It doesn't matter that you want to defend them, KZ's behavior will be their downfall, period.

That's way too much, 170€ for a repainted dendroaspis, nope. Those shells are super small so they don't seal anything and the dendroapis is ok but not really worth its price tbh, too much mids imo.

Phenomenal, maybe for someone I'm sure, but not for me, no. As I get older I tend to prefer more bass than I used to oddly, but I'd rather use something like a TO600 that is much flatter than the v-shaped X6, but not "bass deficient" like many earbuds can be. I think I need to try the Smabat...

So without surprise, the yincrow X6 is a decent v-shaped earbud for 10$ Has probably been said about 1000 times by now but just adding my 2 cents lol Bass is quite textured and well done but it's too much for me, I'll keep it though just for the occasional giggle, while the 60$ smabat m3 pro...

The openheart black&brown ones are nice imho, not sticky, not tangly etc. Edit: apparently they only do a mic version now, but this should be more or less the same and cheaper : https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255800605205855.html

Toneking to150 is not really super budget at 40€ but doesn't break the bank and is super polite without being "dark", still in stock. The stock cable is not great though

You're truly the MVP now for going that far and reporting, nice. I've only been able to tell apart balanced and unbalanced so far, but that's because the circuitry itself differs on the amp end. And some crappy cable with mic because they lower the volume. I still have not to this day heard...

Your english is fine, and yes the rw-1000 sounds extremely dry, almost lifeless in comparison. But because there's not much bass the treble stands out a lot more and gives the impression to reveal more detail, which is actually an illusion I think (would have to see graphs to validate my...

A graph itself is a linear presentation of a single frequency moving over time, but what happens when multiple notes are played at the same time? Doesn't represent that at all so it's a small part of the picture

Yincrow Calf is here, I wouldn't say it really has less treble than the RW-1000, maybe very slightly more polite but that's about it. It has a lot more bass however, which brings back the overall presentation to a much fuller level. It's not bloated, vague bass either like the Smabat gold can...

Please step back and listen to great music instead of obsessing with gear, it gives me anxiety.

If anyone here wants to take a step back from gear and appreciate pure genius I'd highly suggest listening to this track. Any dac, cable and earphone that's transparent enough without weird timbre will do :)

That looks indeed like something worth looking into, what are theeez?

Indeed. But being labelled as hearing deficient or "too cheap to tell LOL" for pointing out that sighted comparisons are inherently flawed due to how our brain works is not the best show either. Again I've never said nice gear isn't worth it, we all know the improvements are not linear to the...