willowbrook
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Wow, is it just me or the andros sensitive to moisture...little dews have formed on top of the nozzle after a few hours of listening lol
Wow, is it just me or the andros sensitive to moisture...little dews have formed on top of the nozzle after a few hours of listening lol
This happened to my Aluminium Kaiser 10 too. Probably due to cold room temperature and thus some water vapour in ear canal condense on the metallic nozzle, since it's a good heat conductor.
Hope there's no long term effect on IEM performance and more importantly, ear health, since warmth and moisture promotes microbe growth.
Just don't let the condensation seeps into the holes.
Mine happened recently. then 1 side got softer than the other side. I was going to send for repair but after i left it for a few hours the sound returned to normal.
Wow, is it just me or the andros sensitive to moisture...little dews have formed on top of the nozzle after a few hours of listening lol
Would love to hear about more suggestions for portable or semi-portable DAC/amp setups that have zero hiss (The ifi black label seems interesting but it would be useful to have more options to compare). No Mojos please, not my type and heard too many people say they hiss a bit.
The Andromeda is so revealing that only really clean sources will do.
scary...I am definitely going to check for condensation every hour now. Only happens when I'm in a room with temp under 70
Would love to hear about more suggestions for portable or semi-portable DAC/amp setups that have zero hiss (The ifi black label seems interesting but it would be useful to have more options to compare). No Mojos please, not my type and heard too many people say they hiss a bit.
The Andromeda is so revealing that only really clean sources will do.
Another choice is... an iPhone! For real! Ken has said he tunes his IEMs to sound good through an iPhone and just keeps scaling up from there. Personally, I find the iPhone with Andromeda to be pretty damn resolving and spacious, but of course, it is a very limited dac/amp, so it is not top-tier by any means. Things are still a little smoothed over, and there is some glare in the upper-midrange and lower treble, but I hardly miss my V2+ with just my iPhone. Sounds that good! Also, the background is near pitch black (exception being occasional signal interference). Overall... iPhone 6 is a very clean and respectable source for Andromeda if youre in a pinch (or lazy lol).