Got the Rose North Forest in yesterday!
Some quick impressions after a few hours of listening and burn in. Pictured with tennmark whirlwinds (stock double flange tips were terrible for me).
Great find! For the price it’s really quite good, I don’t have many iem in $25 range but it’s certainly better than the Nicehck bro and everything I own under that price range. No sibilance and impressive amount of bass and sub-bass, wasn’t expecting that.. More tuned for fun so won’t work for every genre. Sound signature for me is a slightly warm, dark, L-shape with some treble roll off. Mids and highs are smooth but not too sparkly.
Tinaudio T2 is technically better in most aspects (clarity, soundstage, extended highs, vocals) except bass quantity. T2 bass is, however, not as loose and boomy as the north forest, which is why I’m looking forward to T2 Pro with its adjusted (hopefully linear) bass. Rose will have your head bobbing more though and a great overall value gem for the year so far. It doesn’t come with a case or a bunch of tips but not a big deal. Only real complaint for me is the cable which is microphonic, it needs a shirt clip (not included) to minimize that. Mmcx would be nice but I do like how light these earphones are without the extra hardware, just a braided cable or less microphonic one would be a big improvement.
I’d be curious to know from others how this compares with yersen fen-2000, zs10, and bgvp ds1 since I almost pulled the trigger on those during the last alie sale.