Don't put a HE-560 headband if you plan on using the Audeze Vegan pads later on: they are incompatible.
The HE-560 sound so great with the Vegan pads that I'm actually considering swapping the headband for the old type  (which I was never annoyed by).

Don't put a HE-560 headband if you plan on using the Audeze Vegan pads later on: they are incompatible.
The HE-560 sound so great with the Vegan pads that I'm actually considering swapping the headband for the old type  (which I was never annoyed by).

What do you mean the Audeze Vegan pads aren't compatible with the HE-560 headband?

I was under the impression that the two headband types themselves are incompatible. I sent an email some time ago during pre-production phase and the rep said that you couldn't use the HE-560 style headband with the older models.

Which is a shame, since the comfort is infinitely better with the newer style.

I'm not talking about mounting here. Just the way the headband, and especially the yokes, work with the cups:
- On the older headband, the yokes are rotating on the outside of the cups; No matter how far you stretched the headband (pull the earcups apart), the yokes would never cross the inner edge of the cup, where the pads are.
- The new headband works by pulling the cups from the inside. Unless you have a narrow head (like me), when you stretch the headband to normal head size, the yokes cross the inner edge of the cup and, thus, hit against the Vegan pads (which are bigger than the cups). This put pressure on the temples :/

I hope I can find a way to fit the old headband to the HE-560...

True, it's because the ear pads are too big.

I have not been able to remove the HE-6 cups from their headband as I used a screw driver too big and it stripped the cross pattern!  So its out for me on the HE-6. 

Have you taken off the headband assembly for the HE-6/500, if so what does the hole in the cups look like?  All I see is a plastic washer between the cups and the steel gimbal.  It's probably easier to put the 560 cups on that steel gimbal than the other way around.  the HE-6 cups would need to have the holes (expanded by drilling?) fitted with the same nylon bushing as the 560 cups.

Armaegis, good luck with the headband, I think you can try this one on taobao:

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.118.98Cjmx&id=36402141950&ns=1&abbucket=17#detail

Taobao is a Chinese domestic site like ebay/amazon marketplace (actually it's much better in terms of variety and cheapness), but as far as I know you need to have a Chinese bankcard or alipay account (which requires a Chinese bankcard) to use, it's basically a nono for non-Chinese residents.  Apparently there are resellers (I've never used one) who offer the service of buying listings and sending them overseas for a fee.

credit goes to azncookiecutter  for this:

For buying stuff from Taobao using a reseller: http://www.vendio.com/stores/E-sports-Gaming-equipments/

I don't know cost of cheap shipping from China to Canada. I have done lots of shipments but use regular couriers like DHL/UPS, etc, those are expensive, minimum $30 for a document $40 for lightest package, most of these Chinese vendors use postal and for whatever reason have really cheap rates, you would always want to go with that or else shipping will kill you.  It's something I'll have to research next year.

Armaegis, some things to consider:

1)  You should still contact hifiman and wait for their response, I am also in contact with their customer service and it is...  a bit slow.  But it's $50 for the HE-560 band, I would guess it's similar for your band.  You mentioned your screw heads are stripped, in that case you would need to use a hifiman band as they would just connect your existing gimbal part to a new L-shaped length adjuster (if you look the gimbal is connected with a flathead screw, so you don't need to disconnect your cup from your gimbal).

2)  If you get the Chinese aftermarket headband, just looking at the pictures there is no guarantee that the hole on the gimbal is compatible with the screws on your HE-6 cups.  If you look at the posts they use in the pics, there are not threaded, it looks like the HE-560/400i style where they slide into a hole.  IN which case it is wholely incompatible with the HE-6 unless you are willing to majorly mod your cups and drill holes where the sunken threaded hole is now.

The one good thing about the Chinese aftermarket headband is that the L-shaped metal length adjuster looks about 10-20% thicker than the Hifiman metal, it should not snap.  In fact yours should not have snapped at all, yours must have been defective since the beginning, I'm looking at mine and no amount of regular stress would have caused any sort of fracture in that bend.

Thanks. I'll have to look into that reseller...

You mentioned your screw heads are stripped, in that case you would need to use a hifiman band as they would just connect your existing gimbal part to a new L-shaped length adjuster (if you look the gimbal is connected with a flathead screw, so you don't need to disconnect your cup from your gimbal).

Frak, it's like they've put loktite on everything. That screw isn't budging even with two vice grips.