Great review! Doesn't sound like my cup of tea though, I lean warm rather than bright in my preferences! Elixir sounds like a better option.
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Redcarmoose
Thank-you!
Well, they are complementary. It would be like having a brighter fully resolving desk-top speaker experience in the den, then moving to the Elixir floor-standers in the living room. It’s not as hard to adjust as you would guess. There is nothing wrong with having complimentary signatures side by side. We tend to back off one signature after finding issues, then reverting back to our comfort zone. But there is an excitement to a brighter fully detailed response, that I wouldn’t ever want to part with.
Well, they are complementary. It would be like having a brighter fully resolving desk-top speaker experience in the den, then moving to the Elixir floor-standers in the living room. It’s not as hard to adjust as you would guess. There is nothing wrong with having complimentary signatures side by side. We tend to back off one signature after finding issues, then reverting back to our comfort zone. But there is an excitement to a brighter fully detailed response, that I wouldn’t ever want to part with.
Dsnuts
Excellent review my friend.
Redcarmoose
Thank-you.
FalseProphet
Sounds like what I am looking for, on the edge of being to bright with all the details, great staging, tight bass.
Redcarmoose
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Tansio Mirai was brave enough to place a treble shelf from 7Khz to 9Khz. It is lifting everything in that zone into incredible focus. So special. It will be copied by another manufacturer probably, but who knows if another will be able to get all the all the rest right? The air-ports are very big and change the stage. If the note weight wasn’t there, all would be lost, but they did that too! Even the bass notes have weight!
The thing is I’m finished with the review, I don’t have to listen to the Sands anymore but I must! I can’t get away from it’s charms. I should be working on other reviews. But you need a warm cable and DAP or it may not work.
Tansio Mirai was brave enough to place a treble shelf from 7Khz to 9Khz. It is lifting everything in that zone into incredible focus. So special. It will be copied by another manufacturer probably, but who knows if another will be able to get all the all the rest right? The air-ports are very big and change the stage. If the note weight wasn’t there, all would be lost, but they did that too! Even the bass notes have weight!
The thing is I’m finished with the review, I don’t have to listen to the Sands anymore but I must! I can’t get away from it’s charms. I should be working on other reviews. But you need a warm cable and DAP or it may not work.
FalseProphet
Would you say that its bass has a simillar speed and details as that of planars?
Redcarmoose
To me the bass of each driver type/style is subtlety different. Though the bass here is very controlled and careful, yet carries a good note weight. It has surprisingly good speed and texture to become ultimately satisfying in the end!
FalseProphet
Did you try the Sands with EDM, how it copes with it? I enjoy EDM quite a bit, in previous review it was mentioned thatbit is pretty unforgiving for such music.
Redcarmoose
Really the KMFDM album investigation (here) does almost exactly parallel EDM as far as dynamics. The style of instruments used is pretty much identical to the EDM sub-grenre. KMFDM is Industrial, though maybe slightly different in that the album is a set of “Dub” remixes? Still I did listen to strictly EDM songs and personality found them enjoyable. The Sands has a wonderful pace and even though you may not think there is enough bass for EDM, it seems to work out. IMO Mainly because there is a satisfying style of bass.
Redcarmoose
It’s really hard to understand that even though there is the 7Khz to 9Khz, there is also a bass boost. People tend to generalize IEMs due to what they have heard, here this IEM has no sound twin in reproduction as far as tuning. That uniqueness is partially the special thing this review talks about.
FalseProphet
Thank you. You say that I might think that there is not enough bass, are you describing it without bass boost swich on?
Redcarmoose
Not at all. There is plenty of bass. I don’t use the dip switches. Because you never heard the signature your thinking bright. And it is on the side of bright, but there is prominent bass too. Not heavy foggy bass, but perfect controlled pace creating bass.
FalseProphet
How you describing its bass reminds me my other IEM which I sold and miss, looking at the graph you wouldn't say that it has enough juice but it had and bass was there when it was caled upon which was satisfying and surprising, such a nice contrast, it was fast ant tight. When an IEM has to much bass and all over the place, then it is sort of predictable and not that surprising.
Redcarmoose
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It is like having different rooms in your house. Meaning you walk into the living room and it may be dark, you walk into the kitchen and you can see everything and it is bright. You enjoy both rooms for their mood, nether is right or wrong.
I don’t use EQ, I get sound design through tips, cables and DAPs. The Sands response is perfect for me with the right cable and DAP. I don’t want anything else, that’s why 5 stars.
It is like having different rooms in your house. Meaning you walk into the living room and it may be dark, you walk into the kitchen and you can see everything and it is bright. You enjoy both rooms for their mood, nether is right or wrong.
I don’t use EQ, I get sound design through tips, cables and DAPs. The Sands response is perfect for me with the right cable and DAP. I don’t want anything else, that’s why 5 stars.
FalseProphet
Need to take a shot then
Could be nice complimentary set.
Could be nice complimentary set.
Redcarmoose
I just went and listened to Flowjob “Fall From Space” and it was absolutely incredible. More imaging even. So there is your full EDM! Great bass!
headydad
Great read friend! I am savoring the excitement around this set. TSMR deserves this recognition.
Redcarmoose
Thank-you so much.
In truth, the whole write-up was actually pretty easy!
In truth, the whole write-up was actually pretty easy!
