What sort of music you listening to ?
vocals oriented tracks hence why my main vocals iems are FI-BA-SS and Heaven VI both from FAD. the mids of these iems are magical and alluring. Despite having demoed countless of iems,
in my personal opinion, the mids of these aforementioned iems are
the best for my ears and vocals are realistic.
Heaven VI:
Slightly mid forward, but with the most natural presentation i have heard to date, stunning mids. Listening to Diana Krall in FLAC you can hear every detail rendered perfectly, every nuance, but never clinical or harsh. It sounds as if she's singing right in front of you as her vocals are so naturally portrayed. They don't throw detail at you, but every pluck of a guitar string, every breath a singer takes is heard. I hear you guys saying FAD IEM's sound organic, i now know why, I can honestly say i've never had an IEM that sounds so natural and real in timbre, and the only headphones that have interested me for a long time because of their natural sound are the Hifiman HE-6. by
@ostewart
One of the statements that FAD made about this earphone was that it is the first earphone to perfectly recreate human vocals. Now I have to say that this is a bit far but these present the midrange in a way that is so marvelous I do not care about their false statement. It is really lush, like really lush, I mean it defines lush. It has a good character while perhaps being slightly more generous in the upper mids, which really boosts this lushness. Timbre is beautiful, natural and well hitting, brass sounds really good especially. Vocals have just an amazing something to them that just is so attention capturing. No they are no perfectly recreated but they are very honest and have great emotion. These are not an earphone that gets easily congested but in the midrange I did feel just a few times everything was just struggling to keep up ever so slightly. by http://www.inearspace.co.uk/inearspace/Final_Audio_Design_Heaven_VI_Review.html
FI-BA-SS:
The midrange of the FI-BA-SS is even more interesting, reminding me of both the smooth-yet-detailed CK10 and the warmer, more liquid Ortofon e-Q5. The noticeable gain in bass impact and body over the CK10 makes the BA-SS sound warmer while retaining the crystal clarity of the Audio-Technicas. The texture and detail levels of the FADs are very high and the resulting transparency is simply off the scale – even the CK10 sounds slightly veiled next to the BA-SS. No other universal-fit earphone I’ve heard gives quite the same sense of ‘nakedness’ to the sound – with the BA-SS it’s simply you and the track (note: I didn’t say ‘the music’ because the BA-SS is hugely unforgiving of source material; only with well-recorded, mastered, and ripped material will it be ‘you and the music’). Combined with the excellent balance of the earphones, this transparency has a strange result – the BA-SS certainly qualifies to be called a refined earphone but at the same time it’s quite aggressive and has a ‘raw’ edge to it. by
@ljokerl
One thing that is shocking about the FI-BA-SS is in how raw and emotional it makes the music sound. I still remember sitting in a freezing hotel room somewhere in North East China during the midst of winter and it was minus 35 Celsius outside, and I was listening to Diana Krall wrapping that voice of hers around the lyrics of Walk On By on the FI-BA-SS off my brand new AK100 – the rawness of her emotions and the nuances of her voice really tugged at my heartstrings and sent shivers down my spine. I swear that I could feel myself tearing up. But then again, it could just be cabin fever from being snowed in… by
@Kiats
@Hi-Fi'er updated post!
