Just a heads up that the EPZ K5 is $100 on AliExpress right now. It's a great little 1+4 with excellent tonality and driver-cohesion. Also comes with a really good selection of accessories. I personally love mine. (Im)patiently waiting for EPZ's new stuff. Too bad they couldn't get the new...

Edit: Realized what I said may have come off as slightly disrespectful so I'm just gonna "delete" this.

I blind bought one, I also have a coupler coming. I'll measure it when they both show up.

Now if only literally any other person alive other than Redcarmoose had heard the PDM7 lol

It would be $309, Linsoul's normal price for it is $399 I believe.

Lol Leisurely appears to have changed their mind about putting the L8 on sale. Linsoul asked me for another $210 for it. Nope, cancel and refund please. Also noticed that on AliExpress the L8 no longer says "dropping to $99". Nice, guys.

I wonder if Knowles dampers would fit in the sound tubes. Really hard to find anything about this IEM. There's an unfavorable review by Akros and from what I can gather, a favorable review in Portuguese by a reviewer called Ankramutt. At least it seems like a couple of us ordered it so we...

His review was kind of the odd one out, other people seemed to mostly like it. Either way I can't cancel the order so at least we'll have my impressions to add to the review pool for it. I'm not really bothered by aggressive upper mids so I might be fine with it? We'll see.

I'm also curious about this one? It's graph looks really nice and it uses brand name BAs. I couldn't resist, I grabbed one from Linsoul. $100 for Sonion and Knowles BAs is nutty. I'll have impressions and measurements of it in the future.

I think it's the same cable but just different metal. I don't like the connectors and the cable itself feels kinda cheap and rubbery. It just doesn't really go with the IEM itself which feels quite premium.

Audiosense T800 is gonna be $145 on the 17th during the AliExpress summer sale if anyone wants to try an oldie but goldie. The stock cable sucks though so I'd suggest picking up something else at the same time.

I'm not sensitive to pressure buildup (daily user of Audiosense DT200 lol) but good to know.

The V12 is about to be on sale, I might pick it up as well. Apparently it's a detail monster? You can probably thank @FreeWheelinAudioLuv2 for that hahaha

Hmmm....

I absolutely LOVE Audiosense S400 tips. I have them on almost all my regular-rotation IEMs.

I love my T800 lol

T800 is all Knowles. It uses this for the bass: https://www.knowles.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/receiver-datasheet-hodvtec-31618-000-16dde1a731dff6ddbb37cff0000940c19.pdf?Status=Master&sfvrsn=852177b1_0

Penon Turbo, Audiosense T800, and IvipQ Conch V11 are the ones I know of.

The exception to the bass thing and pressure build up is vented BA woofers. They come close to DD bass and shouldn't have the pressure issues. But sets that integrate a bass BA like that aren't super common.

Timbre can be off compared to dynamics, and very few all BA sets have the same bass impact as DDs.

Earsticles

Probably wanna wait for more people to get a unit, and for measurements to show up. Other than Moose we're all blind about this one at the moment lol.

You're like the only other person in this thread with the TD20 so I'm just gonna leave this here, sounds incredible on the TD20: As a side note thanks for bringing the TD20 to my attention. I feel like Planar IEMs are all tuned to be bright and energetic, but every full-sized planar headphone...

This thing is getting so much attention these last couple days lol. Discovery thread doin' it's thing.