Hey guys, I got some great advice from this thread the last time I was getting IEMs, can you help me out again maybe?
I haven't been keeping up with cIEMs or IEMs in general, I got Musicmaker TK12 last year and I've been largely satisfied with them, however the jack is starting to give out and once IEMs start having cable problems in my experience they just start breaking every other week with heavy use, so I'm already looking for a replacement. Can you recommend any good ones in that price range (80-100E)?
My experience with the TK12 was that they were too sibilant and chewed through certain vocals, the highs are a bit too sharp and they make cymbals and snares sound very unnatural (although very clear). I was told that Musicmaker might have changed the tuning/speakers over the years, and that newer models are more sibilant, but I cannot confirm or deny this. The vocals, while some of them are warped, sound very forward surprisingly, so it's not like the mids are bad, I think the highs were just tuned way too sharp, maybe in an effort to make them sound more appealing at first listen or in A/B tests. The bass was plentiful, not bloated, but it lacked that texture and layering that I got from something like RHA MA750 that I had before. So ultimately, something with slightly more refined bass and less sibilant, harsh high end? Would TK13 be ideal, or the Magaosi K3 Pro? Those were the top dogs in that price segment back when I was buying IEMs, but I was told to go for the TK12 because of my preference for soundstage and bass. Funnily enough, I was most impressed by clarity and instrument separation of the TK12, but not too much by the bass texture and quality, and the sounstage was rather average compared to the RHA MA750 and even the Sennheiser Momentum in-ears I had before. Does the K3 pro have a wider soundstage? Any new IEM in this price segment over the last year I should look into?
Thanks a bunch guys, without you I wouldn't know where to look in the Chinese IEM world...
