Apologies in advance. I'd promised not to further derail this thread, but unfortunately I've never been very good at not freely voicing my opinion and have some more thoughts on where all this is headed. It seems my original post on this thread ruffled a few feathers. I'll try to summarize for...

If you had been there, you would have seen that I was respectful. As requested, I did not take measurements beyond impedance, and even that hasn't been published anywhere. I will sign off at this point so as not to further derail this thread, but one last cry in the wilderness before I go...

I'm sorry this interaction didn't end more pleasantly, but your recollection of events doesn't correlate with mine. I always ask everybody before I measure anything. As we discussed, I would have been much more interested to see impedance and distortion/waveform error than FR from a B&K rig...

Big thanks as usual to all the CanJam staff and exhibitors (thank you @joe for my shiny new badge!), and a very special shout-out to the super-nice Bloom Audio folks who tolerated me for so long at their booth :) Here are my good and not-so-good impressions of SoCal's 2023 CanJam. I'll start...

We've added you :-) Current tour list is here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/etymotic-er2se-a-reference-headphone-for-your-ears-and-your-couplers.908512/post-17008210

You're welcome. Enjoy that V40 :-)

Filter settings can cause (slight) audible differences from how much roll-off you get at higher frequencies and how much ringing you get around sharp transients. We found the short filter measures best. I would not trust the native LG music player for all the reasons discussed here. It can't...

Sadly true :-( Many things are going backwards. People are easily fooled by 'newer is better'.

@jb2unique - I wouldn't feel under too much pressure to swap your V40 for a V60. The V60 has better battery life, but if you're only using your V40 as a DAP, that may not be a big issue. From the V35 onward, these LG phone DACs have all been extremely accurate, and very close in terms of...

I totally agree about the small size and comfort of Xelentos and IE900. Other than dynamic range (which is helpful only if you're a stage musician needing faster ways to destroy your hearing), single driver headphone tech seems to be just as competitive these days and has found methods to tune...

I had a chance to check out the Gen 2 Xelentos. I'm afraid it's a no from me :frowning2: I know there's somebody out there for every headphone, so if you enjoy them, great, but there are also people out there that enjoy being eaten in bizarre sadomasochistic canabalistic rituals, so forgive me...

Things were looking a bit bleak here for a while... But some happy news for future Androiders... Watch out for a new UAPP version coming to a Play Store near you tomorrow :)

That sounds like a ridiculously good price. I hope they're legit 🤞

It felt like groundhog day returning to the same SoCal venue for this CanJam (historical throwback: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/canjam-socal-2019-impressions-thread.909385/post-15027066). Despite a couple of years of pandemic-fueled supply-chain constraints and near double-digit inflation...

Yup. That's what they told me they'd done. Foam density and position in the filter tube. Can't argue with it now it's an official Shure product :)

I had a chance to try out the new red filter last weekend at the SoCal CanJam. (The red filter is now the default in the latest generation of SE846). Forgive my horrible photography skills - I was trying to capture the position of the foam in the tube: Hopefully you get the gist of it. There is...

The ~5 kHz driver resonance is probably ubiquitous, but the 8-11 kHz canal resonance varies a lot with insertion depth, eartip and human (that peak measures quite differently on a B&K 5128 coupler). So it might be a bit spicy for some, but not for others. And even then it's only a narrow region...

There could be an argument that if somebody prefers the sound of the Xelentos over anything else, then they are the best tuned IEMs - for that person. For me, Harman has too much lower treble.

Very true - but an under-appreciated point here on headfi.

It's been a while since I posted here. I'm still loving my Xelentos, but feeling slightly slutty as I have been spending some time with a couple of other IEMs recently. If you already have a Xelento and you've already made the port mod, I think you're good to go. I've not found anything that...

V30 and V35 were/are really great phones :-) Just curious - what headphones were you listening to all these LG phones on?