When I was at the Fall Tokyo headphone festival I had a chance to demo the TH-FN4 NAMI and was really smitten with the unique sound, very accurate, great imaging, very open, tight lows and delicate high end. We got into dialog with Olasonic and are very pleased to carry them in the USA. You can read more about them and see some photos here.
 
Olasonic TH-FN4
 
We hope to have more impressions and a short video up soon.
 
Ken

Ken,
Thanks for carrying them in the States, and at a very reasonable cost, for a boutique earphone anyway.
These are on my to buy list as soon as I have some funds to play with.

I just got this pair of jewels, which revives the dynamics of my music again. I have been enjoying Nami for 5 hours non stop and now feeling an urge to compare it with my Fitear 334. The initial impression did wow me, but still I will hold my urge and give it more time to run in.

tindersticks said:

I just got this pair of jewels, which revives the dynamics of my music again.

I have been enjoying Nami for 5 hours non stop and now feeling an urge to compare it with my Fitear 334. The initial impression did wow me, but still I will hold my urge and give it more time to run in.

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Interesting, I tried the ocharaku SUI and out of 20 other iems I tried at the meet only the fitear had the same musicality and space! 
 
Any KURO/SUI vs NAMI impressions on this forum yet? 

tindersticks said:

I just got this pair of jewels, which revives the dynamics of my music again.

I have been enjoying Nami for 5 hours non stop and now feeling an urge to compare it with my Fitear 334. The initial impression did wow me, but still I will hold my urge and give it more time to run in.

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Welcome to Nami world I use the Nami about 2month, and It sounds very good. When I heard first 50hours, it sounded light a little, but now I realize It's a dynamic driver IEM. The bass is awesome. 

I've had mine for a few days now, and have been giving them some short listens along with break-in with burn-in tracks on repeat for a few overnight sessions to speed up the burn-in process.
 
I have not heard any of the other iems from this designer either, so I won't be able to make those comparisons either, but I am curious about them as well.  
 
There were 4 more paragraphs to this that I was adding when Windows decided I needed an update- wonder who the imho brainless programmer(s) are who devided that this would be allowed while a person was actually typing on his laptop..   argh - Plus, I suck a tyoing so it is really double-annoying that my brilliant prose is now lost forever 
 
Anyway, the short version is that these are very open, have extremely good upper mids and highs, but are a bit more forward and centered on that part of the range than I normally prefer, but they are good enough that they are still in my ears in spite of that.  I wonder if the bigger sibling is a bit richer sounding.  These definitely favor acoustic instruments, good recordings and a warmer sounding source.....
 
 
I've got about 30 hours on these, most of it with a burn-in "cd" on repeat overnight without  them being in my ears.  I am using large Comply Tx200s and playing them from a Cowon X7, Hifiman901 and Sonos zone player via Mytek DAC so far....

For Comply tips, i would suggest TS200 or T200, not TX series as TXs have wax guard in the hole that could mess up the mids and highs.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I didn;t have any around without the wax guard (I have some 500s, but they are probably too big.  I thought it would be easy to de-guard the Complys -- it took some time to dig it out piece by piece with tweezers, a small scredriver, and a wooden match stick....   a quick listen suggests they sound better-- now i am wondering if I houdl try to track down some Kaedes.  any thoughts?

good luck finding a pair. 200 were made in total. 

daniel_hokkaido said:

  good luck finding a pair. 200 were made in total. 

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I've seen some in the for sale forums. not as difficult as you would think. 

Got these in just today... kinda surprised how few comments here. I guess more people spring for the KAEDE? Really loving the NAMIs so far, haven't left my ears in the 5 hours since I opened them. My cup of tea, I guess

ALO warehouse deals has a pair of these for $359 - nice price and free shipping. Just bought K3003's so I am out of the market - lol.
 
http://warehousedeals.aloaudio.com/headphones/olasonic-nami-th-f4n

Just got one of these, and seriously, they're probably the first headphone of any kind where I can actually feel that it is genuinely out of my head. Might it have something to do with how far the drivers stick out of your ear canal?

A question guys as I am bit confused with many ocharaku threads here in headfi.
Are the olasonic version the same with the Nami? Or are there other version of Nami (non olasonic)??

Well I hope you guys know what I mean

aradea said:

A question guys as I am bit confused with many ocharaku threads here in headfi.
Are the olasonic version the same with the Nami? Or are there other version of Nami (non olasonic)??

Well I hope you guys know what I mean

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Olasonic tuned the Flat 4 IEM named Naim - Ocharaku did not tune the signature
 
Very good IEM, underated IMO