[Ahmad313]

Identical housing spotted. Guess which is the $299 Astrotec AX60 and which is the $49.90 Tinaudio T2

The 2nd one is T2 ,

 

[HungryPanda]

The svara red is more v shaped than the T2, it has a more exaggerated bass signature whereas the T2 has beautiful mids

 

[Vin$ent]

I wonder what would be the nicest deals on cables under like $30?

Found some in slightly different price classes:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Eas...846-SE535-UE900-Headset-MMCX/32808026170.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New...-5mm-Balanced-Cable-Earphone/32828221107.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pr...772.html?spm=2114.12010612.0.0.446f2544IrBpGI

Or just go with something like the KZ upgraded cable?

By the way, you can get the NiceHCK Bro hybrids and a ~10$ L-jack silver plated cable together (same one comes with Svara RED?) for like $15 atm.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/201...lgo_pvid=b9185d9b-ce29-4c21-ba3e-7dc7521afb57

 

[chickenmoon]

The svara red is more v shaped than the T2, it has a more exaggerated bass signature whereas the T2 has beautiful mids

I just bought both for less than £50 in all, hopefully they are not just so so FOTMs.

 

[HungryPanda]

You will enjoy listening to them, I'm sure

 

[B9Scrambler]

The vent is in a different spot!

Identical housing spotted. Guess which is the $299 Astrotec AX60 and which is the $49.90 Tinaudio T2

They look noticeably different...similar design philosophy, but different.

Might as well toss the EMI-CI880 in there too if you think they look the same.

 

[groucho69]

You mean Tinaudio was inspired by another design? OMG does KZ know about this????

 

[vladstef]

You mean Tinaudio was inspired by another design? OMG does KZ know about this????

Oh boy, not again with this
Recently I learned that there are some "stock" IEM designs that manufacturers can use and modify it a little, add logo and whatnot, decide on the driver etc. I think that this happened with Tin Audio and Astrotec. EMI-CI880 is actually just a version of the stock design by a balanced armature driver manufacturer, that is, Estron makes their BA drivers and a stock IEM design called C630 while EMI just slaps their logo and increases price slightly and that's how we can buy EMI CI880. This is very present in earbud market but also other IEMs like Magaosi K3, Audbos K3, BGVP DM5 (this one added grills on the back) and probably many many more.
This is, however, different compared to what KZ did given that KZ uses their own designs.

All of this is some info that is not exactly easy to find, I dug through google images and some Chinese websites with translate...

 

[snip3r77]

How do you convert Coins to $6 at the seller shop?

 

[-brnz]

I have the VSD5s, which is similar to the VSD3s.

One common complaint I see about the Vsonic a lot is the cable going bad after a while. My 1st pair of VSD5s had a bad cable right out of the box and I had to exchange it.

With the ZS5, you have removable (and upgradeable) cables.

Gearbest has the ZS5 on sale for $13usd right now, which is a steal in comparison to the VSD3s.

Hi, how can I get ZS5 for this price? Any coupons? It's showing to me $19.

I'm also looking for the DZAT DF-10 and Memt X5, but can't decide between them.

My preferred musical style is Rock and my source is a smartphone, Xiaomi Mi6. Budget is around $20.

I'm more inclined to pick the DZAT cause I just felt in love with it's design

But I saw some people saying the X5 is good for Rock music.

I'm pretty noob and more than a month trying to figure out which one to pick.

Any opinions on that? Thanks and great 11.11 to all

 

[mbwilson111]

Oh boy, not again with this

I read it as an example of sarcasm used for comic effect.

Humor gets a bit lost on headfi sometimes.

 

[vladstef]

I read it as an example of sarcasm used for comic effect.

Humor gets a bit lost on headfi sometimes.

Yeah, one should be very careful. I used a smiley which should be indicative of his sarcasm, hopefully.

 

[mbwilson111]

I meant his humor... but I did not notice your green thing was a smiley...sorry

 

[Starway]

Apologies. I didn't mean anything malicious by my post of identical housings. I really don't know much about the industry, just saw it and thought some might find it interesting.

I'm still contemplating on purchasing the T2. HungryPanda keeps saying beautiful mids and I keep wanting to push the buy button.

 

[mbwilson111]

Apologies. I didn't mean anything malicious by my post of identical housings. I really don't know much about the industry, just saw it and thought some might find it interesting.

I'm still contemplating on purchasing the T2. HungryPanda keeps saying beautiful mids and I keep wanting to push the buy button.

Push that button...you know you want to! Trust the panda.

There was nothing wrong with your post. Those kinds of things are interesting.