Been a while since the last time I act as "a kid in candy store" again with IEM purchase (last time was with Radon6). Alter Ego truly define how to become "master" in detail information, but with such beautiful, organic and silky smooth tuning, with engaging and punchy notes. My favourite is...

Agree with your impression. Beautiful Shedua btw!

Only beta22 3-channel, but that's already a bit while ago.

Sometimes I wish I can't differentiate DAC sound too, literally will save me a lot of money more than any switcher. ----- Personally, many DAC under $500, especially the chifi DAC that brag about measurement a lot, may sound similar to each other (still not identical though). While in realm of...

For the price Aune S17 is hard to beat. I also quite like the synergy Heddphone Two with Cayin HA-2A.

Pretty much I totally agree with this statement. The sound differences between high end DACs are huge, even in sound character. For entry level market, many chi-fi DACs definitely sound similar one to each other, and may started to create opinion like "all dac sound similar, not worth the upgrade"

wooo, can't wait for your impression vs Cayin 300B!

In term of detail and soundstage, susvara take the lead. However susvara is too soft sounding for me. All percussion instrument seems "weak, not exciting enough. Very capable headphone, but nor for me.

Not overkill, but you can always "do better" if you want to (buy music files and use proper music software like audirvana/roon) Personally, there is always a special synergy between TT2 and all version of Abyss Diana. Sublime combination!

do you get annoy from sibilance from all song or only certain song? If only from certain song, can you let us know which one is it? Elite is not dark sounding headphone, but so far it's the most butter smooth headphone for me (in TOTL realm).

Few things that i truly impressed with Alter Ego: Vocal, Coherency, Soundstage and Puncy Bass. Still curious how loud the leak though, I think should be less than Radon 6 / Turii Ti, but that's my only assumption.

Just want to add that, I'm a happy owner of Caldera Open with DSDAC Deluxe (and tube amp in between). In term of sound Caldera Closed has some similarities with Caldera Open, even more than any other closed back ZMF. If you truly like Bokeh sound signature, I think the "normal path" to upgrade...

More or less it's seal like VE EXT. Better isolation than other IEM like Fir Radon 6 or Softears Turii Ti.

Personally Crimson render Midrange texture and the last micro detail on Treble more complete than Titan. However Titan will punch more, especially in sub bass area, very solid on that area. Treble still sparkly enough, not too dark by any means. Titan is more fun, but Crimson closer to reference...

What do you think about Alter Ego vs VE-X?

This just by memory, but I think mid-sub bass roughly around Susvara/D8000 Pro in term of quantity.

You can say shooting ZMF headphones is my passion lol (too bad now we no longer have gallery feature in Profile page, I used to post them all there)

Tried Immanis at Canjam for several times (to make sure my ears don't deceive me lol). Also talked to some people there about their Immanis impression, and so far I think the impression is consistent. For me Immanis is "super" transparent, clean sounding headphone, with extremely vivid imaging...

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From Canjam Singapore last week: I definitely like Cayin HA-2A more than IHA-8 for any type of Caldera (and Bokeh Open)

Set aside being extremely Wow-ed by Immanis, there are several items that really attract me as well: 1.Melodic Artification Alter Ego Highly engaging and musical pair of iem, combine with great treble detail, full body and sweet vocal, with punchy deep bass character. The soundstage width is...

To sum up in one sentence: Insane sound quality! Could be the most clean and transparent sounding headphone I ever heard (and I heard basically all TOTL out there). Even better thing, Immanis provide the fullest body notes compared to other Raal products (with smoother treble as well).

I rarely seen a Resin Caldera like this, belong to a member here (I don't think he online daily here though). edit: Actually he posted it before me! haha

I used to run TT2 directly to Caldera + Elite. Definitely able to drive these headphone well, especially for this price and size, simply hard to beat.

I never felt Heddphone Two provide small soundstage. It's quite airy and wide actually. Yeah not as "open" sounding as Hifiman HE1000 series, but that one is specialist for airy character. Something like Audeze MM500 is at small soundstage type of sound. Hedd Two is quite transparent to set up...