katulu
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Hey all! Thanks to everyone who made it, I was glad to meet everyone. I think the meet went well, always glad to chat with fellow head-fiers and of course try some different gear! My apologies since I was the organizer and was like 15 minutes late (there's always something...) and was a bit flustered, but hopefully it was worth it. Seems like everyone was able to set up fairly easily.
Here's come thoughts on some of the gear I heard:
a) Campfire Solaris - reeeaaallly nice iems. I was gratified to find out they were hybrids, I really didn't have much info on them prior to today. Wouldn't mind hearing them again, maybe compare to my favs so far the UM Mavericks. Might even pull the trigger on a pair if they're good enough. Only turn off is the cable connector, I'm not a fan of that rotating design.
b) Focal Utopia - very nice. Good powerful bass, nice imaging. I did detect a dip somewhere near 8KHz which diminished sparkle a bit for my taste, otherwise really good. Not in the market for another open-ear though.
c) Had a chance to compare my ZMF Ori to the Aeon Flow Closed. AFC sounded very shouty to me. Not really what I was expecting. I had been thinking about buying AFC, went with the Ori and I'm glad I did.
d) cubed4life has a really nice setup with slightly modded T50rps, quite enjoyed listening to this setup. Very linear with very slight dips and peaks, which makes it very cohesive. I plugged in my Oris into the Questyle (?) and was surprised that they didn't sound too good - we guess the cause was the single-ended connection. Back into my Hugo 2 they sounded great again. Would like to try the Ori into this setup with balanced cable again for a full straight comparison.
Thanks all again, pleasure to meet you all and hope we can make it happen again! Saw some love for the HD800 and HD800S, so next time maybe I'll bring the Apex Teton for everybody to try.
Cheers!
Here's come thoughts on some of the gear I heard:
a) Campfire Solaris - reeeaaallly nice iems. I was gratified to find out they were hybrids, I really didn't have much info on them prior to today. Wouldn't mind hearing them again, maybe compare to my favs so far the UM Mavericks. Might even pull the trigger on a pair if they're good enough. Only turn off is the cable connector, I'm not a fan of that rotating design.
b) Focal Utopia - very nice. Good powerful bass, nice imaging. I did detect a dip somewhere near 8KHz which diminished sparkle a bit for my taste, otherwise really good. Not in the market for another open-ear though.
c) Had a chance to compare my ZMF Ori to the Aeon Flow Closed. AFC sounded very shouty to me. Not really what I was expecting. I had been thinking about buying AFC, went with the Ori and I'm glad I did.
d) cubed4life has a really nice setup with slightly modded T50rps, quite enjoyed listening to this setup. Very linear with very slight dips and peaks, which makes it very cohesive. I plugged in my Oris into the Questyle (?) and was surprised that they didn't sound too good - we guess the cause was the single-ended connection. Back into my Hugo 2 they sounded great again. Would like to try the Ori into this setup with balanced cable again for a full straight comparison.
Thanks all again, pleasure to meet you all and hope we can make it happen again! Saw some love for the HD800 and HD800S, so next time maybe I'll bring the Apex Teton for everybody to try.
Cheers!