The only complaint I have with the Z1R is the recessed mid (250 hz to about 8-900 hz) making listening to male vocal somewhat unsatisfactory. If you raise the volume then everything becomes too much, and I hate eq.

Thanks, it looks like some kind of a snake skin. I have three face plates already.

What material exactly is the dragon skin? And can one buy them/

Yes, I own the Utopia, they are different. At the moment I prefer iem more.

Seeing that you just received your Erlkonig, a word of advice or suggestion is that if I have to do it all over again, I will put a screen cover the tip where the steel smash is. The one I recommend is the one from Final Audio. It is a very thin and fine screen almost like sheer material but is...

Well the price is only US$230.00 if that is pricey. It is just a fraction of many name brand cables like effect audio, PW cable etc. As for make up, it is a combination of gold plated pure silver, silver, gold, palladium alloy and single crystal OCC copper. The sound on blind test, sounds...

Well I've been listening to my A8000 and the Luna for two months now. I will not be writing a review on either as there are a number of them posted already but I will write a A8000 vs Luna especially in terms of micro comparison (meaning 10 to 20 seconds at a time while they are both tarry in...

Are those natively recorded DSD 512 files or are they upsampled from lower source? Because there are really not that many natively recorded DSD512 releases, at least not 800 files. Another way to test them is to send them to me and I will load them into my SP2K and test them:wink:

The conventional wisdom has it that you match two pieces of audio equipment from the opposite side of the warm-cold dimension so they can balance each other’s weaknesses out, ie a warm phone with a bright cable or dap, or a bright dap/dac with a warm phone etc. However, the SP2000 is an...

That is exactly my point. Five posts in response to my question and none stated that electrostatic sounds better just because because it is electrostatic but they sound better because of something else.

Is there a consensus or some kind of general agreement that electrostatic driver as treble drivers out perform other platforms? I.e. DD, BA, Planner etc as far as IEM is concern. The past two years have seen a number of electrostati/piezo implementations of this technology like the Khan...

I use an after market four cores cable and I like it a little better than the stock cable with heavier body even though the stock cable is one of the best cable as stock cable goes. One word of caution though if you are cable rolling, try to pin down a cable that you like with the Erlkonig fast...

Personally LPGD may be too bright or corse for me, LPGT is much better though

Ha Ha, if you want to be concrete about it let me clarify, solid gold as oppose to gold plated, and is referred to the casing, just like the current Erlkoing's shell is made of solid silver, and obviously not talking about the whole phone, but I admitt it does take a little inferring;-) But on...

Very well said as I know most of their Erlkonig orders come from Asia. It sounds like VE is making the last batch LE without a change of sound character. We'll see.

I want the next edition to be in solid gold.

Yohoo!!!! My Erlkonig is obsolete. Thank you VE for making a non LE Erlkonig LE. I truly believe what you have is a classic. @aaf evo please let me know whenever you want to let them go. The fact remain is that you still can buy the LE Erlkonig now but the OG Erlkonig is gone forever. Toaster...

Ha Ha you don‘t know who Jude is and you are in Headfi. You should find out and watch some of his videos prior to Can Jam.

Rose Gold, Oynx, stock, for your eyes only

Thanks for the link. Nice review. I don’t know if I agree with the statement that the A8000 doesn’t match well with clean daps though as I find my A8000 sounds very well with my AK2000ss. I have just completed 250 hours of burn in on both of my A8000 and Luna and will share my thoughts on them soon.

Welcome to the Asylum. For your information, I also bought the rose gold and the black Onyx face plates. Thought I was done then I went ahead and bought two more iems (A8K and Luna). I am hopelessly locked up for life.

‘We have spent countless time and effort on this (Roon feature) and are still planning on adding support (Roon feature when they become available) soon,’

You cannot fix a bending 2-pins on a cable with a plier? Let me show you how........:wink:

I also have the FiBaSS and the A8000. I am burning in the Dunu Luna atm, when it is done, one thing I want to do is to compare transparency between all this iems and also the Erlkonig. The FiBaSS is indeed the first single BA iem that I find to be extremely transparent. Final did a great job.