Reviews by lucanato
Pros: Among 300$ iems I've tried are the most holographic and wide staging!
Sub bass, medium, and highs very fast
Great separation
Great texturing
Great dynamics
Very informative and detailed coming from fan2 and vortex
I can agree it could cost double the price
No needs for est tweeter you'll ear everything (but to be honest I didn't try est yet
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Great rendering of percussive and string, and brass instruments.
If an instrument is made of metal you can ear it ( it is not so with fan2).
No ba plastic timbre.
Musical (intended as conveying emotions and microdynamics not as warm\colored bass and medium bass)
Great fit (not long nozzle as fan2)
Suitable for playing classical music ( fan2 isn't).
Well recorded orchestra is so expansive.
Sold by the best seller I've found : Penon Audio
Sub bass, medium, and highs very fast
Great separation
Great texturing
Great dynamics
Very informative and detailed coming from fan2 and vortex
I can agree it could cost double the price
No needs for est tweeter you'll ear everything (but to be honest I didn't try est yet
)Great rendering of percussive and string, and brass instruments.
If an instrument is made of metal you can ear it ( it is not so with fan2).
No ba plastic timbre.
Musical (intended as conveying emotions and microdynamics not as warm\colored bass and medium bass)
Great fit (not long nozzle as fan2)
Suitable for playing classical music ( fan2 isn't).
Well recorded orchestra is so expansive.
Sold by the best seller I've found : Penon Audio
Hi this is my first review.
I'm an italian classical pianist and I worked also in a big band jazz orchestra in the past. I'm in to hifi from 1988, I listen in my home setup with directed heated 2 watt valve ampli and another el84 push-pull class a, and many high efficiency wide range speakers with a passive output transformer based modified DAC, I have also a Lenco 75s for vynil.
I've started playing with inear headphones during the last year (I was missing the Walkman epoque with my Aiwa walkman with superpermalloy head and aiwa earphones with amorphous diamond I owned when I was sixteen..) and I tried many IEMs always under 300$ since now.
Tried: Moondrop chu, Hzsound heart mirror og, Blon bl-05, Moondrop Kato, Tinhifi t2plus p1max panda, Etymotic mk-5, Ikko oh10, Tri i3pro, Imr ozar, Penon Fan2, and Vortex.
I kept only Chu, Vortex and Fan2, but recently I sold Fan2 for fitting problems.
I own also an overear Beyerdinamic t70p and Philips Fidelio x2hr.
I listen to all genres of music but I use classical music as reference to decide if a iem sounds natural and musical or not, the other genres are subordinated cause they are not useful to test the sound.
I can't own too much iems just to make a collection, if something doesn't play well everything, I sell it.
So I buy and sell very quickly sometimes.
I can recognize in few seconds if something is natural or simply fan sounding but not natural (as fan2), actually the most natural iem is Penon Vortex.
I told almost everything in the pro and cons about h50. The 100 hours of burn in completely change the out of the box sound.
I have to say that I didn't try h50 with any recent amp or dongle (only a little with my old Fiio Kunlun) cause I've sold ibasso dc03pro and questyle M12 and waiting for dc04pro and Cayin ru6 but my Motorola phone sound pretty good.
I rolled different tips and cables to see if I could overcome to the cons I have had with h50 but I couldn't.
I was excited by h50 at first with all these informations and holographic sound that make magically appears in the space all these objects (wow with pink Floyd) but the emphasis is more than anything else on the attack of all the sounds, not to the body not to the decay, so after few listening this was a "drugged" and flashy sound far from the effortless that natural instruments have in reality.
It's a pity that this fast sub bass was not preceded by a rich medium bass. Medium bass is so... cheap.. low quality not clear intubated as when you try to sing In a long corridor and you hear reflection of the walls, what a shame. Maybe some of you didn't heard this but already happened that I experienced some confused mid bass on Ian S2 cable and no one agreed with me so, who will be right? I don't know.
Piano solos are missing the warm and the fullness of the medium bass sound resulting a little thin with the add of sub bass.
Cello and violins were so well textured and you can feel the bow rubbing the strings but it was too intense too exaggerated and after few second you feel tired.
Yes maybe you can live with this if you are seeking for strong emotion and sensation and you don't seek for naturalness at every cost. But not me.
Returning to vortex you feel the information and stage decrease a lot but all is so natural and I can recognize the sound, the timbres I listen in live session and it's so cohesive sound, violins are so juicy and rightly energetic that I ask always to me, why are you seeking for something else?
Fan2 were also so beloved: a lot of coherence between all the drivers you can't distinguish when were ending DD and starting ba. The bass was so fast but creamy, elastic very fun, but h50 have more sub bass.I prefer a lot more the fan2 on bass and medium basses as the sub bass for me don't have to be too much pronounced. But fan2 were so strange in timbre and you can't obtained a real piano experience and I'm general they could not convey the material from which the instrument was made.You can't listen for metal and plucked instruments they result too much smoothed and mellow sounding. Electronic music with fan2 was hypnotic and also metal music. And it is also but in a different way with h50. But with metal you miss the bass energy and fullness of fan2 and distorted guitars become harsh.
So this is my attempt with h50 but it was very short!
I'm an italian classical pianist and I worked also in a big band jazz orchestra in the past. I'm in to hifi from 1988, I listen in my home setup with directed heated 2 watt valve ampli and another el84 push-pull class a, and many high efficiency wide range speakers with a passive output transformer based modified DAC, I have also a Lenco 75s for vynil.
I've started playing with inear headphones during the last year (I was missing the Walkman epoque with my Aiwa walkman with superpermalloy head and aiwa earphones with amorphous diamond I owned when I was sixteen..) and I tried many IEMs always under 300$ since now.
Tried: Moondrop chu, Hzsound heart mirror og, Blon bl-05, Moondrop Kato, Tinhifi t2plus p1max panda, Etymotic mk-5, Ikko oh10, Tri i3pro, Imr ozar, Penon Fan2, and Vortex.
I kept only Chu, Vortex and Fan2, but recently I sold Fan2 for fitting problems.
I own also an overear Beyerdinamic t70p and Philips Fidelio x2hr.
I listen to all genres of music but I use classical music as reference to decide if a iem sounds natural and musical or not, the other genres are subordinated cause they are not useful to test the sound.
I can't own too much iems just to make a collection, if something doesn't play well everything, I sell it.
So I buy and sell very quickly sometimes.
I can recognize in few seconds if something is natural or simply fan sounding but not natural (as fan2), actually the most natural iem is Penon Vortex.
I told almost everything in the pro and cons about h50. The 100 hours of burn in completely change the out of the box sound.
I have to say that I didn't try h50 with any recent amp or dongle (only a little with my old Fiio Kunlun) cause I've sold ibasso dc03pro and questyle M12 and waiting for dc04pro and Cayin ru6 but my Motorola phone sound pretty good.
I rolled different tips and cables to see if I could overcome to the cons I have had with h50 but I couldn't.
I was excited by h50 at first with all these informations and holographic sound that make magically appears in the space all these objects (wow with pink Floyd) but the emphasis is more than anything else on the attack of all the sounds, not to the body not to the decay, so after few listening this was a "drugged" and flashy sound far from the effortless that natural instruments have in reality.
It's a pity that this fast sub bass was not preceded by a rich medium bass. Medium bass is so... cheap.. low quality not clear intubated as when you try to sing In a long corridor and you hear reflection of the walls, what a shame. Maybe some of you didn't heard this but already happened that I experienced some confused mid bass on Ian S2 cable and no one agreed with me so, who will be right? I don't know.
Piano solos are missing the warm and the fullness of the medium bass sound resulting a little thin with the add of sub bass.
Cello and violins were so well textured and you can feel the bow rubbing the strings but it was too intense too exaggerated and after few second you feel tired.
Yes maybe you can live with this if you are seeking for strong emotion and sensation and you don't seek for naturalness at every cost. But not me.
Returning to vortex you feel the information and stage decrease a lot but all is so natural and I can recognize the sound, the timbres I listen in live session and it's so cohesive sound, violins are so juicy and rightly energetic that I ask always to me, why are you seeking for something else?
Fan2 were also so beloved: a lot of coherence between all the drivers you can't distinguish when were ending DD and starting ba. The bass was so fast but creamy, elastic very fun, but h50 have more sub bass.I prefer a lot more the fan2 on bass and medium basses as the sub bass for me don't have to be too much pronounced. But fan2 were so strange in timbre and you can't obtained a real piano experience and I'm general they could not convey the material from which the instrument was made.You can't listen for metal and plucked instruments they result too much smoothed and mellow sounding. Electronic music with fan2 was hypnotic and also metal music. And it is also but in a different way with h50. But with metal you miss the bass energy and fullness of fan2 and distorted guitars become harsh.
So this is my attempt with h50 but it was very short!
vandung2510
I enjoy reading this 
Never hurt to have another review, especially from someone who has musical experience. Also, it wouldn't hurt to have a few pictures in too 
Never hurt to have another review, especially from someone who has musical experience. Also, it wouldn't hurt to have a few pictures in too
lucanato
I thought it wasn't necessary as there are a lot of photo in the previous reviews... That I read a lot of time before buying them, but thanks for advice!
