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ItsFit Lab popped up within these past two years, I believe (it's highly probable they were around before this, but I don't know their origins). They're in Hanoi? There was some kind of hoopla regarding their using lower grade drivers, but I don't know the details. Soranik has continued to...

Yes, I didn't just mean price. It definitely depends on the manufacturer. But you'd be surprised how many companies get away with cutting costs on QC for FR unit variance. They usually do QC with intermediate steps that don't require as much human labor, such as voice coil wind consistency...

I've seen a lot of variance with Blon units. Every measured FR looks different. Pretty sure at $30-ish they're not doing any QC and shipping them out.

I was a little confused at first as well. But @chickenmoon seems to have the right answer. Personally, I have the PRO as a review unit, and I think it's a pretty good all-arounder that does very little wrong. To me, it's a jack-of-all-trades type of earphone.

All this talk about adhesives and seasons... Personally only interested in one single thing out of new age chi-fi right now, the Nature Sounds NS5 Mk. II. It looks like a massive improvement over the original Dream Bridge.

Yes, that's one of the reasons why I mentioned that it was reasonable. I don't know what the breakup resonance frequency of CNT is, but I'm assuming that ringing is actually due to the coupler rather than the earphonrs themselves. The design of the 711 coupler makes it such that there is high...

Nature Sound is gearing up for an NS-5 Mk II model. Revised housings look less invasive, more comfortable. 10 mm CNT DD, FR looks like it's somewhere between the Harman target and the Etymotic XR target. CSD looks somewhat clean, except for high frequency ringing that looks pretty reasonable.

This uses one of ESS' new codec DACs. There are plenty of codec DACs that work fine, but they've been stigmatized in the audiophile world for various (often unfounded) reasons. http://www.esstech.com/index.php/en/news/newsroom/ess-introduces-suite-usb-codecs-featuring-audiophile-sabre-dacs/

It seems @twiceboss is a self admitted treble head, who would probably be better served by a modded FD01 or Drop FDX1, or by the Hiditon NT6, which does seem to improve on the Ety signature in many ways. Personally I don't find the ProPhile-8 to be an Ety replacement or upgrade, though there are...

In what way is it significantly better? This is the first time I've heard of Aune releasing an In-Ear. Being that Aune is a DAC, amp, and DAP manufacturer, chances are this product is a subcontracted one, so the key is finding out who makes it for them and whether they have the chops to make a...

I have leaned toward smoother treble signatures for the past few years but in general I've been quite treble tolerant (no need to do so, but if you look at my posts from 5 years ago you'll see I had a preference for pretty bright signatures. This is all besides the point though. As long as you...

Glad you're enjoying it. Maybe my standards are a bit too... stringent haha

I think I finally found a way for me to enjoy to the Titan 6. With EPro horn shaped tips (long length, wide diameter with reverse taper at the end) and as deep a fit as possible, I get smoothed out resonance peaks, so the natural timbre of the beryllium driver is brought out, but I don't lose...