The Campfire Audio Andromeda that the ZS6 and SZ5 are 'based on' are five driver, including dual HF BA: Dual High Frequency Balanced Armature Drivers + T.A.E.C. Single Mid Frequency Balanced Armature Driver Dual Low Frequency Balanced Armature Drivers

I wouldn't suspect that the waveform above 5K relates to a crossover working or not working. I'd say there's probably a crossover right below ~5K and the hi-frequency driver (or drivers, assuming they may be using 2 of the same) that take over at that point have that characteristic. It would be...

I dunno man. I wore my ZS6's for over 2 hours on stage, and beyond adjusting my main levels (they appear to lack some sensitivity compared to the ZSTs), I didn't find them overly bright or have any serious fatigue from them. I rode just as much hi-hat in my mix as I ever do.

Great album, we did a series of shows with them during this era... Here's a really nice board recording from one of them in 1996: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxt7VkYTmCJYYk8zU2dBRG9lZUE

I started out yesterday with a King Tubby Revolutionaries Dub collection, but it wanted something that had a little more fidelity going for it to really hear what was up. A bit of JBB and our own album did the trick. I love old Studio 1 era stuff...But I generally love it all in different...

Does anyone have a bead on what the actual MOST isolating tips are? I'm a guy who stands in front of a 3000w bass amplifier and a 6pc drum kit.

That makes sense. There's no way that any kind of anything across the front would be acoustically invisible in actuality. Sort of like the differences that dust cover material makes on speakers.

The ZST they suggest the T500. They don't list ES3.

They go into details on their page, but the shapes relate to comfort and/or they have the anti-sweat ones, which may be coated I'm guessing? I would go for the ones that have the most isolating effect.

The sort of common standard for them is Comply...they have a search engine on their page so you can check the size: http://www.complyfoam.com/

I was just comparing to the Shure IEMs, since they're sort of standard for stage monitoring. Definitely not close to ruler flat above 2k. Doesn't have the attenuation in the 4k range though...but that could be there because so many complained about the 5's sibilance... Luckily none of us listen...

Thank you. In the studio now doing a follow up. :) The full album is free/streaming at that soundcloud account. Our producer has pretty precise hearing and is a bit of a gear tweak (vintage ribbon mics, tube compressors) and we used a lot of legit vintage gear ('48 Hammond/leslie, clav, rhodes...

The graphs certainly do suggest that their response north of about 2k is erratic, especially when comparing to professional grade full sized speakers (and possibly other IEM speakers)...but then I'm always leery of home testing environments and accuracy anyway. The next step would be to figure...

Ah, Midnite. Good stuff. Seen him a few times! Here's what I do. Should be pretty good on your earholes for testing your ZS6's. Full album here:

I test with Reggae. I get no distorted bass even with good uncompressed modern recordings. Yep. They really look nice. I'm wondering if they'll look as nice once they kick around in my gigbag for a while. I'll let everyone know how the anodizing holds up.

I normally would have gone for the black ones, but the red ones were on Amazon Prime, so free two day shipping...it seemed like a good way to go since GearBest takes a while to ship (still waiting on my ZS5's!). But yeah, the overall feel/look is really nice. My end impressions will be...

Only had a few minutes with these last night, but I'm already pretty impressed. Definitely a step up from the ZSTs I've been using...

I've been using ZST's at home in the studio for tracking and more recently on stage for our IEM setup...rather than the Shure SE215's I have on hand. I've been pretty pleased with them...but they really were a test to see if I liked IEMs in general. I figured I'd drop another 20$ on a set of...