on the $369 sale. They sound incredible to me. I think I might like them MORE than my Meze Empyrean, Campfire Cascade, Focal Clears, Spirit Torino Radiante...I think I like them more than any other headphone I've heard. Obviously I must appreciate bass more than most audiophiles. They sound so 3-dimensional to me. So immersive. So beautiful. I LOVE THEM

Translating what I heard here; Basically Super base bloat headphones with decent stage and detail for the price and substandard build.

now on clearance for $99

at that price I want hand crafted wood!

Just ordered these directly from Hifiman on an open box deal for $450 (wired version). Excited to get them and try em out both wired and via BT with the blue mini I already have from Deva Pro!

I got the r7dx for $99 with the coupon code and they were terrible until I bent the headband like you said (now they are very nice). Going to give those to my brother and thinking of upgrading to either this or the Dan Clark aeon closed

There's a $5400 planar closed back of the same design but with wooden cups the HE-R10P - and yes this whole line is about referring to the Sony MDR-R10

These headphones are legit good. Wearing them right now. Soundstage + imaging + bass.

I just ordered them a few hours ago. I don't care about looks when it comes to technical equipment as long as it works. I saw those a few months ago and since then wanted to know how they sound having that much space behind the driver. No matter what kind of driver is installed. You are the first one saying it's a wooden sound. I.need.to.test.them. I even kind of like how they look xd

I tried these and I found them a bit disappointing. The build seemed plasticky and flimsy for the price and the isolation was poor. I could hear external noise almost like it was an open-back (which for me at least defeats the purpose of closed-back). I hope Hifiman will continue to make more closed backs because I liked the sound and I'd like to see what else they can come up with.

That chonky headband looks better with these cups than any of its other implementations. I actually don't mind its looks. I do own some Stanton Dynaphase, so perhaps I'm immune to giant cup prejudice.

They look like teletubby ears.

Closed backs are getting better then, that's certainly welcome. Maybe eventually we can get some sub $300 closed backs that are truly worth considering (other than the robin?)

They look like something out of Chobits.

I think they look awesome I picked some up can't wait to hear the bass. I think this design will accommodate the bass great with all that space know there. Love the color top. 😊

19:20 its a sign of good separation, speed and imaging ...

What a kickass studio

Yeah I bought these a few months ago and they rival some of my 1000 dollar cans. Glad you reviewed these. I highly recommend them!

Good news, everyone! Instead of being $600 headphones that are built like $300 headphones and sound like $1200 headphones, these are now $300 headphones that are built like $300 headphones and sound like $1200 headphones. I pity the fool that's forced to decide between these, the Dekoni Blue and the Meze 99 Classics, and as of right now I am that fool.

Thanks for the bass test song recommendations. It would be great if you did a Spotify or Tidal playlist of your test songs for a Patreon tier reward.

I'm a bit confused with these guys. Are you saying you can't use a dual 3.5mm to 4.4mm balanced cable with these? It only accepts the TRRS single cable balanced? Any thoughts why this limitation?

Hi, I'm using Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7 plugged into my motherboard I am thinking about buying the FiiO New K3 I've never had an external dac/amp, Will it actually make the headphones sound better?

I love huge cans.

These are on sale for $250 seems like a great deal?

NeuMann NDH-30 exists now. Someone said it's on Amazon.

Zeos is just scratching the surface, just wait until he hears that Hifiman also makes the HE-R10 dynamic for $1300 and planar version for $5500

I like the looks honestly Yea it's ugly Yea I'm not gonna wear them outside But they have character, I like them.

Just bought these for $109 on Amazon. *feels bad for anyone who paid $600 for them*

As the owner of 3 pairs of Hifiman.. "X doesn't look good for Y amount of money". Yeah welcome to the rest of the line up lol. Oh and a shit cable. Yup that is a Hifiman.

kinda look like they were trying to copy fostex 900s and dropped them on a table while the plastic was still cooling down from the molding

Yes and its on sale on the official store for 120 usd lmao That's a huge discount.

no nd filter on? very difficult to pay attention to wallpaper cans. very bright, whites burned... tut tut

I’ve played around with my hands (I know I know lol) covering the backs of my LCD2Cs, and you can kind of shape your hands like the cups of the R9’s, and that’s when they sound the best when covering them 🤷🏼‍♂️

These are 100 bucks now, and crazy good for that price.

These are just over 100USD now. Nuts.

Now on sale wired for $109!!!

I ordered a pair of Bravery partially cause I wanted a basis for your taste lol Now I can have a measuring stick when you describe things :)

I wonder if the 6k $$ planar version of this headphone has the same build, I don’t care if I got the numbers wrong

I picked these up for $109. I think they are on close out. Waiting to get them to try.

Is this a good headphone to go with my sony z1r? maybe they are good like the z1r. i would’ve liked more comparisons to them

These are 69 bucks on their website right now...heavily considering pulling the trigger Update: pulled the trigger

Zeos referenced Golden Sound lately, about how air wiggles violently. I totally forgot when he said this but i found it so hilarious that i wanna hear it again. Anyone here can give me a timestamp and Title? :)

Chobits ears

Hey @ZReviews are they a good buy if im getting them for $100?

Hmm these or t50/t60 argons?

Hey Zeos neumann ndh 30 the open back version of the ndh 20 are up on Neumann's site.

how about r10? they made a sony r10 clone, which has two versions, dynamic and planar.

lol, I’ll be at home, don’t care how they look, totally need to hear these

I have xduoo TA 26 - how about the sound of r9 with it???(source is my PC with DACmagic Plus I listening rock/metal music)

Z, I hope you'll recall the Fostex TH MKII as you reviewed a few years back. It is of course over and above all Japanse, as well as being finished in Urushi lacquer which is applied to the Japanese Cherry Birch housings, all of which a very elderly and extremely wise and experienced artisan does by hand, applying the lacquer layer by layer, with each layer the addition of an almost imperceptible amount of silver foils that end up being the magical touch after the 12 layers are finished, he patiently waits an entire day for each layer to fully cure. The end result is very similar to this color on the R9, at least to my eye and the comparison I've been able to do through looking at each model on my laptop screen. The R9 however, is quite different and there is one particular feature that stands out for me and makes me see the R9 as a female based solely on the following; the odd protrusion on the cups gives the appearance that it/she is a pregnant bitch, a half-sister to the MK2, the different parent's genes creating the discrepancy in the looks department. The pregnant bellies don't look normal either and this is alarming and has me worried that there is some really evil, hideous, perhaps alien or monstrous shit for a fetus in there. I'm not sure how you feel in regards to ******** but........ we neeeeed to make it happen regardless of if she is in one of those states that have backtracked via an imagined time machine to 50 years or so in the past and banned something that as we can see from this example is frankly in the best interest to the human race as a whole to continue especially to prevent whatever is inside of the R9.

You should try the R10P and R10D 😃

Z pummeled Hifiman into lowering the price lol.

These vs Modhouse Argon T60s?

Katamari Damacy looking

*Bizarro World* headphones…🎧

Oh crap.for $600 you just HAVE to demo the Pioneer SE-monitor 5 which have dropped into that sort of price range.

Coby has in the past.

HiFiMAN跳水王

This or Focal Elegia??

Headband sucks. Cost saving move. Same as the XS headband. XS is a Home Run with suspension headband

hoy menos de 200$ !!! BRUTAL!!! SENSILLAMENTE BRUTAL!!! UNA BARBARIDAD!!!

is there a spotify playlist of the bass test tracks he mentioned?

It's a shame they mostly marketed these as $600 headphones. They're $370 headphones when you skip the Bluetooth adapter most people don't need. It's a steal.

ok, so dumb question? How is that thing running single sided balanced when there is no connection from one driver to the other that I can see. Am I missing something?

Deva Pro has the same cable config, it's rather clever. ut I did have to make my own Francy cable setup

You said, R9 has the better bass Hifiman ever did. So, you have Flux amp on table. You have to try this with HE6. Then you will hear how the amazing visceral bass should sounds like. I didn’t hear Susvara. But HE6 bass… 👌

I like watching review of headphone I already own and think "what a good decision I make" even I've buy B&W P9 before

Shure 440A/840A (new version). Review?

thank you for answering my banner complaint.. sofa king tired of hitting that by accident. Also the swastika was a religious symbol of love/respect in Hinduism for thousands of years before the Germans took and and f'd it all up for eternity.

What does Weeknd's "Heartless" sound like in these? Does the bass make you go all bat sh*t?

I just got these this week. I am not interested in look or build quality but I am rather disappointed: they sound low resolution, modest detail and very moderate clarity. Shipping them back to Amazon with some regrets because the price and comfort was good.

So, these are $200 on amazon right now... Buy?

is $150 on sale 😮

Dam, so I was just about to buy the XS…now Ananda, Xs, or these giant robot muffs? Please advise before i press the buy button

I desperately *need* a closed back headphone, but just because of the looks, I'm not sure this is it. Sadly most of the good closed backs at this price point are not available here and have to be imported.

I will buy these if the wallpaper comes to life and shows up at my front door

They're $370 on Amazon at the moment.

can the 389 dollars requested to date drop?

Dang wish they sent the bluetooth module with this to you. That was really the star of the show.

"No other company that I can think of would have gone this fucking stupid with the cup" "Sony has done some crazy shit" lol these cup designs were literally stolen from the Sony MDR-R10 when Hifiman made the HE-R10p.

I have hifiman sundara's and they sound amazingly awesome and excellent unbelievably.. these were newer and cost a tiny bit more.. when my sundaras broke the head band strap its uncomfortable i needed to buy new ones i thought i'd replace them with these R9. I hoped they'd be like a closed back sundara.. but no they sound like 50% worse than sundara. I can hold my hands over backs of sundara and it sounds pretty great and richer bass lows. So i thought that was what these are.. But no.. It might just be that i dont have a balanced amp but these sound like you have your head inside or adjacent to the hollow of a huge stage subwoofer wooden enclosure and the speakers are playing next to your head what it sounds like inside a giant wooden enclosure with a really amped mic sound. Its probably that my amp isnt balanced and only an Xduoo xd05plus.. if i got the hifiman EF400 it might be sounding wayyy better and brighter i'd guess. These sound like boomy video game lows and bass might distort or clip? but im guessing it'd probably sound much better if i bought that bluemini thingy but it cost as much as the headphones themselves extra? So on the plus side if you hadnt bought like a gold plated OCC cable about 30$USD to replace your sundara or these R9's stock cable.. the stock cable with the R9's is actually quite great with them and the sundara. It gets a very life like natural sound out of both in sound profile especially with sundara's but it sounds less low latency and a bit less treble and clarity than the replacement upgrade gold plated OCC 16core cable i purchased separately but for a stock cable its awesome. Though im certain all hifiman products like my hifiman sundara need like what the bluemini outputs 4.4v amps or something of power to drive them or 5 -10v/amps or whatever. You probably need the best topping grade A amp with 5V or the proper hifiman ones or some sort of mini speaker amp to drive almost all hifiman gear so their cables and stuff are rated for those sorts of power levels. As i've never had anything better than my xduoo xd05 plus and im certain the bluemini R2R 's 4.4volts is made to sound less good than a proper hifiman amp with higher voltage or wattage whatever it was output.. well you get the idea. these headphones might be super secret awesome paired with the right amp.. or maybe im using them wrong? bluemini seems to go to one headphone port..i been using both left and right with like a Y shaped cable comes with it. I .. also dont own a balanced headphone amp. so my complaints might not be valid at all. But first impressions of what i can hear and see.. i'd choose sundaras instead. i've a config.ini file in my PC with hardwareextremelyultimatefullvolumetruefullaudionext and hardwaretruefullsoundgeneration hardwaretruefullsoundsynthesis ? soundboost and soundamplification both at 10+ directaudiokernel2 usbaudio2 ? and other settings or whatever lowlatency-AA and things in my config file when testing.. ooh maybe levels and bass and strongdynamicrangecompression and other things in there too when testing. So who knows if my listening experience is what you are supposed to hear with them.. ? works great with sundaras though. Also, the APTX HD audio seems like it wont auto select for the bluemini. I received the bluemini with a DEVAPRO for $160usd open box maybe from hifiman official store other day it seems my LG V60 developer options not let it switch to LDAC or APTX HD if can select it not greyed out then it has like no audio quality or lower or no change. It may require specific content file formats to work or something dumb? But selecting previously selectable optional codecs from LG or selecting system defaults arent an option it always tries to default to lousy awful disgusting AAC or SBC even with HD audio toggled. But most importantly the DEVA PRO and the R9's come with a good audio cable but the larger gold jack on the end thats removable is SUPER LOUSY. I have no clue why it looks almost identical to the others i have which mostly sound great but some sound super lousy theres often a subtle colour difference hard to spot but thats maybe just new vs much much older? are people stealing these and swapping with fakes?

there's the r10 from hifiman that is made from wood, maybe it might sound like super wood.

Great review, wanna buy this for bass💥💥

If i wasnt a broke middle schooler I would buy these

Malos mouse pad? It sounds like you have food in your mouth

低频太多了

SHOULD I GET THESE FOR 200 IN 2023 😐

HD 600

I want these to have fun playing fortnite!

No matter how well it sounds, I just don't like Hifiman as a company, the R10 launch was atrocious, How the CEO acted there Is just smug advertisement, he singlehandedly made R10 a niche product. And anyone wondered why R9 exactly has that color and have a black background on its box? They just oozes the bad image of old Chinese manufacturer's stereotypes. also their build. Sure, Im still salty about my Ananda's R driver dying due to Micromold, but damn that is a very baaaaaad headband for a multi thousand dollars headphone dammit 🤣.

looks like shooting earmuffs lol

Hideous looking design

Would have never bought these for 600 - but on sale now for $369 I'm giving them a shot. Honestly based on what others are saying, I think that's probably still too much.I fear that once I get them I'm going to say, pretty good, but probably should have been $300 max. $250 is probably about right, like Z said in vid. Will update when I get them.

Lipstick looks.

hifiman cans are ugly and cheap feeling

thank you

$600 for these pieces of crud is pitiful. They don't sound all that great, Hifiman makes much more comfortable cans, the cable sucks, and build quality in typical Hifiman fashion is pathetic. The flimsiness of the HE-R9 pays homage to older Hifimans from 6 years ago. Hifiman has been in this industry for some time now. Stop giving them a free pass.