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credits to @Barra for his assistance in setting up the tour
AU/NZ CIEM Demo Tour, Featuring:
- Harmony 8 Pro (€925*) – Solid Fill Silicone, 8BA, 3-Way, Musical: Harmony series combines best features from each series – musicality and accuracy to create top-tier sounding CIEMs.
- Music One (€189*) – Solid Fill Silicone, 1BA, 1-Way, Balanced: Music Series always strives to achieve the best quality to price ratio possible - vented receiver for better bass response.
- Music Two (€325*) – Solid Fill Silicone, 2BA, 2-Way, Slight V: Equipped with separate woofer and tweeter tuned for boosting lower range without overcoming midrange - vented receiver for better bass response.
- Pro 330v2 (€500*) – Solid Fill Silicone, 3BA, 2-Way, Analytical: Pro Series focuses on accuracy and details.
Reviews/Opinion Links:
- boneofimba's impressions
- H20fidelity's impressions
- DJScope's impressions
- Angelo898's impressions
- n05ey's impressions
- maguire's impressions
- Loquah's impressions
- 62ohm's impressions
Following up CustomArt US Tour set up by @Barra I emailed CustomArt owner Peter @piotrus-g whether he could do a similar tour within the Australian/New Zealand region, with me hosting it. Personally this is my first time trying a silicone CIEM (admit it, you’ll likely never try one before).
Tour Logistics:
The tour includes demos for all the CIEMs listed above. To keep logistics simple the tour will be done per region on the following basis:
NSW > ACT > VIC > QLD > WA > NZ
Tour Instructions (7 Day Audition):
Following the signup period, the participant list will be organized logistically to minimize shipping costs starting from NSW. The tour will begin with the first in the list for a 7-day audition. Thereafter they will be responsible to deliver or ship the demo kit to the next participant in the list. Please adhere to the tour rules to ensure smooth transition between tour members, keep in mind other members are patiently waiting to listen to the kit.
- Upon Receipt:
- Post: Please immediately post on the thread both receipt and condition of the demo kit.
- PM: Please immediately PM the next participant on the list to arrange a meetup (if local) or shipping via express post with signature and tracking. This step is critical to avoid delaying the tour. It is each participant’s responsibility to keep the tour moving. If the participant is unresponsive for all three days of your audition, it is your responsibility to move on to the next in the list so the tour does not get stalled. Please PM me with any issues.
- Issues: Please PM me with any issues.
- Dropping Out: Please PM me if you feel you cannot fulfil your tour responsibilities and I will pull you from the list.
- Optional Review: Reviews are completely optional, but greatly appreciated by all Head-Fi members.
- Thoughts/Impressions: Feel free to post your thoughts, initial impressions, pairing results, or even informal reviews or comparisons right here on this thread.
- Formal Reviews: While you are welcome to post formal reviews on this thread, they are often more manageable if you use the Head-Fi review functionality and post a link here for people to follow.
Tour Kit / Included Tips:
The Kit comes as pictured below and has limited tips. Yes they are silicone CIEMs and yes those are really nice cables. If you look really closely, you may also notice that these are also solid filled which I wasn’t expecting never having seen a silicone CIEM before. Yes it does seem to effect the sound eliminating unwanted resonance that I had not actually noticed in acrylics before until now that I can compare. Peter suggests that the included foams (Comply T100) should be used because they give closest experience to custom. However, other right sized tips that can be used include:
- Westone Star silicone
- Shure Grey flex
- Comply T100
NOTE: The tips supplied are brought up in case participants do not want to share the limited tip supply or want to try other options. Also as pictured below, the stems are not the typical larger demo sizes being rather small – so your typical demo tip collection may not work. This may require some planning ahead to make sure that you can properly audition this kit.
H8P Polarity:
To avoid confusion and poor sound quality due to reversed polarity, here are tips on getting polarity correct on the H8P:
- Cable polarity: positive pin on the cable is marked with dot.
- Monitor polarity: positive pin in socket is on top - furthest from the stem.
- Left cable connection (blue dot): should be attached to left monitor (with blue/silver wires inside) with dot facing your head
- Right cable connection (red dot): should be attached to right monitor (with red/silver wires) with dot facing away from your head.
Stanhope Gardens, NSW
