Recent content by sapporo444

I really like the looks of the enginEar L300; they look retro futuristic!

The sooner you stop caring about positional variance, the better! If you push them into your ears, of course the lower frequencies will get louder. So, in my opinion, just put them in your ears without so much thought and stop caring so much about if they sound a little bit different than...

a fellow argie.

Nice review, thanks! I feel like Aful pays reviewers to speak more favorably about their stuff; after trying the MagicOne, they weren't anything close to what the reviewers had described. I agree that the Fiio FF3 (I only tried the S version) is special and I personally think it's one of the...

They look like IEMs, interesting design. I wonder if the outer shells block out noise better than the common ones.

I ran out of foams (😭), so I've been using my BGVP DX7 without them while Fiio finally decides to fix my Q15, so I can send it all in a single parcel. Anyway, I really, really like them without foams - I feel like the imaging is pretty good; the bass (still punchy to me) and soundstage take a...

I sent it to the AliExpress seller, who forwarded it to FiiO on my behalf. I still haven't received it back or gotten any updates. I asked the seller about it, but he hasn’t really responded. I’ll wait a couple more days. I'm guessing that Trump's tariffs are affecting their business.

Mix the factory solder with a solder alloy with lower melting temperatures. Maybe the solder applied at the factory has a lesser amount of lead in it (if any), so it has a higher melting temperature than your tin. Be careful leaving the soldering iron tip for longer than seconds, you could melt...

My bad — I meant SBS, Serratus Black Sand. My brain went full Spanglish mode for a second.

Realistically, how much better could earbuds get? I think they are pretty much solved, and we are just picking different sound flavors. Anyway, I've decided on the TGXEAR SSB (I contacted Mr. Jim via email) and Rikubuds Caster 3. I'm just waiting for my Fiio Q15 to arrive, otherwise I'd have to...

My Q15 finally got freed from custom! The Chinese Fedex lady had said that if it wasn't dealt with in 5 days, they would send my parcel back (and I would have wasted $80 and about $50 to get it back) so that's why I was kind of impatient about it. Anyway, I fully recommend BrightAudio Store...

Nah, shipping from China costs pennies, but TO China is expensive as hell. The Aliexpress seller is super responsive compared to Fiio customer support, which made me feel safer shipping it to him and then for him to deal with Fiio in their language. Besides, Fiio wanted to me declare the parcel...

No, they told me I could ship it to them (FIIO), but it took them like a week to reply. Then, I sent another question which took about two weeks after pestering them on Facebook and on their own forums and email; by then, I had already shipped the device. The delay didn't make me feel safe...

Which one is the SSBX?

No, but what he did is straight up abusive. I asked, not once, but twice, if he could help me with this and he said, "yeah! just ship it to us and we'll even pay to ship it back to you!". I really liked the device, so I spent $80 dollars to ship it to him ($320 + $45 (shipping to Argentina) +...