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Mar 4, 2019 at 7:00 AM Post #1,712 of 3,338
Guys, here's another one discovered by @yuriv

Philips SHE8105 with slight mods

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/sou...odding-headphones.694963/page-4#post-14744462

Also, that is a great thread to get familiar with what you can do in terms of mods for iems, and to follow Yuriv's discoveries!

Apparently, what happens in the sound science subforum doesn’t stay in the sound science subforum. Lol. More than anything, it was posted in sound science as an invitation for others to reproduce my findings. I think the result sounds lovely, but that could just be the peculiar way I hear things, crowd-pleasing Harman IE target notwithstanding. Anyway, why bring this up in Crinacle’s excellent thread? It seems off topic. If anything, it belongs in a thread dedicated to budget IEMs, or IEM mods. Or maybe it should stay in sound science until the result can be verified.
 
Mar 4, 2019 at 7:01 AM Post #1,713 of 3,338
Please don't kill me, thanks

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I really enjoyed the read. I feel burn-in is different from what people think it really is, due to auditory memory being unreliable it take those 100s of hours to get the true impression people are hearing from IEMs. Similar to how we develop muscle memory I believe.
 
Mar 4, 2019 at 10:35 PM Post #1,715 of 3,338
Mar 11, 2019 at 12:17 AM Post #1,716 of 3,338
Really enjoyed the N8 review, thank you! I continue to be very happy with mine which I purchased some time ago, I think it has the plate+pinhole covering the DD, although it could be foil (I don't see much wrinkling that would normally appear on foil) I don't get much mid-bass muddiness if any. The bass on mine sounds more like Periodic Be than Campfire Vega if that means anything. The midrange and top end are much more balanced than either of those universals though (not rolled off like the Be and not peaky like the Vega). I imagine there is a lot of unit to unit variation with these due to the variations of internal volume size? Admittedly, I am a basshead. Anyway, keep up the good work.
 
Mar 11, 2019 at 1:04 PM Post #1,718 of 3,338
I wonder if you can get a review of some of the stuff from Fearless Audio
 
Mar 12, 2019 at 8:42 AM Post #1,720 of 3,338
+2
 
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