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Hi all. I'm very intrigued by the Timeless, so much so that I bought it on Amazon, but I cancelled my order not long afterwards because I am extremely sensitive to channel imbalances and I both heard and saw (on graphs from various reviewers) that this can be an issue with these IEMs. I'm now deciding between this one and the Tri i3 Pro, but I'm leaning towards the latter because the potential for lopsided presentation is just too much of a dealbreaker for me. Anyone care to weigh in? Is the channel imalance bad or did all of the big reviewers just get sent lemons?
Hi, I was one of the early buyers and I can tell you, for me on my set there is no issue at all. Yes there were a couple of comments but by and large, this thread is full of owners who are overjoyed with this little stunner. If there were persistent QC and Inbalance issues, this thread would be full of negative comments, by owners about it and it's simply not here. I've read this entire thread and IMHO what is here is a lot of chatter thats been spun up based on a few comments, many of which are made be those have never heard them, but speculate because of those comments.
I get it, none of us want a lemon but the power of suggestion can be an overcoming force causing to go looking for things that aren't there. Case in point: Read that section of this thread above.
How would you test for channel imbalance without a measuring device? I'm suspecting mine have a little, but i'm also suspecting i'm hearing ghosts because someone's mentioned it.
@DeJaVu replies with a link where one can test for inbalance. Moments later,
@Fat Larry responds, back in love with his Timeless, having chased away those ghosts at that website. We've all done it, I have at least, been taken by a suggestion, gone looking for something that doesnt exit, convince my self that it does, then realized it doesn't......
I've read every review I could find, watched every YouTube Vid there is and the overwhelming majority of owners and reviewers are blown away by how good these are. Go through the YouTube Videos and just read the comments. They're full of praise from owners, many of whom don't participate here on HF. In my opinion, there's no problem here. There may be a couple of instances but it's safe to say that hundreds of units have been sold if not thousands and QC issues are not being widely reported. That tells me something .... it's pretty low risk.
I've owned lots of planars and can unequivocally state that these punch WAY above their weight by orders of magnitude. The good news is, Amazon has a generous return policy, so if you pick up a set there, and are unhappy, you can off load them again. I think the risk is negligible, but only you can decide that for yourself.
