What issues are cropping up, besides @HiFiHawaii808 battery, that need MT or Brise attention?
Brise Audio FUGAKU - The world's first Ultimate Portable Audio System
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No resets can be done from the user side at this point. Mine had this same issue and my dealer contacted Brise immediately and it is an known issue and they have a firmware update to the amplifier module. Had a replacement sent by the in less than a week.
I heard an increased amount of noise in my unit. Brise re-did calibration and fixed it.
Also they found a bent clip that's holding the PCB to the case inside my unit. They thought someone opened it up. But I have been in possession of this unit at all time, from the moment it was delivered to MT. I was personally at MT when the first batch of Fugaku arrived from Japan via FedEx. I literally took this unit out of the FedEx package myself. Then the unit moved directly to the custom Pelican case that I've made for it. And I have never dropped it or damaged it otherwise.
Strange issue. Perhaps something happened during transportation from Japan. I am not sure. Brise said they have made an updated design of the mechanism which secures the PCB to the case, and they have updated my unit to the latest design when performing the re-calibration. They also assured me that the updated design is purely to better detect if the unit has been opened up before, and has no influence on the sound quality. So other early Fugaku owners please rest assured.
Killedkella
100+ Head-Fier
I had the absolute pleasure to have the opportunity to listen to this set today at our local meet-up
I must say I'm not sure what I was expecting, and its difficult to recollect all of my impressions but one of the standout features was how deep and smooth the bass response was, it felt almost like an out of body type of sound and rumble. I've described many iems in the past as having "sub-woofer" like bass but this is the most apt description for the Fugaku.
I must say I'm not sure what I was expecting, and its difficult to recollect all of my impressions but one of the standout features was how deep and smooth the bass response was, it felt almost like an out of body type of sound and rumble. I've described many iems in the past as having "sub-woofer" like bass but this is the most apt description for the Fugaku.
Gnofnaik
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Fugaku at the Shanghai Headphones Expo was mind-blowing! Even though the room was unexpectedly hot and stuffy because of the warm weather and no AC, I was still super impressed. The sound quality was insane, and the team there was absolutely awesome!
sofastreamer
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would love to hear it, but at this price point it has to be at least working flawless from the very beginning. look what sennheiser does for the price....
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I had the absolute pleasure to have the opportunity to listen to this set today at our local meet-up
I must say I'm not sure what I was expecting, and its difficult to recollect all of my impressions but one of the standout features was how deep and smooth the bass response was, it felt almost like an out of body type of sound and rumble. I've described many iems in the past as having "sub-woofer" like bass but this is the most apt description for the Fugaku.
Im low key envious that you got to audition this but im more envious if thats your cat in your profile pic!
Cheers man!
jawicedman
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Mine just landed and I'm half way across the country. Very excited to hear it in my own space.
Edit: spent and afternoon listening; nothing I have heard before comes close. Pitch black background, excellent dynamic range, vocals and midrange are truly top of the line. Placement is also excellent. The bass is present in spades and with good definition. The only thing that I picked up on that is different from the rest of the stable is the short decay of instruments. But ever so slightly. Apparently Brise had magic elves on payroll.
Edit: spent and afternoon listening; nothing I have heard before comes close. Pitch black background, excellent dynamic range, vocals and midrange are truly top of the line. Placement is also excellent. The bass is present in spades and with good definition. The only thing that I picked up on that is different from the rest of the stable is the short decay of instruments. But ever so slightly. Apparently Brise had magic elves on payroll.
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jawicedman
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It's been a few weeks with the Fugaku; during that time, I cancelled my Fulgrim and my search for any other IEM's. It's pointless. IMO this is the best IEM there is and because of how 'transparent' brise has their tuning, it brings out the subtle characteristics of the source even more.
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Enjoy! I've had mine for just over 7 months and they just do not get old. A constant smile on my face and happy ears every moment with these.
Seems like the Hex is the latest hype train IEM and it will be on par with the Fugaku. It also costs significantly less, or that would be the case, if the the seller that's the closest wouldn't be in the UK, i know that Eliseaudio only quotes the real price (bought my CP622B from them), which gives it with 8k€ +25-30% another absolutely insane pricetag.
The recent pricings of uber-TOTL IEM's is just ridiculous in my opinion, the manufacturers can just slap any price on it and people will buy it. I thought my APX SE was over the top expensive (and for me it was), since i needed to sell two other "normal priced" TOTL IEM's which i owned.
Even the Immanis does not cost more than 10k€.
Nevermind me ranting, i'm excited to hear (hopefully both of them) at Highend. I really hope (for my wallet) that i don't like any of those two much more than my APX SE. Even if i do, i'll probably just laugh and move on.
The recent pricings of uber-TOTL IEM's is just ridiculous in my opinion, the manufacturers can just slap any price on it and people will buy it. I thought my APX SE was over the top expensive (and for me it was), since i needed to sell two other "normal priced" TOTL IEM's which i owned.
Even the Immanis does not cost more than 10k€.
Nevermind me ranting, i'm excited to hear (hopefully both of them) at Highend. I really hope (for my wallet) that i don't like any of those two much more than my APX SE. Even if i do, i'll probably just laugh and move on.
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The bad news is some of my friend who have APX SE sold it to fund HEX
From my perspective, Hex is currently the peak of IEM performance basically setting a new table for a higher than current IEM summit tier together with Fugaku.
When people say it’s on par with Fugaku, I would definitely agree. It basically one up level from the technicality of APX. Which I think is still better technicality than Fugaku.
But I can say one thing that Fugaku excels and even not achieved on Hex is the placement and spacing between instruments and vocals. You do get a clean and distinct separation between sounds on Hex but it’s tightly packed together to sound like an IEM.
If you appreciate the headphone like experience on the go then you should like Fugaku more than Hex since you already have immanis. Anyway immanis setup is less than 10K?
What’s this hex? can someone link a thread to it on headfi?
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