I see! :-) I understand why detailed photos are important for the diagnosis now. You have to look closely. Thank you Heinz, much appreciated. Now to decide whether I trust myself to do the un-glueing and re-glueing! I need to get a very fine artist’s brush to avoid messiness. I think I should OK...

Hi, I’m looking to get the faceplate fixed on a pair of Wraith IEMs. A bubble has appeared at the edge. I emailed Support at Empire Ears on 7 January but haven’t received a response. Does anybody have any contacts at Empire Ears who could help? Photos attached. Thanks.

The thing I love most about headphones is that they excel with different music genres and artists and the search for the perfect synergy has opened my ears to music I’ve never considered listening to before. With the K1000 it was Yo-Yo Ma’s Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites.

Hi Heinz, thank you very much for your diagnosis. The very slight rattling during bass heavy tracks completely disappeared after opening and closing the left housing to take the photos I posted. I gently squeezed the cages around the edges after getting rid of the very slight rattling to see if...

I’m listening to my K1000 with a Stefan AudioArt balanced 4 pin XLR cable through a Shanling EM7 Streaming Music Centre, apparently designed by Shanling partly with the K1000 in mind. The trick with the EM7 is to stream to it. I’m using a Melco N1ZS Ex digital music library.

Hi all. I had an issue with very slightly rattling bass on bass heavy tracks on the left monitor of my K1000. I thought I might have the issue with the driver membrane coming unglued from the assembly housing. I took the cage apart but it looked fine, I put it back together, and the rattling...

Sorry to hear about the problems you had with your EM7. If you’re not using it, you should sell it while you still can. I bought mine used and you are probably right about what you’d get for it.

I can forgive the EM7’s minor glitches because streaming pop, EDM, and hip hop from a Melco N1ZS through the EM7 to Empire Ears Legend Evo IEMs with a Liquid Links Venom cable is thunderous and superb. Definitely, synergy dependent though, Mest Indigos sound better on the FiiO M17 dap.

I get “Error. Unable to complete operation” too when I go into Qobuz on the EM7 but it disappears almost immediately. I have purchased tracks rather than unlimited streaming and they play fine from my Offline Library through the EM7. When I stream a Hi Res song it plays back in random...

Upgraded to 1.60. Much nicer search interface for playing music locally. Listening to Run The Jewels on the EM7 with Unique Melody Mest Indigo. Streaming from a Melco N1ZS. Less bright and brittle than playing from an SD card.

Mest Indigos as described. Great communication and very fast delivery. Thank you!

One of the best pairings I’ve found for bass across IEMs and headphones is Shanling EM7 -> Liquid Links Venom 4.4mm cable -> Legend Evo. The EM7 is bright, transparent, and powerful with a mids and treble emphasis. Previously, I listened to my Legend Evos on a FiiO M17 DAP with an iFi iPower...

Friendly seller and excellent communication throughout. Thank you.

I did some more experimenting with the EM7. Line Out by RCA and Pre-Out via coaxial to a Hegel H95 integrated amplifier and then out to Susvaras through the speaker taps on a Forza Noir Hybrid HPC cable with banana plugs. I thought the clarity and treble extension of the EM7 might compliment...

The best synergy I’ve found with the Shanling EM7 are Legend Evo IEMs. The EM7 lacks bass but has excellent treble extension and Legend Evos are the opposite. Legend Evos love power, I listen to them on the DC-powered enhanced over-ear headphone mode on a FiiO M17. The EM7 goes past what the...

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I wasn’t expecting much from the Shanling EM7 but it’s surprisingly good with the Susvara, particularly with pop / vocals, as you say. It didn’t impress me as much with 1266 TCs. In my main set up, I sweeten my 1266 TCs with a Cayin HA300 amp with WE 300b tubes and a JPS Superconductor cable...

The stock photos are MKII and the actual photos are MKI. The MKII has the additional 4.4mm output.

Very nice IEMs, fast delivery and exactly as described. Trustworthy and friendly Head-fier.

Hi, would you be willing to post this to the UK? I’m fine paying any additional postage. Thanks, Andrew.

I use Azla too, they’re more comfortable than the stock Final E. Zeus XIV with Azla is fine but Legend Evo with Azla is just a bit more prone to soreness. I wear foam ear plugs at night to sleep and sometimes get mild eczema in my ears so I’m probably more prone to ear irritation. It’s mainly...

I have two IEMs, Zeus and Evo. I have the same issue with the Evo, it makes my ears sore after an hour or two. The Zeus is smaller, I can listen to it for longer. If the Raven is even bigger than the Evo, longer listening sessions could be painful. I use a Liquid Links Venom cable with the...

Frank is a top Head-Fi seller. Great communication and good guy throughout. Really enjoying the JPS Superconductor cable on my 1266 TCs.

Upgraded my T2 firmware with Windows 11 tonight. Bit of a fiddle to disable Windows Driver Enforcement on Windows 11. Several methods I tried from the Run window and F8 on boot-up didn’t work but this one did...

Tried the T2 firmware upgrade on an iMac running the older MacOS El Capitan and it failed after I dragged the file into Terminal and pressed Enter. Thought it had bricked the DAC initially but it was fine after unplugging it and plugging it back in. I got some errors in Terminal but assume it...