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Any recomendations that has the same sound quality & sound signature with the Xiaomi pistons 2.0 but with a stronger bass??
KZ ZS1 - the most unique of the bunch, a bassy earphone that feels like you are listening to a song while being inside the studio that is recording it. They have surprising amount of soundstage and give most of your music a warm blanked of bass that makes music sound a lot more envolving.
I picked out some more tracks (Ayo) with natural bass, not electronic bass, the xe800 sound cold and artificial whilst the G3s have plenty of warmth and carry the full bass impact. They're not bass canons like say Banjos but there is bass in the mix.
The eartips I'm using are the large comply rounded so they make the earphones resemble Michael Jackson's afro circa the Jackson 5 days.
vidal, since you've given me so much valuable advise in the past i'll give you some--never recommend "ayo" to anyone.
i did listen to the g3 further on bass-forward tracks (sane stuff like jaco and stanley clarke) and they're kinda schizophrenic--at times the bass impact is there and at others it seems to disappear--i'm thinking perhaps slight nuances of fit and tips have a big effect on these. staging and detail remain very impressive
Are we talking the Nigerian-German singer Ayo, I take it you're not a fan then?
It was one of her tracks, 'Down on my knees', that I was told to use when setting up my car's subwoofer and I've used it ever since as a reference track. Only like some of her stuff mind not all.
This is the thing that took me ages to sort out with the G3 some listening sessions they seemed flat, then the next they'd come alive. Since swapping to large foams I've always got the sweet spot.
the ayo i heard was some crazed rapper on spotify--i'm sure your ayo is a lovely person and mean her no disrespect
Ah yes, that's a Chris Brown track called Ayo, just found it and I agree terrible. As far removed from my Ayo as it's possible to get, she's this one: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZOJsIlAgpE
(added better audio version)
i just got back from a ten hour road trip during which my wife and kid insisted on listening to gangster rap, so i'm a little raw...your ayo is much better...
in any event, what i think is going on with the g3 is that they're hyper-responsive to impedance/source--i.e. when i played them from my (high powered) desktop rig they sounded very bass-shy and anemic; when i drove 'em with my mobile, they had much more low end oomph and, oddly, enough, seemed louder--very strange
A new beast should be coming out in February for 99 dollars from echobox audio called the traveler which is made from solid titanium housing and peek diaphragm. Build to last and should blow away everything in the price range
check the earbuds round-up thread. There was also a review in the front page of head-fi.So I (think I--drunkenly?) ordered the K's 500 Ohm earbud/phones (aliExpress), has anyone heard/read anything about these!?
I was scrolling page by page through the best sub-100 thread here, and well... this seems like less work.
I've got anywhere from 1 to 12 days before they show up and I get to decide for myself, only I'm hoping to probably sell them (as I didn't mean to buy them) and purchase a bunch of other headphones!
the finder is the midrange iem, the travler is smaller housing , flagship uses titanium housing as well and removable cable and peek diaphragm and cost 400A new beast should be coming out in February for 99 dollars from echobox audio called the traveler which is made from solid titanium housing and peek diaphragm. Build to last and should blow away everything in the price range
Sounds as if it's the same as their Finder (ti body, peek diaphragm) which is going for $300 on Amazon. Maybe they're rebadging it at a more realistic price point.