Eh the Quintet is ok. I had one for awhile but the treble irritated me a bit over time. I think it's still good but maybe overpriced in today's market. Simgots offerings are lower priced and do much the same thing imo.Indeed, very nice to hear about the Quintet again, I have not tried it yet smh, but this review rekindled that year-old wish.
Looking forward to more impressions. Any chance you can show the cable that they come with?The Elysian Pilgrim is a hybrid which contains 1 x Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) DD and 3 x Sonion BAs.
Do take note this is the original Pilgrim, not the Noir Pilgrim version, which is more basshead (with some loss in resolution). The Noir variant is also pricier but comes with some kilobuck cable in the packaging.
So this OG Pilgrim is very light-weight and comfortable, shells are fashioned from stainless steel.
The OG Pilgrim has a U-shaped tonality, and is very clean sounding. Superb technicalities, expansive stage and solid layering. Fast, punchy and tight bass with a transparent midrange and resolving treble. Nimble transients with smooth upper mids.
8 kHz is a coupler artefact peak.
There's a whiff of BA timbre but not the biggest offender in this department. It also uses a Pentacon cable connector, which does limit aftermarket cable pairing.
Otherwise, the Pilgrim has a thicker lower midrange than the measurebator's gold-standard Moondrop Variations (Pilgrim doesn't sound so anemic there), with less upper mids glare than the Variations. The Pilgrim also has better staging and micro-details than the Variations.
This is a solid IEM from OOTB listening. Will do more A/B testing and burn-in and report back.
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