Jewel + First Times have arrived. :)

Congrats on the Jewel CIEM. 🎉 I thought about CIEM vs UIEM for the Jewel but it already fits me so well in universal form so I went with that.

Here's two that I like a lot: In other news, Aroma 💎 ordered today and should be here tomorrow. :)

XE6 is definitely different than Indigo. XE6 is: - Much warmer, big bodied sound. - Much more lower mids presence, which helps contribute to the first point above. - More dynamic. - Wider soundstage, sounding quite more open in general, spherical. Indigo’s soundstage is smaller, basically in...

The balanced / W-shaped tuning on Indigo is something that I ended up favoring for the portion of my music library that isn't electronic music. Around the time I got Indigo, I was using EXT for a lot of that kind of music (non-electronic) in my library but the U-shaped signature of EXT got...

Figured I'd rank these while I still have most of them, as I'll be getting rid of about 2 -3 more or so. Ranking just what I own, with one exception being the Phonix which was sold 2 days ago to a colleague of mine. Xenon 6, Odin Phonix Indigo Z1R EXT IE 900 Some background stats: - The IEM...

Never tried Shreebs but the Smorgasburg isn’t too far from that area. 🤤

Probably not a good idea that this video plays background music while doing the frequency sweep at the same time. This might be a bit better way to test: https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php

I joined this website when I was a teenager after my parents bought me an iPod (it was the model that had a color screen for the first time). At that time, the iPod came with those iconic white earbuds and I wanted to see what else was on the market to improve the sound quality I was getting...

Just wrapped up my 4th and final day of listening to the Jewel demo out of the N8ii (high gain/tubes/P+). It went from “this is good but not blown away” on the first day of listening to very impressed by day two and enjoyed it just as much on the final two days. Some impression below... The...

Had another session today with the Jewel...it's getting even better. :)

I think I'm going to use the Stormbreaker cable tonight when I listen again.

This.

Same issue here.

@Rockwell75 in the process of changing his wardrobe to purple:

XE6 + N8ii = :fire::heart_eyes:

I’m happy to see that the cassette tape playback screen is still included, I enjoyed looking at that when I had the ZX507. :)

I was bummed out when Spotify never came through with the HiFi version late last year. Out of the big 3 streaming services (Spotify, Apple, Amazon) that I've used, I enjoy Spotify's recommendations algorithm the most, especially for non-mainstream electronic music.

Sinister plan. 🤫 Maybe you should consider using incognito browser tabs for your purchases as well. :smile:

Had to look that up.

Always enjoy having at least 1 of these when I'm at a KBBQ.

Na, get a Jewel CIEM in purple instead.

Yeah I’d like to read a brief comparison to the N8ii (which I enjoyed a lot) when you have time @Damz87. 🙏

Sell your car and use the money as a down payment for a DMP-Z1.

Welcome to the club.