TONALITY: 8.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 9/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 ISN audio is a cable and IEM company from China, owned by Penon which has been doing IEMs and cable under its own name for more or less 5 years. I’ve discover ISN IEMs 2 years ago with the H30 that is a extremely competitive 1DD+2BA (sonion+knowles) hybrid earphones and positively surprise me at the time since it doesn’t follow typical V, U or harman balanced tonality and...

TONALITY: 9/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 IMAGING: 8/10 MUSICALITY: 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 10/10 SOUND VALUE: 9/10 Intro Hisenior is an experienced IEM maker from China that specialize in Custom In-ear and UIEM for musician, stage monitoring and audiophile. This company has about 10 years of experience and is well known among musicians but a bit more obscure for headfier and audiophile. This will most likely change in 2024 because they plan to diversify even more their sound signature offering with their...

TONALITY: 8.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8/10 INTRO Penon doesn't need lengthy introduction, it’s among the first hifi chinese audio product distributor and it produces IEMs for years too, under Penon and ISN brands. This isn’t an amateur DIY IEM maker like NiceHCK or **** and other Ali express OEM companies, it’s a passionate and experienced IEM and cable maker with incredible contacts and manufacturing...

TONALITY: 7/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 7/10 IMAGING: 8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 6.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 7/10 SOUND VALUE: 8/10 INTRO Oriveti is a Chinese earphones company founded in 2015. I've review and adore their flagship balanced basshead IEM call OH700VB. Today I will review their entry level IEM call OD100. Priced only 70$, the OD100 is a single dynamic driver IEM promising high sound value and using a 9.2mm DLC (diamond-like-coated) dynamic driver. Let see in this review if this is an IEM that...

TONALITY: 8.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 9.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 INTRO Soundrhyme is a chinese audio company from Xiamen, China, that begin working as OEM maker in 2017 then founded Soundrhyme official in 2019. Like alot of other chinese company working as OEM in audio, they earn experience working for other and then go on their own with the experience they earn. Unlike alot of chifi companies that get unnoticed, SR already has a solid...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 IMAGING: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 7.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.5/10 (higher is the price, lower is sound benefit return) INTRO Hifiman is a well known audio company from China that specialize in planar headphones and make a wide range of other products including DAP, DAC-AMPs, IEMs, Dynamic and even electrostatic headphones. It's been a long time since I've been a fan of their headphones. My first real crush began with the competitively...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES 9.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 7.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 10/10 INTRO BGVP is an IEM company based in China, they were established in 2015 and has launched a wide amount of IEM since then, always earning more audio engineering experience. They seem to focus on hybrid and tribrid IEM and have a ''high sound value'' approach. In the past, IEM like DM7 earn good praise. The last IEM i've tested from them is the BGVP DM9 which is among most...

TONALITY: 8.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9/10 TIMBRE: 8.8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 9/10 INTRO Not much to say about Night Oblivion company, it's a very mysteriou ''One-Man'' high end IEM maker from China. The Butastur is a special project lead by tuning collaborator American Spirit which have a vision to offer TOTL IEM at affordable price for audiophiloe that don't earn 1M a year. This is something I tremondesly respect and have big resonance with my personal...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNCALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.8/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.2/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.5/10 INTRO Oriveti is an IEM company from Hong Kong that specialize in hybrid, multi-BA and single dynamic drivers earphones since 2015. Their IEMs get good feedback on Headfi and it seem they offer a diversify type of musicality, yet never forget the bass should in the mix. Today I will review their latest hybrid flagship, the OH700VB. Priced 699$, the OH700VB is a 1DD+6...

TONALITY: 8.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.8/10 TIMBRE: 8.2/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8/10 IMAGING: 9/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 Intro SuperTFZ is another IEM branch of TFZ company. I’m not sure to understand the reason of this side branding. From company description, it’s aiming stage musician and monitoring IEM, but the Force1 I’ve review is a basshead V shape which I don’t find appropriate for this purpose. One thing sure, TFZ is a IEM company from China that specialize in dynamic driver technology...

TONALITY: 7/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 7/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.2/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 6.5/10 INTRO Sivga is a well know audio company from China, which specialize in Headphones using dynamic and planar driver. Lately they begin to release earphones as well, like the hybrid 1DD+1BA SW001. Today I will review their first planar IEM call Nightingale. Priced 280$, the Nightingale use an ''home made'' 14.5mm planar driver with ultra-thin diaphragm that promise crisp and immersive sound. Let see in...

TONALITY: 7.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9.2/10 TIMBRE: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 IMAGIN: 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.8/10 INTRO 2023 is the Simgot return year and let say the praise is everywhere apart perhaps from affiliated reviewers with personal interest in promoting different audio products they are closely connected too. This undoubtable success begin with the EA500, then go next level in sound value with EW200, then go warmer a bit moe underwhelming technical performance wise with EM6L…. Then all this experience...

TONALITY: 7.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 7.5/10 TIMBRE: 8.2/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 IMAGING: 7/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 7/10 INTRO Kinera don't need lenghty presentation, it's an IEM company from China that has been around for about 10 years. They specialize in hybrid IEM of all price range but what demark them for other IEM company is the great care to IEM design which are hand painted and very artsy. Today I will review the Kinera Freya 2.0 which is suppose to be an upgrade in term of tonal balance compared to older Freya...

TONALITY: 9.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 INTRO Letshuoer don’t need a lenghty presentation, this China based earphones company has been around for near 10 years now. We can say their best seller and most praised IEM is the S12 planar IEM that still is very popular nowadays even with growing planar IEM offering. Today it’s the following of S12 legacy that I will review, which is the new S15 planar. The S15 is priced 330$ and use thid...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 10/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 Penon don’t need lenghty introduction, they are the oldest and more experienced ‘’chifi’’ seller, but not only since they even sale western brand like IMR Acoustic. Let just say Penon are different and truly passionate about audio product to the point of tuning and manufacturing their own IEMs under Penon and ISN companies. Ive review tremendous amount of their IEMs, loving about 90% of them. Musicality...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 7.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 INTRO Kefine is a new earphones company from China that act as a budget minded IEM maker wanting to push sound value bundaries for the benefit of consumers. Today I will review their very first IEM release call: Kefine Klanar. The Klanar is priced 120$ and use a 14.5mm planar driver with a N55 magnet. Let see in this review if the Klanar can join the podium of good affordable planar IEMs which begin...

TONALITY: 6.5/10 TECHNICALTIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 7/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 6.5/10 TANCHJIM is an experienced IEM compny from China, similar to Moondrop due to their obsession with Harman target. In fact, it has been founded by an audio engineer that left Moondrop. This company is mostly known and respected for one IEM: the Tanchjim Oxygen, which i've never try. Today I will review my third Tanchjim IEM, the Kara. Priced 180$, the Kara is an hybrid using 1DD+4BAs drivers and promising...

TONALITY: 8.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 8/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 YanYin is a rather new audio company from China, I think it's been around for about 3 years. They get on the audiophile map with hybrid IEM like the Alladin and first Canon or tribrid like the Moonlight. Today I will review their latest offering, the Canon2, which is the the follow up of first Canon. Like the first version, it's an hybrid using 1 biological dynamic driver and 4 (unstated) balanced...

TONALITY: 9.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9.2/10 TIMBRE: 9.6/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 9.8/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 INTRO Hifiman don't need a lenghty introduction. It's an audio company founded in 2005 by Fang Bian, then named Hifiman in 2007. Their first planar headphones was the HE5 launched in 2009, then they evolve alot and create a wide variety of headphones, yet they seem to favor planar open back above dynamic driver or closed back headphones. But Hifiman is a touch everything, and my personal story begin with their DAP in...

TONALITY: 9/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 8/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 9/10 INTRO BQEYZ is an audio company from China that have about 10 years of audio engineering experience. They've release mostly hybrid IEM from ultra budget one like KB100 to tribrid like Spring2 and lately they've begin to explore bone conduction hybrid with the Winter. Today I will review the BQEYZ Wind which is their second attempt at bone conduction hybrid. The WInd use a 10mm LCP dynamic driver and a 10mm...