I apologize if I offended you in any way - like I said I wasn't trying to harp on you or anything regarding these mainstream audio terms, but even head-fi isn't impervious to the use (and misuse) of 'mainstream terms'. Yes, people like you and me do understand what these terms really mean, but...

Not harping on you or anything, but I hate it when people plaster terms like 'basshead' onto iems like these, as if bass was the only thing the ZS1 was good at. I mostly grabbed this for how well its bass blends with the treble and the soundstage, and also how spacious the soundstage was...

Yeah, it's a general rule for me to treat dual dynamic driver IEMs the same as BA's in that they sound less like what they're designed to sound like if you match it with the wrong/weak source audio outputs (including impedance mismatch).    But damn that 0.075 ohms output impedance on the...

So a friend of mine told me to give Knowledge Zenith a try (amongst other things), so I looked it up and ended up here, and then ended up ordering myself a set of ZS1's after skimming through the thread and also after auditioning a few of KZ's IEMs through a kind soul who lives near here... and...

Oh it's exactly the same with the 3.5 mm plug cable relief; the cable relief is like a skirt around the actual cable, not actually attached to the cable at all until past the right angle area which I can't see from outside. I can wiggle the cable even inside its cable relief.    But yeah the...

No, the strain relief and the cable are separate - the strain relief actually only attaches to the shell, while the cable attaches to the inside of the shell, so it kinda behaves like a 'skirt' around the cable.    I used mine daily, to the point where the rubbery/siliconey strain relief...

You could try asking around here on head-fi for anyone willing to rent out their pair to you, just like how people rent out their IEMs to be reviewed by others.    The sub-bass to bass (to even the mids) are very accurate on the fxt208se, able to distinguish even the tiniest shades of...

I apologize for not updating my initial review of the FXT200LTD (mine's the 208se btw since mine's the asian import version) because there wasn't much interest in it even with it's overly spacious soundstage and organic sound signature. Additionally, I didn't want to bump the thread up for no...

  Sorry if I wasn't clear enough: Its bass is really good, just not enough in quantity, and because of this it sounds like a (bassless) tin can if you're sitting in a bus/train with the engines droning loudly in the background.   I also mentioned that I THINK this problem has to do with it...

Did you actually do that with yours?   The longest I ever did was ~300-350 hours with my DT880s iirc.   I don't know if the dual driver system factors into the burn-in time, does anyone have any knowledge with regards to dual drivers?   As for me I'm already loving the FXT208SE's and am...

..eh I just amended my post with regards to the bass lol. It has somewhat of a decent rumble now that my EQ's off, weird. So don't use any sort of bass boost on this, it'll make it go the opposite way.

    This is gonna upset some of you, but yes, I did detect channel imbalances on one or two of the demo sets I've tried. It varied with volume too so it made it rather difficult for me to do comparisons having to adjust the channel balance again and again. I think it has something to do...

EDIT: I first posted this impression of my FXT208SE on 16th February (16/2). It is June now and my impressions have changed significantly (positive) since then. Mainly my claim about the bass is outdated - the bass is bottomless and goes audibly down to 20hz. Will update soon :)   Looking at...

I haven't been here in like.. years, ever since I hit my end-game for audio x).   Yes the FX101s burn-in time is ridiculous, I'd recommend it to anyone as an all-rounder entry level IEM to get their audiophile engines up and running, if it wasn't for the freakishly long burn-in time, which is...

  Yup I'm well aware they're fake leather/leatherette/pleather, but I didn't care much for that since it didnt degrade the quality of the audio too much, and like some people say these things stop sounding so muffled after 'breaking' them in for awhile.   .. this is of course if you're NOT...

I'm known to take good care of all my things, and just recently my JVC portables died on me (really gracefully too - it just went mute on one channel all of a sudden) after going through thick and thin with me for more than 3 years.   I don't know if I'm just on a (audio) bad luck streak or...

Woah it really does work again. The last time I checked was after new years so I thought Thomas must've finally disabled the coupon for good and then I stopped checking afterwards. Thanks for the heads-up.   So I guess I don't need that TD4 review as much now.. *goes off to order more Xears...

Quote:   Did you say _wider_ soundstage? And I thought the N3I and the xe200pro won everything else in the Xears' lineup in terms of soundstage and separation (and air too). I own the TDIII, and from what I understand, the TD4's are the TDIII successors right? If what you say is true...

  Quote:   I've tried the XB500, Monster Turbines, Xears N3i, etc. I first started off with a Creative EP630/830 fyi. NONE of these come even close (with the exception of the Xears N3i when you EQ up the sub bass) when compared to the JVC Xtreme Xplosives (aka JVC HA-FX1X). Of course...

I'd love to know too. I've been using the Xears Nature N3i with comply t400 tips for quite some time now and it's the best set of IEMs I've heard so far. I'm a basshead btw, which is why the N3i sounds tolerable to me :)   Thing is Thomas at Xears has now stopped the KLANGFUZZIS coupon...

First of all, sorry if I bumped up an old thread, but I just wanted to put my opinion of this bass monster out there.   I just registered here to say that the JVC HA FX1X has got the deepest bass I have ever heard in my life, on top of the pretty much transparent mids and sparkly highs. Some...