Astell&Kern beyerdynamic AK T8iE Review (First Impressions from IFA 2015)

[shotgunshane]

As someone who has never heard a beyerdynamic headphone, what is the beyer house sound?

 

[Arttt]

on the bright side, detailed , spacious.
Except  Dt150(dark and warm) and flagship T1 and T5p , those are different beasts.  Thick sound , with lots of body in the mids , smooth but very detailed treble. 
 
Lowend depends on the model , some Beyer are treble focused, some are mids focused, and some got plenty of bass ( like dt990 and dt770)
 
Hmm , since AK T8iE will be using Tesla technology driver , i expect sound to be very reviling, spacious, with smooth yet very detailed treble and lots of mids, probably on a bright side...

 

[lookingforIEMs]

I have plenty of experience with IEMs, thank you.  So, I respectively disagree.  Now, I grant you that everyone has their preferences and biases but the IE800 soundstage is pretty good.  Better than others I have owned and auditioned in that same price point. 

Understood.


It just doesn't rank very highly at all in terms of soundstage for me.






Still, would love to hear this new beyer iem! Also hope there's a beyer-only version haha

 

[speakerphone]

Listened to this few days ago, and it sounds litte warm to me.
Also it fits very well in my ears.

@ohotonge : that picture is mine. Thanks for sharing that

 

[briskly]

As someone who has never heard a beyerdynamic headphone, what is the beyer house sound?

Their IEMs seem to be tuned much warmer and more bass leaning than their full-sized models, which tend to a brighter, more peaky sound.

 

[rattie]

awww, couldn't they just make them even more pricier?! :Z

 

[audionewbi]

1600 AUD is just too much. As much as I love my dynamic drivers I don't think paying for an iem more than 1K is a wise move considering all the better option available for us at that price point.

 

[Addicted2Riding]

Dynamic drivers are the BEST. Delivers beautiful acoustics to your ear while still being versatile and small. 

 

[Aero Dynamik]

Heard them recently...about 5 minuetes.
not bad...that's the first came to my mind. They looked nice(the picture is not mine. My cellphone picture is terrible)

A thousand dollars not bad experience! No sh-t, I just got to have them!

 

[Aero Dynamik]

  Dynamic drivers are the BEST. Delivers beautiful acoustics to your ear while still being versatile and small. 

Oh, and I always thought BA drivers were the best!? Thanks for letting us know!

 

[pitchblack]

   
It's often uncomfortable to glasses wearers, increases microphonics, and fights back every time I try to put on a pair of IEMs that have memory wire. It's a personal preference, but memory wire is the devil.

I cannot live without memory wire (on the SE846) but maybe I will with the T8iE...

 

[pitchblack]

The Senn IE800 was one - if not the best sounding IEM I had, but there were a few problems. No good fit in the ear, extreme microphonics in the upper cable, no comply foam fit or other 3rd party alternative. Then he had to go and I did go with the 846. If the T8iE is on par or beyond the IE800 then I will give them a shot. The only problem is the swiss importer he always put an 20% price increase on every AK product because he can (based on the german/EU price).

 

[pitchblack]

There will be another love child by end of September (aside from the T8iE) from AK and Beyerdynamic:
http://www.modernhifi.de/interview-beyerdynamic-astell-kern/
 
"AND HOW DOES IT CONTINUE? For the future a bit COMMON planned?
Wolfgang Luckhardt: Beyerdynamic and Astell & Kern will continue to collaborate. We already have another product in the pipeline."

 

 

[Aero Dynamik]

  The Senn IE800 was one - if not the best sounding IEM I had, but there were a few problems. No good fit in the ear, extreme microphonics in the upper cable, no comply foam fit or other 3rd party alternative. Then he had to go and I did go with the 846. If the T8iE is on par or beyond the IE800 then I will give them a shot. The only problem is the swiss importer he always put an 20% price increase on every AK product because he can (based on the german/EU price).

Hm... Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

 

[vnmslsrbms]

  Hm... Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

He did say best sounding!  Not best fitting.  In fact the loose fit is part of what gives it the nice soundstage.