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title: "HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones"
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# 80% thinner diaphragm for ultra-detailed sound Upgraded OFC cable & 3.5mm connector for lasting performance All-metal headband built for urban durability HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones

**Brand:** hifiman
**Price:** € 357.00
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎶 Elevate your audio game — don’t just listen, experience every detail with Sundara!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones by hifiman
- **How much does it cost?** € 357.00 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- hifiman enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted hifiman brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Future-Proof Sound:** 150-hour burn-in unlocks the headphones’ full sonic potential, making every listen a revelation.
- • **Comfort Meets Style:** Weight-spreading strap and redesigned earpads ensure hours of fatigue-free listening with a fashion-forward look.
- • **Plug & Play Excellence:** Enhanced 3.5mm connector and premium OFC cable deliver reliable, distortion-free audio every time.
- • **Urban-Ready Durability:** Sleek matte black metal frame designed to withstand the hustle of city life without compromising style.
- • **Audiophile-Grade Clarity:** Experience crystal-clear planar magnetic sound with a wider frequency response that reveals every nuance.

## Overview

The HIFIMAN SUNDARA headphones feature an 80% thinner planar magnetic diaphragm for superior detail and a wider frequency range. Built with a durable all-metal headband and upgraded cables, they combine urban toughness with audiophile-grade sound. Designed for extended comfort with weight-spreading straps and improved earpads, these wired headphones deliver a balanced, precise soundstage ideal for music, movies, and gaming. A recommended 150-hour burn-in period ensures peak performance, making Sundara a top-tier choice under £300 for discerning listeners.

## Description

HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones: desertcart.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Review: Quality Build, Top notch Soundstage, Great Sound, Great Comfort and affordable Balanced Headphones - Solid metal construction that doesn't feel heavy and fits snug on my head even with glasses on. The earcups have a strange shape but it fits better than my previous cans " DT990 Pros, AKG K712-Pros " Soundstage for Music is fantastic.... Now it has reduced horizontal soundstage compared to my previous 2 cans but not by much.. However vertically it smashes both of my previous cans! Outstanding to tell you the truth.. Gaming is rather impressive and not only does it easily destroy my AKG 712 pros but it beats out the DT990 pros too which was somewhat surprising! Very pleasing as a gamer. Comfort is brilliant but not as good as AKG 712 pros. I used to be able to GAME all day long on my AKG cans if I wanted too and would get up and forget that they were on my head! Now these do feel great and are very comfortable but just not the best! But I can still game for 4+ hours before I feel like I HAVE to take them off! Probably would be better without glasses to be fair as I do feel that added pain right by my ears and not the headband area or squashing the head! I'd say yee without glasses would fair better here. I use an IFI Zen DAC V2 connected to my desktop computer with balanced cables and it does sound outstanding....Balanced cables did improve sound slightly but it isn't night and day as expected anyway. I also own a Creative G6 BlasterX DAC/AMP - Creative G1 BlasterX DAC/AMP - Creative Sound Blaster Z - Fiio - FIIO E07K DAC/AMP and my onboard Realtek 1200 chipset. IFI ZEN DAC V2 blows the rest of them out of the water.. pointless having anything else except for the IFI ZEN DAV V2. Creative have lost their identity.. soundstage for gaming was laughable...useless trash.....IFI just blew my mind.. shocking actually.. This is a great buy to be honest.... if you want something that sounds great for music, great for movies especially with Dolby Atmos and Netflix! and when it comes to gaming.. I was gobsmacked..very impressed with how they perform! Very wide soundstage and no need for virtual surround.. it just works right out of the box without the need for any of the fancy creative SBX controls..... finally after 15 years I don't use a creative sound card.....
Review: The benchmark for audiophile sound quality - There's nothing else quite like the HiFiMAN Sundara for £300 or less. Planar magnetic headphones are still a relatively rare choice of driver for headphones with only a few companies attempting to make them. HiFiMAN is not only unusual as a company for making planar headphones, it specialises in them. Planar magnetic headphones are essentially a thin sound producing diaphragm stuck between two rows of magnets. The diaphragm is suspended in the air between the two rows and produces sound from the fluctuations in the magnetic field as current is passed through the magnets. Planars specialise in reproducing fine detail from a recording for relatively little effort. At least, in theory. In practice, with a solid enough design, traditional dynamic driver headphones and planars can and do trade blows in fidelity on a regular basis. What is true for sure though is that planars have a totally different character to their sound than dynamic drivers - planars have a habit of throwing that fine detail they can retrieve in your face whether you're listening out for it or not. The Sundara model currently being sold on desertcart appears to be the July 2022 revision or newer. The Sundara was originally released in 2017 and has been modified several times since then, but this review will focus on the version I received. If you have an earlier version of the Sundara and want to update the headphone, all you need to do is replace the earpads with the latest revision as that is the only build change. The version I received came with the redesigned and much more modest cardboard boxes with foam inserts instead of the more elaborate display cases of earlier versions. The foam insert in the box includes a removeable piece that functions as a free headphone stand if that takes your fancy. It barely weighs anything so it's a little difficult to keep in one place on a desk. You also will receive a complementary dual 3.5mm to 3.5mm headphone cable and a 3.5mm to 6.5mm jack adapter. I had no problems with this cable, but this is easily replaced with aftermarket cables if it's not to your liking. The Sundara supports balanced audio input, and I recommend using it this way if you're able to do so. Unlike most of HiFiMAN's more expensive offerings, the Sundara uses their older round earcup design. It's quite snug on the ears and takes a little getting used to, but you should soon forget you have it on your head after a while. The headband is a simple metal band with a faux leather support band designed to even out the pressure on your head. In my experience this design is quite effective and comfortable, even if it feels a bit cheap. It's clear the budget is going mostly to the actual headphone drivers themselves, and I'm fine with this tradeoff. HiFiMAN has a house sound that all their headphones broadly adhere to like most headphone companies do. The sound signature is bright-leaning - the treble (3 - 10KHz) and air (10 - 20KHz) regions are emphasised slightly more than in a completely flat frequency response - and there is also a significant dip between 1000 and 3000Hz which further emphasises the treble and air regions. These regions contribute the most to a sense of detail and precision in what you hear, so this house sound is likely designed to highlight the planar's favourite party trick. Bass is audible but rolled-off - you can hear it all the way down to the lower audible limit of 20Hz but it's quieter than it should be in a flat response. If you are used to bassy headphones or a typically tuned car stereo, this will come as a shock at first, as this is the inverse tuning of what you're used to. Overall though, while there is light emphasis and de-emphasis in places, the sound signature is mostly neutral, not drawing specific attention to any region and giving every section of your music and audio equal attention in the presentation. As the cliché goes, you'll hear things in your music that were always there but that you never noticed before, over and over again. If you end up dissatisfied with the way they sound, they respond extremely well to EQ, so you can fill in and/or boost the bass and eliminate the 1-3KHz dip if you so wish. In other words, these are audiophile-grade reference tuned headphones with significantly better detail retrieval than the average. If you're unfamiliar with what makes a headphone or speaker audiophile-grade, it can be described as what was originally recorded and mastered is what you hear played back. If you're listening to a recording with a violin way off at the back of the room, an acoustic guitar right next to the recording mic and a cello slightly off to the side, on an audiophile headphone you will hear an acoustic guitar right in front of you, a violin that sounds very far away, and a cello slightly off to the side. This sense of a space instruments are playing in and how big it is is referred to as the soundstage and being able to precisely locate where the instruments are playing in the room is referred to as the imaging. If you wish to watch movies with surround sound or game on these headphones, the imaging and soundstage become much more important. Headphones can use binaural audio playback to mimic (or exceed!) surround sound in movies and games while still using a stereo signal. By audiophile headphone standards though, the Sundaras are nothing special in either imaging or soundstage. That is not to say they are bad - they will blow your socks off still if you're coming from mainstream audio but they do not particularly excel in either category - they are simply good enough for the job on both the vertical and horizontal axis, and that will probably be enough for most people. There is one caveat to this, however. You will probably get better imaging performance out of a HiFiMAN headphone at any price point if you feed it with a "dual-mono" source. This is a form of audio reproduction that keeps the left and right channels completely separate - the channels use separate amp circuits and never have any chance to mix by mistake at any point in the chain. If you do not do this, you may experience a "deadzone" of sorts in the centre image, where sound lightly panned less than ~15 degrees in either direction is artificially snapped to the centre channel at 0 degrees. This can subjectively make music sound more coherent in the centre but could be quite disorienting when gaming. The iFi Zen DAC v2 and the FiiO K7 are both dual-mono amps and you need to use the balanced 4.4mm connection on these amps to keep the channels truly separated, which will require a specialised aftermarket cable that you can find right here on desertcart. I said there's nothing else quite like the HiFiMAN Sundara for £300 or less. That's because there is no other headphone on the market that is this close to the complete package with the planar sound signature that doesn't cost more money. If you just want to buy one audiophile headphone and get it over and done with, this is the one to buy. If however you like the planar sound but want a headphone with exceptional soundstage and imaging, not merely adequate and dead-flat bass extension without the rolloff, consider extending your budget to £500 and looking at the HiFiMAN Edition XS.

## Features

- Featuring Newly Developed Diaphragm that is 80% Thinner than the HE400 Series Resulting in a Wider Frequency Response, Faster and More Detailed.
- With the weight spreading strap for outstanding comfort but with a more fashion conscious look with its sleek and sumptuous matte black finish
- With its all metal headband the SUNDARA is built to take the rigours of urban street life. The SUNDARA is as tough as it is beautiful
- New 3.5mm Headphone connector for enhanced durability.
- This latest version of SUNDARA now is supplied with newly improved earpads for enhanced durability and a newly upgraded cable made with stronger, further improved materials (of OFC wire) custom designed for the headphone
- Please allow for a period of “burn in” where you allow playback of audio for a period of 150 hours to allow the headphones to reach their fullest audio potential

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B07BY82GLL |
| Age range (description) | Adult |
| Best Sellers Rank | 1,026 in In-Ear Headphones |
| Cable feature | Without Cable |
| Compatible devices | A variety of devices with audio output jacks |
| Connectivity technology | Wired |
| Connector | 1/4" Jack, 3.5mm Jack |
| Control method | App |
| Control type | Noise Control |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (732) |
| Date First Available | 7 April 2018 |
| Hardware Interface | 3.5mm Audio |
| Included components | Cable |
| Item Weight | 371 g |
| Item model number | SUNDARA |
| Item weight | 13.12 Ounces |
| Material | Metal |
| Material Type | Metal |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Package type | FFP |
| Product Dimensions | 1 x 1 x 1 cm; 372 g |
| Recommended uses for product | Listen to music |
| Size | 1 x 1 x 1 cm |
| Specific uses for product | Music |
| Style | Single |
| Water resistance level | Not Water Resistant |
| Wireless communication technology | cable |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** HIFIMAN
- **Colour:** black
- **Ear placement:** Over Ear
- **Form factor:** Over Ear
- **Frequency response:** 75000 Hz
- **Headphone jack:** 3.5 mm Jack
- **Impedance:** 37 Ohms
- **Model name:** sundara
- **Noise control:** Active Noise Cancellation
- **Sensitivity:** 94 dB

## Images

![HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/21PjjoSaKcL.jpg)
![HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+o3B8hYtL.jpg)
![HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51HrT8LzbiL.jpg)
![HIFIMAN SUNDARA Planar Magnetic Over Ear Hi-Fi Headphones - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51nPS4Mj75L.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Would this headphone be balanced? looking for quality headphones for my zen dac via 4.4mm pentaconn**
A: I use the Ablet 4.4mm cable with the Ifi Zen dac. Don't listen to the negative reviews. The balanced connection transforms the HifiMan headphones.

**Q: Can someone recommend a good balanced 4.4mm cable to use with these? to work with my ifi zen dac v2. cheers.**
A: I use the Ablet Hifi cable 4.4MM balanced male for Beyerdynamics… it works fine with the Sundara and Ifi DAC

**Q: Why did mine arrive in plain cardboard box with Hifiman tape around it and just polystyrene cut to the shape of the headphones and no instructions.**
A: HiFiMAN revised their packaging in 2022 on all their current products. The packaging you describe matches this revised packaging.

**Q: How are these for gaming and movies? Do they have a spacious sound stage with accurate imaging? Thanks!**
A: I use mine for music and gaming on my PC. They are great at both.  Excellent soundstage and locating people on sound along is easy.  Had senhiser 600s before these and these are much better.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quality Build, Top notch Soundstage, Great Sound, Great Comfort and affordable Balanced Headphones
*by M***S on 27 December 2021*

Solid metal construction that doesn't feel heavy and fits snug on my head even with glasses on. The earcups have a strange shape but it fits better than my previous cans " DT990 Pros, AKG K712-Pros " Soundstage for Music is fantastic.... Now it has reduced horizontal soundstage compared to my previous 2 cans but not by much.. However vertically it smashes both of my previous cans! Outstanding to tell you the truth.. Gaming is rather impressive and not only does it easily destroy my AKG 712 pros but it beats out the DT990 pros too which was somewhat surprising! Very pleasing as a gamer. Comfort is brilliant but not as good as AKG 712 pros. I used to be able to GAME all day long on my AKG cans if I wanted too and would get up and forget that they were on my head! Now these do feel great and are very comfortable but just not the best! But I can still game for 4+ hours before I feel like I HAVE to take them off! Probably would be better without glasses to be fair as I do feel that added pain right by my ears and not the headband area or squashing the head! I'd say yee without glasses would fair better here. I use an IFI Zen DAC V2 connected to my desktop computer with balanced cables and it does sound outstanding....Balanced cables did improve sound slightly but it isn't night and day as expected anyway. I also own a Creative G6 BlasterX DAC/AMP - Creative G1 BlasterX DAC/AMP - Creative Sound Blaster Z - Fiio - FIIO E07K DAC/AMP and my onboard Realtek 1200 chipset. IFI ZEN DAC V2 blows the rest of them out of the water.. pointless having anything else except for the IFI ZEN DAV V2. Creative have lost their identity.. soundstage for gaming was laughable...useless trash.....IFI just blew my mind.. shocking actually.. This is a great buy to be honest.... if you want something that sounds great for music, great for movies especially with Dolby Atmos and Netflix! and when it comes to gaming.. I was gobsmacked..very impressed with how they perform! Very wide soundstage and no need for virtual surround.. it just works right out of the box without the need for any of the fancy creative SBX controls..... finally after 15 years I don't use a creative sound card.....

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The benchmark for audiophile sound quality
*by V***N on 12 April 2023*

There's nothing else quite like the HiFiMAN Sundara for £300 or less. Planar magnetic headphones are still a relatively rare choice of driver for headphones with only a few companies attempting to make them. HiFiMAN is not only unusual as a company for making planar headphones, it specialises in them. Planar magnetic headphones are essentially a thin sound producing diaphragm stuck between two rows of magnets. The diaphragm is suspended in the air between the two rows and produces sound from the fluctuations in the magnetic field as current is passed through the magnets. Planars specialise in reproducing fine detail from a recording for relatively little effort. At least, in theory. In practice, with a solid enough design, traditional dynamic driver headphones and planars can and do trade blows in fidelity on a regular basis. What is true for sure though is that planars have a totally different character to their sound than dynamic drivers - planars have a habit of throwing that fine detail they can retrieve in your face whether you're listening out for it or not. The Sundara model currently being sold on Amazon appears to be the July 2022 revision or newer. The Sundara was originally released in 2017 and has been modified several times since then, but this review will focus on the version I received. If you have an earlier version of the Sundara and want to update the headphone, all you need to do is replace the earpads with the latest revision as that is the only build change. The version I received came with the redesigned and much more modest cardboard boxes with foam inserts instead of the more elaborate display cases of earlier versions. The foam insert in the box includes a removeable piece that functions as a free headphone stand if that takes your fancy. It barely weighs anything so it's a little difficult to keep in one place on a desk. You also will receive a complementary dual 3.5mm to 3.5mm headphone cable and a 3.5mm to 6.5mm jack adapter. I had no problems with this cable, but this is easily replaced with aftermarket cables if it's not to your liking. The Sundara supports balanced audio input, and I recommend using it this way if you're able to do so. Unlike most of HiFiMAN's more expensive offerings, the Sundara uses their older round earcup design. It's quite snug on the ears and takes a little getting used to, but you should soon forget you have it on your head after a while. The headband is a simple metal band with a faux leather support band designed to even out the pressure on your head. In my experience this design is quite effective and comfortable, even if it feels a bit cheap. It's clear the budget is going mostly to the actual headphone drivers themselves, and I'm fine with this tradeoff. HiFiMAN has a house sound that all their headphones broadly adhere to like most headphone companies do. The sound signature is bright-leaning - the treble (3 - 10KHz) and air (10 - 20KHz) regions are emphasised slightly more than in a completely flat frequency response - and there is also a significant dip between 1000 and 3000Hz which further emphasises the treble and air regions. These regions contribute the most to a sense of detail and precision in what you hear, so this house sound is likely designed to highlight the planar's favourite party trick. Bass is audible but rolled-off - you can hear it all the way down to the lower audible limit of 20Hz but it's quieter than it should be in a flat response. If you are used to bassy headphones or a typically tuned car stereo, this will come as a shock at first, as this is the inverse tuning of what you're used to. Overall though, while there is light emphasis and de-emphasis in places, the sound signature is mostly neutral, not drawing specific attention to any region and giving every section of your music and audio equal attention in the presentation. As the cliché goes, you'll hear things in your music that were always there but that you never noticed before, over and over again. If you end up dissatisfied with the way they sound, they respond extremely well to EQ, so you can fill in and/or boost the bass and eliminate the 1-3KHz dip if you so wish. In other words, these are audiophile-grade reference tuned headphones with significantly better detail retrieval than the average. If you're unfamiliar with what makes a headphone or speaker audiophile-grade, it can be described as what was originally recorded and mastered is what you hear played back. If you're listening to a recording with a violin way off at the back of the room, an acoustic guitar right next to the recording mic and a cello slightly off to the side, on an audiophile headphone you will hear an acoustic guitar right in front of you, a violin that sounds very far away, and a cello slightly off to the side. This sense of a space instruments are playing in and how big it is is referred to as the soundstage and being able to precisely locate where the instruments are playing in the room is referred to as the imaging. If you wish to watch movies with surround sound or game on these headphones, the imaging and soundstage become much more important. Headphones can use binaural audio playback to mimic (or exceed!) surround sound in movies and games while still using a stereo signal. By audiophile headphone standards though, the Sundaras are nothing special in either imaging or soundstage. That is not to say they are bad - they will blow your socks off still if you're coming from mainstream audio but they do not particularly excel in either category - they are simply good enough for the job on both the vertical and horizontal axis, and that will probably be enough for most people. There is one caveat to this, however. You will probably get better imaging performance out of a HiFiMAN headphone at any price point if you feed it with a "dual-mono" source. This is a form of audio reproduction that keeps the left and right channels completely separate - the channels use separate amp circuits and never have any chance to mix by mistake at any point in the chain. If you do not do this, you may experience a "deadzone" of sorts in the centre image, where sound lightly panned less than ~15 degrees in either direction is artificially snapped to the centre channel at 0 degrees. This can subjectively make music sound more coherent in the centre but could be quite disorienting when gaming. The iFi Zen DAC v2 and the FiiO K7 are both dual-mono amps and you need to use the balanced 4.4mm connection on these amps to keep the channels truly separated, which will require a specialised aftermarket cable that you can find right here on Amazon. I said there's nothing else quite like the HiFiMAN Sundara for £300 or less. That's because there is no other headphone on the market that is this close to the complete package with the planar sound signature that doesn't cost more money. If you just want to buy one audiophile headphone and get it over and done with, this is the one to buy. If however you like the planar sound but want a headphone with exceptional soundstage and imaging, not merely adequate and dead-flat bass extension without the rolloff, consider extending your budget to £500 and looking at the HiFiMAN Edition XS.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sound, comfort, quality
*by D***Y on 30 August 2024*

First of I'm no audiophile and my hearing probably isn't brilliant but I can hear the detail of the music with these headphones. I work from home and had been listening to Tidal with a pair of closed back Sony bluetooth noice cancelling headphones or on my speakers. I use my laptop with Tidal and the hip dac. I struggled with I know it's gross but sweaty ears when using the closed back Sonys. I'd read reviews and researched these headphones. In my opinion they have a well balanced sound, not to bass heavy and the detail is fabulous. Lyrics I struggled to understand before I can now make out clearly. I listen to a lot of synth music and I find them great for this type of music. They sit on my head and ears so comfortably. They don't make my ears hot and I can easily wear them all day while I work. In my opinion they are worth every penny and I'm very happy with my purchase. Only negative I can see and it doesn't really affect me is the cable isn't really long and you might struggle if using an amp if your chair isn't very close to it. Otherwise they have a great sound, are comfortable, appear to be well built and my main method of listening to music now.

## Frequently Bought Together

- HIFIMAN SUNDARA Flat Drive Headphones, Black
- HIFIMAN Edition XS Full-Size Over-Ear Open-Back Planar Magnetic Hi-Fi Headphones with Stealth Magnets Design, Adjustable Headband, Detachable Cable for Audiophiles, Home, Studio-Black
- NewFantasia Replacement Audio Cable Compatible with Hifiman Sundara, Arya, Ananda Headphones 3.5mm and 6.35mm to Dual 3.5mm Connector Jack Male Cord 3.1meters/10ft

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