Many thanks to Justin and Steve. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot even with a relatively small size of the group. Definitely looking forward to future meets (and hope I can make it). 

Just to confirm, the meet is tomorrow from 11 to 5 right?   Some how your post make it sound like it's happening on Sunday...

Depending on my work schedule I may be able to go.    I can bring along: HE-6, W60, and NFB10ES (if it's not sold by then). 

Thank you. Now we should say it's not rumor any more. It's in the process of being discontinued...

  One thing I'm pretty sure of is that Hifiman is no longer a 'small business' per se, if that's what you're referring to...    If the rumors are real they may be discontinuing HE-6 very soon, so here's some more pressure for you... 

This Month ??? That's insane...

Mine is actually 1/8 inch at 50 duro. 

Yes I agree it might have to do with the specific configuration, size, etc. I will listen for some more and decide if I need to change something. It would indeed take a lot of experiment, equipment and time to objectively understand the effect function of this mod, and then it would still be...

Here are some pics of my sorbothane mod on HE6:       It's by no means a neat work, but I personally think it won't look bad if you could space out the sorb patches more regularly. I 'stacked' two patches together at the bottom part of the ring, because of the lack of room for more...

I may be able to take some photos tomorrow. Now it's too dark to make out the details, as the black sorbothane is attached to the black interior housing. 

While I happened to perform both the fuzzor mod and the Sorbothane mod on my HE-6 today, I can almost be sure that the Sorb helped increase the transparency of their sound. This is because last time I modded one side with fuzzor and left the other side intact, and the difference was mostly about...

Totally sensible. I can never spend 3k on a headphone so it only gives me relief that HE-6 is by no means far off from HE1K (from what I've read, which is a little). 

@TonyNewman In case you missed it preproman had made a very nice comparison in HE1k thread and I believe there's a reference to that post a few pages back in this thread. 

  @Oregonian--I think @melikeheadphone was asking about your ear pads--which I believe to be Stax 007 pads. Correct me if I'm wrong.    Just trying to help out with the little confusion here...

Infected Mushroom is really good. I like their earlier albums better though. Before start using speaker amp HE-6 for me does an adequate job playing those. Now every track of IM just makes me keep bobbing my head.

Thank you. Apparently there are quite several options for balanced passive preamp as well. Emotiva has one, for example. I'd assume the price difference doesn't mean too much, given how passive preamps work, it should just be better quality parts. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Thank you. This is exactly what I plan to do. Sadly the balanced version of this has one step higher price. Not that balanced means a lot to me, but now I have only balanced interconnects, and don't really want to spend the time or money to swap them back to SE.

Thank you! The little dot is actually a quite powerful headphone amp by its own standard. So it's probably reasonable to have a pretty high gain and some noise floor. But the speaker amp is really no myth, it is true.

Also the amp is utterly silent by itself. But it picked up the noise floor from the LD MKVI (now functioning as a preamp) very strongly--the noise floor is not noticeable when driven by the MKVI itself. I guess this is also an indication of the amp being good at showing details? In other words...

I am now a happy camper of speaker amp for HE-6! Bought a B&K 125.2 off ebay (which I asked about ~ a week ago) and it arrived today. Right from the start is such a dramatic difference compared to my old LD MKVI (I know, probably a bit underpowered here). The bass is so phenomenal... full...

With a budget around $1000 I'm looking for a DAC upgrade from my NFB10ES. Since 10ES is kind of an older version of the current NFB28 I don't think anything from Audio-gd less than NFB7 or M7 is worth it, yet my budget and desktop space tends to deny the two big boys.   My main requirement...

Thank you for your comment. I'm going to try it. 

Has anyone tried one of the B&K amps with HE6? Looks good on paper: class A, MOSFET, balanced...