I'm rather tempted... based on how amazingly good the MG800 is! But I'm in sell stuff / funds recovery mode for a good while. The MG800 is so good I'm willing to walk away from the hobby for an extended spell, and just enjoy my music through a masterful IEM. I would hope the Discovery is on the...

Tonedeaf.... you feel about that ME600 exactly as I do the MG800 single DD IEM. I'm literally thankful they made it (as you said in your review)! Give the single DD a try too sometime. It's a TOTAL gem, and I can't find a single flaw sonically. I may have to add the ME600 as a 'lil bro to the 800!

Cool boutique IEM!! Someone will get a great deal here! GLWS.

Definitely a lot of turnover, and expensive. Thankfully I've wound up with an IEM I'm content with. The biggest thing I learned through that process was that I value full, rich midrange far more than I ever would have predicted. It was almost always the mids that kept killing most of those IEMs...

Great thread! I really like the concept behind it. I've gone through a whirlwind of buying/ selling over the past 2+ years, and it has been pretty fruitless, never finding an IEM which seems to 'have it all'... and I probably over-extended a bit by going through all the following ones... These...

Really want a pair of the Hekili. PM if you have a set you're wanting to move on from. Thanks in advance.

Hell yes!! So good...

Ah gotcha... didn't mean to imply you didn't like it. Sorry 'bout that! I guess I experienced what you described, from the beginning of owning it... it just left me a bit cold in the company of a less expensive IEM that I liked more.

I agree w/ you on Svanar... I had it for a brief second, and didn't really enjoy it very much. Like the Himalaya, I'd take the Shanling MG800 over the Svanar in a heartbeat....

Man, you've got me highly curious to try this out.... I currently have the Shanling MG800, and it is so good as another single DD that I've stopped trying out anything else. The Himalaya is your top of the heap?? That really says something with the E12 there in the middle of the list...

How long until the firmware update which allows Tidal streaming?

Looks great! There was no mention of how open or not the shell is, but in the images it sure looks to have a good bit of open area. Wonder if it is a semi-open design...

Look into the Shanling MG800 (single 11mm custom dynamic driver by Shanling)... It has really deep, punchy bass which doesn't cloud the mids at all. Lows are a bit more sub-bass focused which is why. The rest of the range is wonderful, very lifelike in tonality, full rich midrange with excellent...

Is there any midrange bite w/ this model?? That's a pretty high mids lift from like 1.5K to 4.5K...

I used them for several weeks, and I didn't see one scratch at all. It's some super hard grade of stainless steel, so I think it's about as resistant to micro scratches as any metal bodied IEM can be.