Recent content by counterclockwise

First (?) proper review of the Akoustyx S-6 (after what, 5+ months?):

Yeah I was really surprised to see a bullet style planar too. That plus supposedly neutral tuning got my attention. I posted a bit about them in the discovery thread when I first got them. They've been my dailies for the past 2+ weeks now. They're fast, snappy, punchy, and clean. And...

Some more info trickled in about the Akoustyx S6. Drivers are reportedly 6.1mm (source: https://www.soundstageglobal.com/index.php/shows-events/canjam-socal-2022-irvine-usa/1029-cjsc-2022-earphones). Super* Review has a squiglink entry...

There's the Akoustyx S6 as well. Bullet-style reference-neutral planar. I easily prefer them over the S12. (Haven't heard any of the other recent planars to compare.)

Fit: Pretty comfy actually, once you figure them out. Experimenting some more today I think I was getting the fit wrong initially. Being used to etys I was going for a moderately deep fit at first, which is totally doable, but I realised that cannot be the intended fit. See, they come with...

Received these today: Akoustyx S6, studio reference tuned planar magnetic IEM. Lack of info aside from the company's own page had me a little concerned, but on first impression they seem pretty good. Diameter of the housing is pretty much identical to bullet-style Etymotics (7mm). Driver must...

Going by the story on their blog they did develop their own driver, yes. Early planar iems were chonkers and the recent ones all seem to be over 13mm, so anything below 7mm would seem like an outlier. Maybe the deep fit and/or neutral tuning allows for a smaller driver? Or maybe planars might...

lol, my mains are er4sr so consider me unfazed. ^^ what I was getting at is that these shells look as slim as etys (which are about 7mm across), whereas the smallest planar driver I'm aware of (P1) has a diameter of 10mm. they either cut that in half or applied some non-euclidean engineering...

Apparently Akoustyx released a reference-tuned planar iem, in ety bullet form factor: https://akoustyx.com/products/s6 (listed in the Bullet/Cable-Down IEM Database thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-bullet-cable-down-iem-database-140-update.964041) I've been hoping for a...

Great impressions. I hesitated to call them fun cause that word is so often used to describe exaggerated tunings, but it's pretty spot-on really. Shimmering, too. The shape kinda seems to suggest that, I guess, but I'm not getting that far either. For me the flat side of (the blue part of) the...

There's a thread on the u556 and u554 here. I have the u554 and it's excellent.

Everything in the box, for starters (got the set with the "Ety grade triple flanges" included). And original Ety triple flanges, and some softer third party triple flanges. The DIY double flanges still work best for me though, and after some breaking in and trial & error I'm getting a good...

Had a few hours with the u554 now. Some impressions. - Overall they sound pretty excellent. Precise, neutral, transparent. The diffuse field tuning has a certain openness and directness that I always miss in coloured transducers. If I understood correctly, Yu9's goal in developing the u554 was...

look who made it out of Shanghai eventually ^_____^ (can now confirm that the huo niu store on aliexpress ships from an address in Shanghai)

The tracking function on the AE site generally doesn't tell you much. Any of the following sites will give a lot more info: www.chinapost-track.com www.17track.net www.4tracking.net Most recent status update for mine is that it's being dispatched from the outward office of exchange in Shanghai...