HiFiMan HE6se V2

“The previous Hifiman flagship was the HE-6 and the new flagship HE-1000 was a different design and not similar to the HE-6. Plenty of love towards the HE-6 still existed since both products operated in different spaces plus different price points. When Hifiman announced the Edition 6 but in the day, I was at CES at the time and watching the reaction in real time was a sight to behold. We were at $1200 MSRP on the HE-6 and having the successor being $6000 was a massive step up that pissed off a lot of people. The reputation back in the day with poorly made Hifiman products was still in full swing and if you want to witness the biggest case of someone putting their foot in their mouth, go to the Head-Fi thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hifiman-edition-6-headphones.831355/ When Tyll was around, he did an interview with Fang and it was a bit meme'd on since Tyll asked why was it so expensive. The response was "because it sounds so good" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlDRV8ao6g The thread on HF went full really off the rails especially once Fang jumped in there and started defending the product and his brand. It went a bit south and the biggest dumb moment came when he compared his treatment on the forum to his grandfather in the cultural revolution: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hifiman-edition-6-headphones.831355/post-13171681 Thread went real south and mods did close the thread as nothing good was going to come of it after that post. Few months later the name was changed to the Susvara but people still remembered how poor of an announcement it had at CES so there was still a lot of negative opinion on the headphones. Price did remain at the $6k price and the headphones have sold well since then, least in relative terms as one would expect for a product at that price.”