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corentin reacted to Sajid Amit's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.A quick photoshoot of IEMs accompanying me on my travels.
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corentin reacted to Rockwell75's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.I preferred Novus to the iteration of Raven I heard in NYC. Novus is also like $2k more expensive, so there's that.
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corentin reacted to PinkyPowers's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.What do you think about Raven? I saw your fun one-liner about it many pages back, "Animals as leaders" lol. But from the perspective I'm...
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corentin replied to the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome..Thank you for your take, I'm definitely going the Raven route - unless the Novus turns out like an even better Raven, which given the...
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corentin reacted to MatW's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.I own the HE1000 SE, not the Stealth version. The SE is pretty balanced, reference tuned, but with a noticeable treble presence and...
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corentin reacted to Tristy's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.Out of those I’d definitely choose Raven (although I haven’t heard Fei Wan, I’d imagine the treble energy could get a bit much for metal...
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corentin reacted to hAbIrAbI's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.I haven't heard the Raven but of the rest I personally would choose the Fei Wan. But I prefer more reference sound IEMS. Trifecta would...
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corentin reacted to YakAttack99's post in the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome. with Like.If i compare my KR5 and trifecta; the drums have more volume and sound more realistic on the trifecta. I think the KR5 is more very...
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corentin replied to the thread The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome..Interesting discussions around "fun" sounding TOTL iems; between Fei Wan, Trifecta, Xe6 and Ravens for metal music only, what would you...
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corentin reacted to javahut's post in the thread Astell&Kern NOVUS IEM collab with Empire Ears with Like.Not a review, but here's a link to Twister6's overall impressions of some IEMs at Canjam '24. EE and Novus are about halfway down the...
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corentin reacted to vonBaron's post in the thread Final Audio D8000 Planar Magnetic Headphone with Like.I think D8K Pro LE with Hugo2 will be great for metal. Utopia 2022 is similar in term of technicalities.
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corentin reacted to bagwell359's post in the thread Final Audio D8000 Planar Magnetic Headphone with Like.If you are sensitive to treble over 10k but want clean and very good bass - a DCA E2 used could be picked up at a lower price. The...
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corentin reacted to OctavianH's post in the thread Final Audio D8000 Planar Magnetic Headphone with Like.D8000 Pro is excellent on metal. But in my view you need to pair it with a good SET tube amp. It scales it to a different level. PS...
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corentin reacted to Vruksha's post in the thread IEM for metal music and hard rock - ultimate solution with Like.I’d also add in Customart F7U in there. It’s fun sortta W shaped iem, quite punchy for an all BA set, Treble is smoother but airy and...
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corentin replied to the thread Astell&Kern Launches New R-2R DAP and IEMs at High End Munich 2023.Anyone got the opportunity to compare the hugo2 + smartphone versus the SE300? I can't seem to make up my mind between the two...