brsdrgn
500+ Head-Fier
That's why I'm hereTrying all sorts of audio gear is what makes this hobby fun (and expensive). That's why many people hang around KZ threads and threads like this one.
It may not be as good as your best pair of iems but it's still fun to try something new
When I started to be interested in audio equipments (and I still remember it started in the moment when I tried my friend's Sony mp3 player with an entry level Sony headphones and heard the details in the song I was listening with my Samsung D900i with the headphones came out of its box ) so it was more than 11 years ago... I joined the forums and started to read about reviews, terminologies, articles etc. I was looking at those expensive IEMs with an admiration and I guess they were around 500$ or more which was way above my budget at that time from very well-known brands like Shure, Sony etc. And I was thinking what an expensive hobby is that! I would accept that you need to pay a lot get a decent sounding IEM at that time. So, I was collecting money to pay such a big amount for a entry level decent sounding IEM and I was still loving it.
I remember that I was kind of a bass-head at the beginning and my daily IEM was Audio Technica Cks1000 limited edition(it was a freaking looking very punchy bassy IEM with a sibilance penetrating through my ears ) . I was loving it until my friend from the University asked me to order Xiaomi Piston for him from Ali. If I'm not wrong, I purchased Cks1000 for about 199$ and Piston2 was only 17$ at that time. The day it came I was underestimating this IEM as there weren't any good sounding IEM at this price level but out of curiosity, I asked my friend if I could try them after he opened the box. I was literally shocked that it was sounding just like Cks1000 without even sibilance. He was asking if sth wrong but I didn't want him to know that Piston sounds better than my expensive headphones... So, from that day I started to think if they were charging people more than they should.
A year or two later Xiaomi came up with an Hybrid headphones and I remember that hybrid IEMs were pretty expensive also and Xiaomi Hybrid was just about 25$. I purchased it and I wasn't disappointed and I liked it more than Sennheiser IE8.
So, I'm glad Chi-Fi evolved and got better and better for the money you pay for those IEMs. It's good that there's a competition on the market and we as the customers are winning from that competition by getting better sounding IEMs for such cheap prices...
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