If we were not after perfection, we would buy a pair of $20 skullcandies, plug them into a $50 prepaid phone and be done with it.
No, we are here talking about $1.5k IEMs, $2k DAPs to plug them into, $.5k silver dragon butthole cables from dark side of the moon to carry the signal and an array of eartips to fine tune the sound. Make no mistake, we are seeking perfection.
Releasing a simple frequency response graph is not divulging state secrets. Some manufacturers have done it without going bankrupt, just like I've seen high end restaurants giving out recipes without anyone setting up shop across the street.
Ok, but seeking perfection is a nonsense, a human nonsense, we arise religions in the eternal pursue of perfection, and this perfection doesn’t exist, we and our world are not perfect and never will be...
Music is a about joy...you can seek your music signature, by trying several DAPs, cables, headphones, Eqs, from cheap to expensive to super expensive ones, but the joy is in trying and the music itself...if you seek the “end game” the “perfect match” or whatever you are like a Quijote (and gets angry in the way, and sputs fire against brands)
This hobby is about enjoy the ride, maybe in the end you can see that your first setup are the one for you, but who cares...it’s was fun anyway.
Seek without fear, maybe the cheap phone are better than the expensive one to you, or viceversa...maybe some of your impressions are placebo (imagine the burn in, cable effects, etc) but who cares if the joy is there in the experience...
By other way, we can’t force Campfire to reveal all his procedures, to open all his gates in order of being transparent to us, there are fierce competition between brands and this maybe works fine for us but doesn’t work for his business.
The thing to me is simple...I bought the Solaris Nº7 in a hype attack, without even a comment about his sound (because i love the Andromeda and get very interested in his “evolution “), and i don’t regret this leap of faith...this IEM is great to me, i have no complaints...
Somebody in Asia says there are “variance between units”, but most of the comments have been positive, then I think this issue is statistically disposable to me...
in many product threads are negative impressions and quality issues, but if I don’t buy every product with some reported failure, then i end buying nothing...
My rule to buy is:
-I have the money?
-there are good impressions/reviews? (More than the negative ones)
-The brand have a good customer service?
And i’m done...
This bla bla is only my honest opinion...obviously you can dislike it or insult it or whatever
Regards
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