I actually do enjoy the ling long a lot now that I have a good cable on it!

I use a QKZ Q1 Max for all my IEMs. Yes there's a difference but it also highly depends on source (high vs low impedance) I've heard silver and copper, those are impossible to tell the difference if the gauge is similar. I made a balanced cable for my Hifiman Deva Pro using the same silver wire...

Yes. Castor silver is not as harsh but I wouldn't call castor black harsh either. That's reserved for the pianist ;)

Try it! Two flavors of one cake won't hurt when it's this cheap. They're different animals but the bass is hugely addictive... Maybe Krila or Castor silver. Probably Castor silver.

Krila is fine, pianist just got messed up somewhere Yes that's because its the return of the ZS10 Pro design... Listening on a better source made it worse. The only more tolerable way to listen to it is literally off a high impedance output. Not a good sign. It isn't just subjectively poor...

You would not. The Pianist is beyond sibilant. I've not heard anything this sibilant in a while! My ears was in actual pain after a while And others reported the pianist is similarly sibilant.

Just enough, nice response. May be a tad much for some people with all switches up but no big deal just turn off the first two switches Yup they're all good exceeeept the pianist. that is exceptionally poor

It definitely is a basshead IEM Especially off a phone output/BT adaptor not off a dongle. Try switch 1 and 2 on and 3, 4 off if you want it that way

Modded my linglong to mmcx pigtails since I have a modular MMCX cable i bought a while back by accident Result? It's actually a very nice sounding IEM

To each his own but Krila definitely doesn't sound terrible. If you are the kind who really likes treble then yes but its not because its lacking treble

IMO if these sound "clearly cheap" the Zero/Khan has even worse drivers, by quite a significant amount. There's a reason I got rid of my Khan. And they were 4x the price!

Different animal. But IMO having owned the original chu, it was very "low quality" sounding Chu 2 I feel isn't better in the dept although frequency response improved but it's still the same burger

PR2 V2 MUST BE USED with foam tips. No two ways about it. Castor won't reach PR2 details but it isn't far off. PR2 honestly sounds better properly driven from low impedance outputs. Don't need that much power on mine! Very dead sounding off high impedance. It's just what PR2 should have been...

Huge fan of the rumble. Out of the box it was DDUU, perfectly fine. I don't hear any sharpness from it that I do from the pianist Using TRN T tips, stock foam should be even lower treble, I think the treble from castor is fine, pianist isn't fine.

Both Castor Black and Silver are really nice. the Pianist? Terrible. My ears hurt instantly the moment I played a song. Just to be sure, I played a challenging song and i tapped out. I'm not sure what's bad about it but its ridiculously sharp and just to be sure, I put on my PR2 with foam tips...