from what i recall MK 1 was able to hit a sharp peak at times around 6-8K. I was glad the MK2 fixed it. I thought age finally caught up and i wasn't able to be affected by sharp peaks, but i listened to the MK1 and the peak definitely was still there. Pity they disappeared during covid. Almost...

Interesting. From what i recall, havis have twin 10mms. Wonder if they managed to figure out how to make only 1 unit perform similar to twin units. looks cute. might try later. really miss those blasted havis. fooled me a lot and made me look for nonexistent concerts. Darn things sounded like...

My current favourites are the ASG-1Plus and AF180. I'm wondering if FiiO has managed to experiment with 2-driver only hybrid tuned in a specific way. A DD full range and a BA full range both tuned to have the exact same FR when checked in isolation. They both play to the strength and weakness...

I'm sittin here still waiting for the rebirth of E17K. Not sure why it has to be discontinued instead of continuously improved upon. By targeting reference quality, it will aid in being sellable "forever". The tone controls +/- 10 with small increments of 2 will further enhance that forever...

I don't ask for too much, FiiO. Just make a successor for the E17K. Better internals, lower O.I., less (or better, zero) hiss. Same exact features. Tone controls, lock button, low power consumption OLED display. In fact, I recently discarded my ol'painless, 4 y.o. E17K...and bought the same...

Wonder if Audiofly's coming too. More test-driving needed before I buy one of em AFxxx's

I prefer MMCX, too. With memory cable portion. Need to talk? Pause, schloop it out, swivel it up, talk. RUN if needed. The memory cable ensures security. When conversation ends? Swivel back down, push in, unpause. Done. Readjustment? Unnecessary. Already secure. I can never do that with my...

Not exactly. I'm just trying to remove the manufacturer's "artificial flavouring/extra-overflowing awesomesauce" and re-calibrate the entire thing. My goal is to somewhat use the world as the reference, such that after "calibration", the IEM seem be busted or not working; because of the 1:1...

Yeah...I'm quite confused as to why bass is on the dry side, loud and fast rather than soft and naturally "slow", as slow as the recording permits, but not flabby and loose. Proper separation as well to prevent the looseness from spoiling everything. Unfortunately, there are no tools available...

Alrighty, then. You just made me realise when it comes to hyperbole-based humour...my delivery sucks. Anyway I hope my local headphone bar gets their greasy fingers on these soon. IF they want to, even. The only "mainstream" Chi-Fi that has a celebrity status here is FiiO, followed by all the...

Yikes. I've been bullied into submission by F9 Pro's spikes before; even its bass has sibilance and brightness. Not sure if my body's ready for this kind of BDSM...again. :deadhorse:

How do these fare against SE846 or ASG-1Plus/Havi B3? My hate for the SE846 stems from their unwillingness to carry the bass notes all the way until release/fade. They simply only want to kick hard and loud, followed by instant shut-up, without allowing that sweet, naturally slow bass...

Yup. The same "lowly" E17K, bit-perfect from UAPP, and Havi B3 hole-punch foam tips. Bass 0, treble 0, gain 0dB, Vol 20-22. Insertion depth being slightly deeper than ASG-1Plus, but still my 1Plus isolates better. Weird, huh.

Sorry for the confunsyon confuciusm confusion. What I meant to say was in this way: UE Reference models 1st gen: UERM, the OG reference 2nd gen: UERR (2-pin stock) 3rd gen: UERR (IPX + BaX stock config) The 3rd Gen, which I understand to be a reboot of the remaster, sounds funny in its baxxed...

Hope to give these a try too, seeing how I have a love-hate relationship with my SE846s. Bass needs to be more natural and real; softer and weaker as the Hz goes lower, but increasingly slow sustain-release. Just like how bass-subbass behave in real life. I hope either one of these Orivetis...

I would definitely like to have a manufacturer make a Havi B3 successor. Not better sound or worse sound, but just exactly the same; congruent FR, ADSR, tube-ish harmonics, and sheer size of soundstage. With the exact same behaviour when connected to increasingly more powerful amps. I'm pretty...

The vocal tips look like Final Audio tips with different theme/colour scheme.

Cool. I'm considering it, especially if I could get it re-shelled into universals version, with mmcx. I'm pretty sure UE will not entertain that kind of request, though. I have my own specific use for mmcx with memory wire.

Is it just me, or does the new Ver.3 of UERR sound thin and unnatural? I just came back from 2 different stores, one wih ver.2 UERR, dual pin version, and another store with the ver.3 that's using Bax cable. Ver.2 siunds organic and correct, while the one with Bax sounds just wrong. Cymbals and...

Sometimes, all we need is to reduce the volume of the outside world...or make it shut up completely. We don't have a remote for that...so these ear-stuffers are the next best thing.

Unfortunately, that's the occupational hazard of being born as analogue life-froms. As long as these machines and graphs cannot even be relied upon to tell us the relative distance and angles of the instruments in our music, we humans have to do everything ourselves.

Completely agree. In fact, if we're lucky, we'll even find a magical earphone that adds distortion in such a way that even sibilance is presented in a very sweet and seductive way. Sibilance isn't really something that we attribute a positive characteristic to, but man...when you hear an...

About time FiiO gets into the flat arena. Hopefully this gives the VE5 a run for their money; I refuse to believe that weird treble dip in VE5 costed them $1000 more to put in there...

Hm... So far I've only tried EX1000 from an owner at an audio store. It has bright vocals but to my ears it sounds deliberately forced clarity rather than natural, so that portion grabbed my attention first before I could try to check the soundstage. I can't handle that kind of fiesty sound for...