The HifiMan Edition XS modding project begins and a look at the Arya Organnic 

As an owner of a pair of HE-400SE, loved to see you mod them Can't wait to see the results of this project 💪🏼

Perfect timing... looking into purchasing the XS but seeing you take this journey now as well makes me more excited. Your HE400SE mods are top-tier.

I love my XS comfort strap. You’ve made my headphones better! Can’t wait to see what you end up doing to them.

Also! Just spent a few hours binge watching your vids. Jeeze you make brilliant content! Bravo 👏 👏

Excellent video, as usual. I wouldn't value metal grills more than equally (non-) sounding plastic ones, as long as they are robust enough. In fact, metal ones might be more prone to ring. I am also very glad you're considering selling more high-end models, as long as there's a clear advantage in sound quality and realism. I am spreading the word in social media about your cables (having bought some myself and tried them). Please, keep up the good work.

I have your confort strap for the xs and it's great ! I'm exited to see what you'll do with them

XS Owner here. I am reasonably happy with them, although my HD600's get much more on-ear time. Following to see if you can find something to tune them up! Thanks for trying in advance!

Interested in picking up the Arya Organic with one of your cables. Just received your cable for my HD600 today as well as mod kit, love it!

This was super cool to see, having started my headphone journey with the edition xs, and now i have the Arya organic. Yes the organics are amazing!

Interested for sure 😊

The ringing thing that happens with the aluminum grill is probably a main issue. If one can flick their fingers across the grill and get a xylophone-like resonant sound response, that's got to be interacting with the sound in an audible way. Eliminating that would probably be most easily accomplished with a more neutral plastic or hard rubber grill. I'm sure you've thought of this already and it may be kind of the direction you're going. I guess it'll depend on what the FR looks like with any prototype and it would be hard to predict what the outcome would be. I wonder if HiFiMan intentionally wanted aluminum there to alter the FR to get their FR goal for the cans, or was it just a looks/protection thing? There's some modding discussion I think on head-fi on the XS thread too. Thanks for doing all this stuff, I'm really enjoying my XS's more with the Comfort Strap and look forward to whatever you come up with!

I keep hearing very positive comments from using Dekoni Elite Velour earpads on the XS, as far as deeper bass anyways. Keep up the good work Jason. I've picked up a pair of the XS myself 2 weeks ago. Decent quality sound for the $.

I hope you can do something to the Sundara. IMO they only need a bit more bass, specially sub bass so maybe nothing too dratic is needed.

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Thanks for the interesting video! Have you held the 400se and XS in your hands, can you tell me how much better the XS is, should I switch to it from the 400se?

Cool Jason, just mod the shit out of it !

Uh nice proyect, the xs are so god

Ive been playing with the sundara closed and quickly learnt to put a porone pad over the back of the driver when taking them out. Dampening the cups and switching to solid pads have done some good for them, but im curious to know what they measure like as open backs. Would you mind doing a measurement of them without the cup, similar to what you did with the XS? It would be interesting to try a Sundara closed-open mod 🙂

Could you do metal grills for the he400se and he560e's?

Please make the mod for the HE6 SE V2 as well, as the one for the HE400 SE was amazing! I tried it with the HE 6 V2, was good, but if you could adapt it to it would be awesome! Thanks

any news about it?)

Im moaning in the comments oooooohh, getting that interaction score up.

I will complain that your strap mod for the Edition XS is out of stock.

I have 6 different pairs of Hifiman headphones, I do not need another pair... that said, I want a pair of the organics now... I hate this channel, it keeps costing me money