CCA CA10 SURVIVALIST REVIEW
Why survivalist? Cause i need to do it AS FAST as i can to save my hearing sanity.
(to help them, i use Xduoo Bal2 dongle+Kato SPC cable+Starlines eartips)
Ok, firstly...it was the CRA I was suppose to test, not these...i don't know why this fall on me...its like a second TRIPOWIN TP10 dystopia....but less violent.
So were into ol'chifi experiment here..where some tuner find a way to create artificial clarity adding as much BA as he can. And the revolution is being able to add dampening filters or tubes to perhaps make it smoother....
Man....OK...let's do it PROS and CONS to make it faster:
PROS:
-Kinda High resolution
-Transparency
-Imaging
-Upper treble snap-brilliance
-Fast brainless attack
CONS:
-Apart upper treble, everything is tamed in impact, snap, grip
-this is a tamed shout fest
-the bass is boomy-shouty as f and have zero extension-rumble-wtv
-Resolution is primitive, fuzzy, vague in affirmative definition
-vocal are like...i think about auto-tune, is it a good sign?
-dynamic is so berserk in amplitude balance...what the F is going on? why this tom is way louder than this...arg
-boxy BA fest too...but hey, their 5 of them!
-timbre is just so wrong and how say, texture can have peak here so....
-about texture...we wonder sometime if its distortion or real sound
-forget about note weigth apart this shouty bass wannabe thump
-forget about sparkle, resonance, decay too, its dry romanticism here
-space btw instrument is like 1mm, but its there...
-everything feel distached yet we call it good imaging
-you need to be an audiophile with ALOT of humility to accept this ride
-KZ will surely never want to share me a review unit cause of this survivalist sound impressions
OK, that's it....10min of it is too much, ya i write this listening to it fo'real! Ok, now its not in my ears I can write with more focus...
I do think some people can enjoy this kinda defective X-Ray like IEM if they don't give a single F about timbre, tone and tonal balance, attack control-decay-snap, about weight and density of timbre, about musicality as a whole, about bass extension, about everything that make music enjoyable.
Thank you for reading.