I love these iems, but they are my first of this quality, so I'm more of a noob here.
As mentioned by others, they can be a hint bright, but nothing a little eq didn't fix. I think it's not so much the strength of the highs, but rather the abundance of detail. Extra drivers seems to make much more of a difference here than in home speakers.
I haven't used the others from KZ, but I personally find these to have a much more flat curve than their reputation indicates. While the curve starts fairly flat, the speakers respond quickly to just a bit of eq. For me, this makes them a perfect multi-use headphone. No matter the track, I can easily make it sound just right. They start a bit brittle, but the dynamic driver became pleasantly warm after a week.
I'm testing primarily with the quad dac in my new LG G8 Thinq, listening to either 16 bit or 24 bit flac. Many genres and film soundtracks. Classical, most forms of electronic, rock, hiphop, r&b, soul, industrial, etc. No matter what, a little eq and these pleasantly bring details I've never heard.
They need the attention to feel that good. If I move from deadmau5 to Julie London, I'm opening the eq. I use Rocket Player for my own files, which lets me assign eq profiles to tracks or albums. I do wish I could do that with Tidal, especially with these.
As mentioned by others, they can be a hint bright, but nothing a little eq didn't fix. I think it's not so much the strength of the highs, but rather the abundance of detail. Extra drivers seems to make much more of a difference here than in home speakers.
I haven't used the others from KZ, but I personally find these to have a much more flat curve than their reputation indicates. While the curve starts fairly flat, the speakers respond quickly to just a bit of eq. For me, this makes them a perfect multi-use headphone. No matter the track, I can easily make it sound just right. They start a bit brittle, but the dynamic driver became pleasantly warm after a week.
I'm testing primarily with the quad dac in my new LG G8 Thinq, listening to either 16 bit or 24 bit flac. Many genres and film soundtracks. Classical, most forms of electronic, rock, hiphop, r&b, soul, industrial, etc. No matter what, a little eq and these pleasantly bring details I've never heard.
They need the attention to feel that good. If I move from deadmau5 to Julie London, I'm opening the eq. I use Rocket Player for my own files, which lets me assign eq profiles to tracks or albums. I do wish I could do that with Tidal, especially with these.
