The 530's were released back in 2007. First pair of 'expensive' iems I owned. They were good back in the day (or I didn't know any better then) - certainly +ve reviews at the time - but the 530's (and the 535's which I also own) are no longer remotely competitive. Mids are nice but treble...

Hey PA - love your work. I bought the FH3 on the back of your review. I was already interested and the review pushed me across the line. You are so right - these are killers at this price point. The bass on the FH3 is the bomb.

I think this is actually marketing genius. It is so obviously bonkers to offer a $50 for $15 grand that it grabs attention, with lots of people posting about how nuts this is. I doubt they expect to sell any, but if the goal was to get a bunch of posts and clicks - mission accomplished! Or maybe...

Has anyone experienced build quality issues? I have had 2 sets of KPH30i - both desk use only. The first snapped at the headband after 3 months and the second went dead in the right driver after one month. I cannibalised the unbroken headband to repair the set with both drivers working. I love...

Can't help you on the IT01s, but I have the IT01 and the 00, The graphs (use Crin's graph comparison tool) are almost identical. The 00 is tuned the same as the 01, but it is markedly superior in tonality, resolution, stage and imaging. The shop I bought it from has cut the price of the 01...

iBasso IT00 – crazy good! Not a full review – received the IT00 a few days ago so posting my impressions. (Thanks to Minidisc in Sydney – great service as always!) The short version – these are ridiculously good for sub $100 iems. Simple, tasteful design which is very comfortable. The cable...

At almost any price?! An IMAX theatre will do it.

As others have said, the RE 400 is bass light, mid-centric. Mids are great - they have a distinctive tuning, and it is really a matter of whether you like that tuning (see Crin's graph). HOWEVER - there are QC issues. Mine split at the strain relief after a few months of light use, and QC seems...

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Yep - that'll be the DD

Yeh, sorry - typo. But what is it with chi fi iem names? It's like the naming convention is to drop a tennis ball on the keyboard and whatever appears on screen is the iem name.

I have had the Ety 2xr for 4 months now. I really like them - I am learning to appreciate the virtues of a more neutral tuning. On technicalities they are clearly better my other single DDs (Tin T4, IT01, TFZ T3, Anew U1) and they are better than my campfire comets. However, one thing you need...

If the sister iem is a "super spaceship" then possibly Moondrop Space Shuttle, or Moondrop Satellite or Moondrop Starshot ... but my first choice is Super Spaceship Luna -- The Luna (actually Luna 2) was the first manmade object to touch the moon, a Soviet spacecraft in 1959, a decade before...

Really helpful!! thankyou

Dsnuts: Could you (or anyone else) offer a brief comparison of the D10 and the NF audio NA1, or just any signifcant points of difference between the two? thanks

Yes, that makes no sense at all. Gold would be a terrible diaphragm material - it's heavy and soft. Some of the iem descriptions on Penon are so whack that it must be the manufacturers use google translate to turn their descriptions into English - so maybe it's an auto-translate error.

Yes! That graph describes my set perfectly - balanced and no treble peak whatsoever. Incredible performance for the price.

I have owned the DM6 since Nov and HBB's graph corresponds exactly with my subjective experience. My set has no treble peak - the treble is excellent, lots of detail, good air and a very large soundstage for an iem, but no problematic peakiness. I suppose it's possible that there is a batch of...

Fair bit of discussion about tips here. Agree that foams change the sound a bit - I suspect that when foamies are inserted deep they can sometimes wind up partially covering the nozzle. After some experimenting I settled on spin-fits - they seem to give (me) a much better seal than the stock...

"Scientific empiricism" .... seriously?! Actually James gave a perfectly good 'empirical' justification ... that it takes a week to test an app and that would just be to find the bugs it causes, much less actually fix them. Testing the stability of 3rd party software on an OS it wasn't designed...

Ok - but it's only a little bit smaller and they have the same style of fit - with a flange that fits into the concha part of the ear. If the IT04 is painful for you then I recommend that you don't buy the DM6 without demo-ing it first.

I have both the DM6 and the IT04, so here are some comparative notes. This is not a full scale comparison – just some comments on points of difference I notice after a couple of hours A/B-ing between them. Sources were an iBasso DX120 and an iFi nano dac/amp plugged into my mac mini. Physical...

I don't think much of clavenetjunkie's reviewing style - and the comparison demo is meaningless. You can't learn anything about a headphone by listening to a recording of it, through some other headphone connected to your computer. If you really want to know what a unit sounds like you have to...

Actually it was your youtube review that first drew the DM6 to my attention - so thanks for that HBB - great rec!

DAPs are iBasso DX120 and Shanling M0. The DX120 is pretty neutral. Tips I am using are silicons that came stock with campfire comets (U1 has a fairly large nozzle). Haven't tried foams. You are right that it might just be different ears - sensitivity to specific frequency ranges varies a lot...