So I finished cleaning and disinfecting the aiwa : https://i.imgur.com/7u9uu8O.jpg To be honest I had no expectations from them since the last vintage aiwa I got was like an old school radio, and not to my taste. This one however is really nice, I have misplaced my foam bag so I am listening...

I dislike applying filters to achieve a preset target curve, I find each earbud tonality more interesting to hear ( good earbuds at least... ), particularly vintage buds ( and players ). While writing this I am also cleaning a pair of vintage AIWA earbuds I found at the flea market, curious on...

If you google "pinna gain earbuds" the first link: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/headphone-testing-to-pinna-or-not-to-pinna-that-is-the-question.636885/ I basically quoted the guy there. There seem to be more articles but I dont have the time to go through them right now. I disagree, your...

Thanks for the explanation :) I guess I can understand where you are coming from but from a quick google it seems the brain already takes into account the ear cannal resonance so it is not heard anyways...why bother so much for something that is not perceived anyways? Seems like needless double...

Price is not everything, if you dont build the cabinet well even more expensive speaker drivers can be outperformed by cheaper builds. I would also take everything chinese sellers are saying with a grain of salt. Is it really beryllium? Is it coated? Who knows you have to go with what the seller...

I actually had to google what a "pinna gain" is since I dont remember seeing it here before. I have to say its all really silly to me. Pinna for an...earbud? Is the pinna not like the external ear..? Or am I missing something? And why are you trying to correct all earbuds to respond to that...

You should take everything with a grain of salt, especially when its about DIY eabuds. And regarding drivers if you really want something that has good high and low extension save some money for Cypherus earbuds

No, it does not have biocellulose drivers, its just a re-shelled and re-cabled vido. At least it was for the old batches

This statement only further confuses me; there was no DiY400ohm in the discussion and I dont know how it sounds, I dont even know what earbud you are talking about. Regarding tuning, there is only so much you can do; 80-85% of the sound quality comes from the driver

Why do you want a "Graphene" earbud? its all a gimmick. Its not a graphene diaphragm, its supposed to be coated in graphene at most but i really doubt its even coated, I might take the TO400s apart to check if people here really want to. If you really want something with a coated driver I would...

"You have to take into account that it is tuned by Tonekng." dont want to stir up anything but what do you mean by this? The TO400s are mediocre at best

Went back in the thread to get updated since I have been mia for a while. I have owned the TO400s since they were released, I do not recommend them unless you really want to hear what they sound like. Bad quality with the cable arriving with a problem and one driver dying within half a year...

I wouldnt say you need to only MMCX as the only MMCX earbuds I have ( toneking to400s ) had one driver die before the cable. If its bad quality its bad quality. For example looking at this review https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/moonbuds-cresent.23215/reviews , the Moonbuds costed 100$ and "If...

Hey yall, This is going to be a critique, I hope this is allowed as I want to shed some light on how these "artisanal" earbuds are made. So I recently got a pair of Moonbuds Crescent from someone from here. ( will keep it anonymous unless he wants to be known ). Pair was damaged and wasnt...

I brought that up in another reply. It's only my opinion but using the metric "if it doesnt sound good its a fake" seems a bit biased. I honestly have not seen a post about fake vintage earbuds, it may have happened then, but I doubt that many fakes survived...people that tend to keep vintage...

You cant really be sure of that, just think of it as that filtering has already been done. Who would keep a crappy fake earbud of all things to listen to for such a long period of time only to sell it on ebay for a profit 20~ years later? If its not a pristine NOS from somewhere in China I would...

I really doubt they were fake, lets not pretend everything aiwa and sony made are gold, just because its vintage doesnt mean it cant be crap. That particular model is just that, crap.

That particular model really isnt, well it depends on your definition of expensive

Hello everyone! Its been some time since I've been here. Just wanted to put a little project I am starting here. So I have found this aiwa and was very excited about it...then I got really disappointed. It's rather awful sounding with a sound alike a very old radio, perhaps that was intended...

Today is like Christmas for me :) I bought a Bang & Olufsen Earset , a Final E3000 and a Sony MH755 and they all arrived on the same day! I would imagine the people in this thread are interested in the Earset. It is extremely good. Even better than the ZoomFred in some areas. WIll do a full...

Probably mx500-like

To be honest you cant do that much "tuning" on an earbud. Yeah sure you can cover ports and what not but at the end of the day the soun is 90% the same. I have found by experimenting with different new and vintage drivers that what matters the most is the driver...and you cant tune that after...

Also, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000120453244.html , looks like another lucky bag

So I went to the flea market this weekend and look what I found , have to say they sound very good and are pretty much the sound signature that I am looking for, everything is so balanced and feels right, the only lacking thing is bass despite the fact that they have a frequency range of 8-25hz.

I really dislike his shilling and these exaggerated descriptions of his earbuds with "audiophile" slangs that tell nothing at all; from the pages that I read to get updated, every person asking for a recommendation gets his earbuds shoved down their throat. This needs to stop