Alright, here I am again, with my second pair of Orion losing sound on one side (Right side). The issue is with the MMCX female socket, as I tried using my P1 cable to no avail.
Holding the MMCX cable and pushing it inwards made the sound comes back, but as soon as I let it loose the sound is gone. So it is definitely a loose connection caused by the loose MMCX socket.
If anyone remembers, I complained about the wiggling female socket about a month ago, and was given a new pair by CA distributor here in SG. The new pair still has the wiggling socket, but I had to think that it is the norm because I actually opened two brand new pairs in the shop during the exchange and both have varying degree of wiggling.
So now I have owned two pairs of Orion, both dead after a month. I have never pulled the cable harshly, wrap and keep them in the leather case nicely usually, etc. Suffice to say, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the build quality. Ironically, build quality was one of the MAIN reasons that convinced me to splurge for these.
@KB if you are looking at this, we talked through PM before and I gave CA the benefit of doubt regarding the issue. But now I am not so sure anymore. I may be the unlucky one, but almost all my IEMs lasted at least two years prior to this (well except the garbage Hifiman RE-600, and even that lasted two months!), so this being my most expensive IEMs to date and failing twice in a short period of time, I am very very upset.
Here's a link to the video showing the weak point I mentioned, for anyone interested in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pt5an8w2lr9jalj/Video%2021-5-16%2C%203%2057%2029%20PM.mov?dl=0
