My ASX have arrived this monday. This will be only a sort of short impression post, but I hope I can follow up with a more thorough one. Before I go into details. My main reason for "upgrading" was to get an in-ear with a more fitting sound signature. I have the AS10 and they are bit to much on...

The ASX arrived in my country. So far shipping went much faster than I expected. Hopefully customs won't take too long. As much as I am excited regarding these, I also fear them to some extend. All those opposing views. Nevertheless I can't wait to finally have them. Also it kind of looks like...

Why are the reviews so polarising? Is there a massive problem with the qc? So far we either had a "it is their best iem" and "stay away, it is horrible". Nothing in between. That does not feel normal.

Now I am thinking of getting some foam tips too. I would like to go with Inairs, mostly cause I can get them rather quickly and they are not super expensive. Also I had them before and I liked them. They have a size that fits the ZSX and a size that does fit the ATE and ZS10 for example. They...

I decided to not wait for the 11.11 sale and ordered the ASX. Shipping alone will take a month already. Adding two weeks to that? Nah... I picked the silver colour, cause of the somewhat clear case. Being able to see a bit of the internals is pretty nice. Now I will probably need to improve on...

From what I read so far, I kind of want to have the ASX now. It sounds like it could be a worthy upgrade for me. Also I am getting more and more curios and just need to know how these really sound. They already list the sale price, but I am not sure if I can wait that long, lol. Can the shown...

Lacks treble? I hoped it would be a brighter IEM than the AS10. Now I fear that it could be even darker.

Oh yeah, the ASX looks like a beast! That is also the one I am interested in. I mixed that up with the ASF, heh. I have the gold/silver cable. Which did not make a difference from what I can tell, though I did not compare it thoroughly.

When can we expect some first impressions of the ASF? I am really curios regarding these and I want to upgrade. Just thinking about their high ba-driver count, haha. I know that more drivers do not automatically produce a better sound. Right now I am using the AS10, which I acquired over a year...

  I know that that pulseaudio is already used in 12.10. Maybe changing the overall quality of playback does help.   You can try to edit this file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf   There is a setting called: resample-method   You need to uncomment it, by removing the semicolon at the beginning...

I mainly use linux (Kubuntu 14.04 & 15.04) and never experienced any real problems. It is connected via usb. Do you use usb too? There are very rare cases where I had distortion, regardless of os. Assumedly when the dac does not get the data in a format as expected. Like it has not adjusted to...

  I do not know how an odac does sound. So I can't comment on the tonal differences there can be. I guess it should be more realistic (in airyness e.g.) and more neutral overall. Some are saying that an audio-gd device prefers to be run in balanced mode, to get the full performance. But even...

Okay, that's not what I wanted to hear. I mean it's not completly positive, haha. So now I know in some ways it will be a pure shot in the blue. The record player I could use is some old and rather cheap one by technics. The most budget player they ever made actually. Perhaps it is not good...

Hey,   As far as I remember a vinyl is known for getting a better treatment, even in the metal world. Can I asume that a vinyl will always have the better mix (e.g. less compression), compared to the cd? A friend says that there are also a lot of bad examples. Particularly I'am interested...

It really does sound different and better to some extent.  Also I'am thankfull for the included backup firmware chip, otherwise I didn't know how to change between the firmware under linux.^^ To be honest, I don't like change that much and making a decision is not easy for me. But I will most...