GuyDebord
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Im planning to write a review for the EM3-Pro's but it will take a month or possibly more. I am waiting for the pico slim (i have the alo rx and iqube) and the TWag cable, these customs are sensible, thus I want to take time to better describe their changes to amping and cabling.
What follows is just a first visceral view of my first weeks with them, so please take it like that!
February 22, 2010
EarSonics is a small specialist company based in France, near Montpellier. EarSonics is highly regarded in the French and European market as the best in the business, but for some reason, they are hardly referred to in Head-Fi. The EM3-Pro's are their flagship model, each monitor consists of 3 balanced armature drivers only! their cost is €744.15 +VAT (euros), so around the same as the JH13pro's.
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I can tell you now that Im in love with the EM3pro's, their sound signature is very distinct – unique shall I say – but I still cannot point to it, liquid and luxurious are two words that come to my mind, they are less monitor like as the JH13 are, I can just describe them as simply gorgeous musical instruments.
They both offer ultra high resolution and definition, but the highs and mids of the EM3pro's are possibly the best i have heard besides my 007's, the low notes are more harmonic, rich and expansive. In comparison, the jh13 bass seems dryer and more analytical, a bit to tight. The sense of space in the EM3pros is more analogue, in a good recording I can easily begin to measure the real space where instruments are being played.
In comparison with full size cans, I could say that the EM3pro could be the Beyer T1 and the JH13 the HD800's. One more musical and rich, the other more technical and precise.
I would say that for acoustic, classical, modern composition, jazz, vocals I unquestionably preffer the EM3pros, they render liquid gold with acoustic instruments, air instruments, percussions, especially piano and the way strings, violins an cellos are played, sometimes takes my breath away. However, the EM3pro's are more picky and did require around 200 hours of break in (wether or not you believe in it, I really noticed a substantial change as I played them). Its also important to note, that in comparison, the JH13 pro can be played straight of an ipod or a sophisticated amp and will consistently improve with light differences; the EM3pro's sound great out of my 7th gen ipod classic, but amped they enter another realm, with my tube amp, aqvox solid state, iqube, the EM3pro's are simply superb, they mate with each amp's signature to perfection which makes them very difficult to read. One thing is for sure, they are somehow more sensible than the JH13's.
So in a way and until now, the EM3pros have proven to be a bit less source independent than the JH13pros, but when amped, they render music in absolute and total decadence, they drown me in Laphroaig and liquid gold, a truly, truly superb custom!
PROOF THAT 3 DRIVERS CAN BE BETTER THAN 6! (at least to my ears)
*Please refer to my last.fm in my signature to check which music I have been testing with.
More to come....
What follows is just a first visceral view of my first weeks with them, so please take it like that!
February 22, 2010
EarSonics is a small specialist company based in France, near Montpellier. EarSonics is highly regarded in the French and European market as the best in the business, but for some reason, they are hardly referred to in Head-Fi. The EM3-Pro's are their flagship model, each monitor consists of 3 balanced armature drivers only! their cost is €744.15 +VAT (euros), so around the same as the JH13pro's.
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I can tell you now that Im in love with the EM3pro's, their sound signature is very distinct – unique shall I say – but I still cannot point to it, liquid and luxurious are two words that come to my mind, they are less monitor like as the JH13 are, I can just describe them as simply gorgeous musical instruments.
They both offer ultra high resolution and definition, but the highs and mids of the EM3pro's are possibly the best i have heard besides my 007's, the low notes are more harmonic, rich and expansive. In comparison, the jh13 bass seems dryer and more analytical, a bit to tight. The sense of space in the EM3pros is more analogue, in a good recording I can easily begin to measure the real space where instruments are being played.
In comparison with full size cans, I could say that the EM3pro could be the Beyer T1 and the JH13 the HD800's. One more musical and rich, the other more technical and precise.
I would say that for acoustic, classical, modern composition, jazz, vocals I unquestionably preffer the EM3pros, they render liquid gold with acoustic instruments, air instruments, percussions, especially piano and the way strings, violins an cellos are played, sometimes takes my breath away. However, the EM3pro's are more picky and did require around 200 hours of break in (wether or not you believe in it, I really noticed a substantial change as I played them). Its also important to note, that in comparison, the JH13 pro can be played straight of an ipod or a sophisticated amp and will consistently improve with light differences; the EM3pro's sound great out of my 7th gen ipod classic, but amped they enter another realm, with my tube amp, aqvox solid state, iqube, the EM3pro's are simply superb, they mate with each amp's signature to perfection which makes them very difficult to read. One thing is for sure, they are somehow more sensible than the JH13's.
So in a way and until now, the EM3pros have proven to be a bit less source independent than the JH13pros, but when amped, they render music in absolute and total decadence, they drown me in Laphroaig and liquid gold, a truly, truly superb custom!
PROOF THAT 3 DRIVERS CAN BE BETTER THAN 6! (at least to my ears)
*Please refer to my last.fm in my signature to check which music I have been testing with.
More to come....
