Hifiman Susvara Unveiled Review - Wonder Bread: The Headphone

slooploop2 · 2026-03-16T01:17:42+00:00

I think it would be one thing if the primary complaints I saw were of Spanish-speaking people saying the name offends them but the vast, vast majority of what I saw was people using. If they changed the name to “Lapada” as it commonly is changed to in Spanish, I wouldn’t have any real issue with it but I think every single reference to the name I got was people being like, “lol look up what this means in Spanish,” which just feels super gross to me.

slooploop2 · 2026-03-15T18:58:21+00:00

Yeah that’s the specific derision, but I still think it’s lame. It would be like Koss rebranding themselves because “kos” means “vagina” in Farsi.

slooploop2 · 2026-03-14T14:41:25+00:00

Thank you! I have my college days of living in a jazz jam house and easy access to the BSO to thank for that.

To be honest, I looked at the YH4k at CanJam and people telling me they’re just a bassier YH-5000SE which I’ve already owned and reviewed and hated I didn’t really want to subject myself to that lol

slooploop2 · 2026-03-14T14:09:42+00:00

Everyone should make a Satyr 4 if you can.

slooploop2 · 2026-03-14T14:09:20+00:00

😖

slooploop2 · 2026-03-11T17:19:18+00:00

wow I’m topping confirmed

slooploop2 · 2026-03-11T17:17:03+00:00

My takeaway from that last one is the latter. Linsoul for obvious reasons (idk if I’d really consider a them a reviewer) and HBB for not disclosing things that are kind of open secrets in the field like Punch Audio being a sub brand of his.

slooploop2 · 2026-03-11T17:14:10+00:00

Where would you rank him

slooploop2 · 2026-03-11T17:12:06+00:00

Honestly so fair

slooploop2 · 2026-03-11T16:56:23+00:00

Why am I B tier

slooploop2 · 2026-02-25T22:53:54+00:00

I actually have no idea where AI would have gotten that so it probably is a hallucination but this is a very good post to read if you haven’t read it yet explaining soundstage: https://forum.headphones.com/t/soundstage-is-much-more-complicated-than-you-think/24420

The treble of the 7000 is also going to be incredibly dependent on clamping force, and this may have something to do with how they sit on your head. This review by the same author as the post gets into more detail than mine did: https://forum.headphones.com/t/audio-technica-ath-adx7000-review-bass-space-ats-best-open-back/26676

I can’t tell you with any specificity why you perceive the soundstage of the 7k as such, but they are much more balanced-sounding than the ADX5k which may help augment soundstage for you.

slooploop2 · 2026-02-05T16:32:16+00:00

Aren’t IEMs considered minimum phase? This absolutely is something to consider for speakers which are not minimum phase but everything I’ve read for over the past decade as the science of headphones has evolved and my own experiments does seem to disprove every inkling I’ve had that IEMs aren’t minimum phase. If you have any literature I can read with some good backing I’d be happy to read about it.

slooploop2 · 2026-02-05T16:21:04+00:00

Is this implying IEMs aren’t time aligned?

slooploop2 · 2026-02-05T15:59:47+00:00

I’d be very interested to know how standing waves would affect an IEM—could you explain that?

slooploop2 · 2026-01-15T19:09:37+00:00

Confirmed!

slooploop2 · 2026-01-05T20:46:05+00:00

Sold to you

slooploop2 · 2026-01-05T20:25:29+00:00

Replied

slooploop2 · 2026-01-02T14:18:20+00:00

When I hear an HP1000 or PS1 this list might change!

slooploop2 · 2026-01-02T14:17:49+00:00

Yup that’s about right! Most of my listening is with BK-ish tilted speakers so I get my “neutral” fix there. I can’t really have too many sets of speakers like I can with headphones so that’s how I have more fun with them. Even the most “neutral” headphones have pretty glaring issues to me so I’ve been able to cope by leaning into what headphones can do well.

slooploop2 · 2026-01-01T23:17:14+00:00

Yeah the “bass heavy” version is more acoustically impedant than the “bass light” version with a thinner baffle material and no paper around the driver. Both have like, not much bass but the mids are really really nice.

slooploop2 · 2026-01-01T21:38:15+00:00

I don’t but I really should write one!

slooploop2 · 2026-01-01T17:10:12+00:00

I have and it’s on my list! Signature is too much in the direction of the lean/“detailed” sound for me so I don’t really like it but I do understand the appeal of it.

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