As a Vortex owner myself, even though I personally still like them, I have to agree that there are some better options out there without paying that much.

Yes sir. Yeah I bought both from two different stores. The 1st pair's price was much better. SGD35.31.

Can anyone give me a good link for K's LBB Black No Mic? No Aliexpress as I have already 2 pairs of them with mics. Kept the 1st pair. 2nd one I have already opened a dispute. Whatever happens, I just don't care anymore. Very disappointed, but at the very least, they do not much wrong soundwise...

This is written after only few months of use and also not that often as well, so please take my impression with a pinch of salt. I cannot remember when I exactly bought the Basic, but I knew that after testing them out brifely with the already extinct Sony ZX1, I find them to be already...

Krieg - Transient Next: Godflesh - Post Self

Suis La Lune - Distance / Closure     <a data-cke-saved-href="http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/distance-closure" href="http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/distance-closure">Distance / Closure by Suis La Lune</a> 

I really need to hear more of The Body as well (also liked the Krieg one as well). Furthermore, Full Of Hell and Merbow plus Sister Fawn is still one of my favorite releases of 2014, regardless of many find it to be too "Disneyland". It was the kind of music that both grindcore and noise nerds...

I am definitely lacking of 2016 releases.     For me, this is really immature, but some of the best metal releases that I come to like are Inquisiton and Geuvrah's Hallelujah (two of the better black metal releases I have personally heard in a while), Cobalt (not better than Eater of Birds...

Two of my favorites post-related bands. I'm sure some of you may have already known them, but I will still put them up here: Hope Drone by Hope DroneJesu (The Released Picture Disc Mix) by jesu For Hope Drone, if you have come to like them, Cloak of Ash, released on Relapse Records, in my...

Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours   Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death

You can say the same about other albums like Mastery's Valis, Liturgy's Aesthethica and Pyramids' A Northern Meadow. I am going off the rails, but the way they played music is more seemed to be "wanky", or how I would put it - "artsy", so it's understandable and respectable that such music is...

It was more burtal than tech for me, but it's just one of those albums that should have been heard by those who have slight interest in death metal already. The debut (traditional but still a relatively overlooked one) and Self-titled were really good as well, as much as I don't care about...

Good for the mainland locals. Now that all the doubts have been cleared and I have cooled down (by cancelling/stop all purchases and settling with what I have), I would not hesitate to buy either the final KC08 or the KC08T if I have the opportunity to do so in the future.

It was really awesome when I was in the zone, but after a while, I just hoped that I could be less sentimental in the first place. Still a cool album, it's just that my taste is really all over the place and I am still horrendously slow at learning after all.   I really like Pleiades' Dust...

    The KC08 are v-shaped, so definitely not the choice for Etymotic-sounding earbuds.

This is my gateway album to Katatonia. Rainroom is one of the best songs by them as well. I also enjoy almost every other albums by them, especially The Great Cold Distance until Night Is The New Day, which in my opinion, was impossible for me to get into. That's when I have lost interest in...

Using the Monk+ (non-EP) included foams with KC08 and they just get better than ever (bias, I know). Comparing with the stock full foams, the sub-bass is not perfect yet again, but definitely noticably improved, with the mid-bass actually being less emphasized yet still enough for my taste...

Not sure about the latter, but I rememeber reading earlier on this thread that there isn't really any difference between the 2015 ("Go Pro") and the 2016, which is the version that I'm getting.

In my opinion, great albums have enough qualities, if not, just don't have the luck to get enough hyped (at all). Antikatastaseis is beyond death metal and avant-garde, even beyond what some of my personal favorite bands and artists have ever done! Maybe I've said too much, but it's both...

Some of my plans this week (most from Profound Lore, including some that proves that I'm a noob): Abyssal - Antikatastaseis (this is absolutely on par with, if not the best release [besides Frozen Niagara Falls] by Profound Lore yet) Portal - Vexovoid, Swarth Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages...

This is really good news from Fiio, considering most of the portable DAC/Amp are still capped at mostly 44/16 bit for mobile devices (quite underwhelming, to be honest, but that's the limits of technology). Looking forward to those options soon.

Hmm will update (if there is) any problems of mine if they ever arrive. Could be a matter of luck as well as those who kept quiet probably have no problems at all, dare I assume.

That new metal back plate looks really nice from Rose. Since listening to the KC08 almost exclusively, Mojito is perhaps the only proper upgrade for me. Nothing against the VE fans though, Zen 2 may be cool for me, but I only have a pair of ears and I have sooo many things that I'm after for...

the tumbled sea - "songs by the tumbled sea" https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/songs-by-the-tumbled-sea Altar of Plagues - Live at Club Cloectiv. Bucharest http://altarofplagues.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-club-colectiv-bucharest Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World...

Used the Monk+ for over 100 hours, sounds really good so far with the mids being less grainy and less brightness in signature as well. That's just my own experiences though, so just use them to listen to music instead to find out the differences yourself.