Ok, I also make an occasional music recommendation: Just AB'ing some IEMs and the one track in my extensive test track library for optimally evaluating sub bass and mid bass is: Be warned, with bass head sets you'll likely get a nice brain massage :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Just a story I remembered when reading your requirements (except the price). Fatfreq Grand Maestro came into my mind... but then again, please this is no recommendation, just a thought, so don't kill me 🤷‍♂️because these are ridiculously expensive. But the Grand Maestro is one of a kind flagship...

+1 for the iBasso DC-Elite, probably one of the best dongles on the market, accidentally featuring a sound signature tailored to your very preferences: I know, not the cheapest, but here applies "you buy cheap, you buy twice". It's a no-brainer when you're looking for a literal end-game dongle...

I guess talking to @Dsnuts can be even more expensive than the discovery thread :grin:🤣

Hey, at AliExpress you can find never before seen and probably heard of (literally) IEMs which are 95% off and now sell for for only 150 $ That's your entry ticket to the "Summit-Fi" High-End thread :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: I wonder @ToneDeafMonk what happened to the (your) Project M...

There is IMHO only one which definitely suits your sound preferences: iBasso DC-Elite.

Amen! :beerchug:

I just upgraded my DUNU SA6 MkII ...stupid me, I couldn't resist after chatting with @Dsnuts about cables and what I can do to maybe boost the soundstage of my most beloved IEM in my collection but still keeping the precision and speed of the low end... this was his professional conclusion...

Hmm... to me it looks like as if DaVinci would have smoked something green back in the old days, he would have called it "Explorer" :smoking::laughing:

...quality, and surely to mention also marketing. Timmy is on the one hand a well experienced reviewer, and on the other hand, he's big enough to get s**tloads of feedback from his community, and the market overall... likely more so than any product- and marketing-manager from DUNU. He is...

If anyone is interested in the excellent PULA PA02 (which is identical to the Myer Audio Sliivo D41), they're on offer at HiFiGo for €174,22 > Current price €138,26 $189.00 > Current price $149.99 Worth every penny.

That quote my friend got me laughing out loud. 🤣 :fingers_crossed: I get the feeling that this won't happen:thinking:, not with @FreeWheelinAudioLuv2, no, not with you, and not with most of us in this very thread.... because in The Discovery Thread, you better have some cash on the side...

Here you go: on another note, what I found interesting is the "unfair" comparison between these two: > at least the tuning looks quite similar, except the 6-8 kHz push for about 3-5 dB with the Glacier... surely not really to be compared with one another, but still interesting how both of...

...much more expensive IEMs lately, but for the music I listen most, the SA6 MkII are hard to beat... with their, what I like to call, unique "brainf**k" tuning :wink: . They are so definitely not neutrally tuned, that they "manipulate you on the psychoacoustic level... and together with the...

Hehe, I had to lol, but in a very good way and so many times when I read your post. :beerchug: Let me tell you why: I am listening with the DX260 and DUNU SA6 MkII as I'm writing this Naturally we have slightly different hearing by a day by day basis, sometimes even intra-day differences...

Here we go my FRC partisans, we finally have our first direct comparison of the Explorer and the DaVinci from one reviewer with one and the same technical measurement setup. This should give us now a better reliability of the curves (as always 60 dB @ 500 Hz): In this context, big thanks...

Comparing IEM's solely by year of release is unnecessary. Whatever you want to compare should be technically somewhat similar, or also possible, the sound signature/tuning should be similar. It always depends what you make out of it, e.g. what emphasis or focus your review has. You absolutely...

Hello @Terco , would you ship to Europe, too? Any chance?

Hey @zlayde , any chance you ship to Europe, too? (if yes, do they also come with 2-pin and MMCX?... and 4.4 termination?)

What? 3.801,01€ original retail price? :laughing: 🤦‍♂️

I think the Eros S it is. Thanks a million! Sure, the now available standard version in Grey looks very nice, but the 1st Edition in this shiny Black with Gold flakies is just out of this world. ...but seems I'm too late to the party, it's sold out everywhere :sob: . EDIT: Lol, found three of...

With iBasso DX260 and NiceHCK Himalaya... holy moly: ...hearing the world's most pristine ancient violin, the 1741 ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri del Gesu, played by the world's most talented violinist is pure joy.

OMG, just about nearly two month ago I was chatting here with a fellow well known Italian, we were discussing DAPs and Dongles... I told him about the DX260 and he counter argumented with "you have a smartphone? Don't buy the DAP, buy the DC-Elite, call it a day, and thank me later" .... Hearing...