Welcome to the Rosefinch family!

Here is an Oriolus Isabellae back in the wild. Second owner, obtained 2/24 and independently graphed on mmagtech.squig.link Other than that, you know the drill: Awesome sounding set, but I’ve got too many IEMs and want to make sure this has a good home to be loved in. The price is the price...

If you want an actual dongle dongle, then NiceHCK sells a pretty great lightning to 4.4 dongle for under $20 on AliE

They’re a young company trying to get market share and make a name, so they undercut the usual expected price. But there’s enough profit there to do the undercutting. Also, I’m not worried about some company’s profit, more than worried about them overcharging their audience because they can...

Hifiman would disagree with this, in desktop form

Scarlet Mini for K-Pop, you say? I like a rebel that blazes their own trail. Tip of the cap to you!

Serratus and Ripples for me. They are a yin and Yang to everything I can throw at them

It’s awesome you know your tastes, what works for you, and can cross something unnecessary off your list of gear that interests you. It’s helpful to not feel like you’ve gotta chase everything. So far, I feel that way after getting the 500. It’s gonna be a fun honeymoon period.

Anecdotally, when I demoed the 499/500 at CanJam, the moment I A/B’d them at the same time it was clear as day Hifiman was pushing you up to the 500. Just as a thought experiment, why would they want the 499 with the Phillips R2R dac to be on level with their in-house Himalaya mid-tier dac...

Thank you for your thoughts and impressions. You did a great job!

Aful, Kinera, and Dunu walked into a CanJam booth…🤣😂🤣😂

Where the reviews at?!? Daddy needs to buy a new amp and I wanna be talked into the EF500! 🤣😂🤣😂

Could depend on the rest of the chain. I just learned the JDS Atom+ has poor soundstage/imaging: it crushes the staging to a narrow, very deep staging. That would sound recessed to anybody.

Aurora is the one that stands out most for me

Which can make sense when you know what the frequency response they’re grading headphones/IEMs to is. I don’t go to Rtings for audio reviews cause there’s not a lot of information for me to gleam from them. TVs? I’ll go there all day, though

I used to think this was a thing but honestly, you have more questions for anyone staring into your earholes than they do for your IEM choice. That said, Kinera knows they left money on the table with Pandamon and they came to clean it up with 2.0

Yet you jumped all over my opinion because it wasn’t totally effusive. If I have a right to have my opinion, and I didn’t say anything offensive, why did you feel the need to be so defensive What was such a problem for you to react the way you did?

I mentioned it because I very rarely have issues with fit. I’ve been fine with large nozzles like Truthear Zero, short nozzles (can’t think of one off the top of my head), or weird shaped nozzles like Fan 2. Recently, I’ve found sets that are problematic in fit: at CanJam I struggled with...

So you want an all-rounder and it needs to beat the SA6 Mk. II and replace it by having better bass. I would probably say neither: Ascension sounds delightful and could be worth challenging, but it’s fitment is a terror. It’s had driver flex complaints and I personally struggled badly to match...

There’s a growing collection of channel matching/QC issues with Elysian. I wouldn’t buy one without the assurance of being able to independently graph it

Lee gotta work on his channel matching and QC though. Still not there yet

Love that you say this, but you only presented an opinion with no argument as well. Hit dogs will holler, as they say. One thing I got over quickly is: if there’s a brand I don’t click with, I don’t go into their specific thread and post to dunk on them. You can always hang out somewhere you...

I specifically am talking about that Monarch Mk II cause I’ve heard it myself and can confirm the graph IS accurate to what I heard vs the other sets graphed on MMagtech’s rig. I’ve heard all the sets in question and those sets listened to how they graphed. I’m not making any other statement...

Saber 3

One does not simply audiophile without compartmentalizing all of the things