jazzy night with the newly received katana.....

me too

  use alloy wire with platinum

    I own a pair of  k10ua and recently I have tried katana. I must say katana is better for instrumental in terms of overall clarity while I don't think it is lighter in bass as some described, just it is presented in a different way. For example for jazz bass instrument the k10 sounds more...

I have bought sd4 from kingsound last year and I found nothing to complain with them.   As for the new prophile 8 I have been keep asking kingsound and I am sure they really have not received the demo unit yet. So that is not their fault. I heard that the inear people will bring the demo unit...

Just got 3rd driver failure on left side, last fixing is Feb 2016, very depressed, this has been very long time why still can't fix the problem......

If Prophile 8 canot be driven satisfactorily as sd4 I'd rather keep the latter.

I only wonder if it is as easy to drive as sd4 (with mobile phone) before buying it

sd2 to sd4 difference is huge on bass, unless the track you trial has little of it

As I can understand although the bass remain the same, more of the mids will let you feel less bass at the same volume, and when you tune up the volume with more bass, the mids could become too much for someone......    I have tried Dulce Bass and it cannot replace k10u in overall SQ. So the...

oh...but I don't want a bloated mids

This thing likely 2 times > the prices of 846 and andromeda

Oh yea, the k10u - 10 drivers per side and also alloy cable draw more current, I can use lower volume with sd4

I can understand that, I usually listen to flac of CDs recorded in the 90's

I am only using zx2 half volume to drive my k10u with single end. I really doubt if there is considerable upgrade with wm1a.....Especially when everything is fine with smooth control in zx2 and also it has superb playback time

They used burr brown 1795 in their uda-1 before 

okay S-Master is for DAP, the dac chip inside TA-ZH1ES is not known yet

What is the dac inside?

I am using an platinum alloy cable from Hong Kong Labkable, Samurai III material (originally for iem) to custom made a 8 strand headphone cable for my Lcd3f. It is composed of approximately 98.5% Silver, 1% Gold and 0.5% Platinum (they have verified composition at lab).   The gold and platinum...

It is not impressive, but everything is not bad, a very balanced and slightly warm sound. I'll say they are at the very top choice for overall performance at similar price.

after reading the recent comments on katana vs k10, I am confident to continue to stick with k10ua

I am not ready to pick katana over my k10u if the katana just gives better treble but less bass hit