Any thoughts about this driver from NSC Audio store ?
I have one. Tuned it closely as the graphs would suggest, putting the drivers as it is made the midrange bloated so I put some horseshoe foam and it got more linear. Turned it into a transparent build because not seeing that titanium diaphragm would be a waste
As for my impressions, it's definitely balanced on the lower regions but with a cool tonality, there's also bright focus on the upper to lower treble parts, but surprisingly not sibilant. They can go loud with smartphones too so they're really easy to drive, I actually use them when I don't like to bring the dangly dongles on the go.
There's also a "bass" version of this that sports the same PCB but with a green epoxy for the coil, buy that or buy them both! You can also get that weird MX500 shell that I'm talking about in those, so if you do, get another pair of 130ohms and put it there, just kidding!
Same here. I don't think that the difference in sound is noticeable only because of the small difference in these MX500 shells.
For me TC200 is an average sounding driver, just slightly better than EMX500. Currently, my favorite Tingo model is TG-38s, and it's a step above the TC200
There is definitely a difference in terms of those weird MX500 shells. The cavity volume in there ain't right compared to the usual, vents too small and the stem hole almost measures as a yuin pk shell so you could imagine it's almost air tight. I tried to put my V-shaped pink dot big solders on those shells (just horseshoe foam) and it gave me a bloat in the midrange while with normal transparent shells, it gave what the graphs shown somehow...
Also, there's 3 different drivers that those sellers used in the "DIY" TC200 from what I found in various fb forums. I'm saying it with a "DIY" because for sure they just bootlegged the OG TC200/TG-38s which TinGo produces. Those TinGo TC200/TG-38s were also made to bootleg or sound like the unicorn Sennheiser MX985. Talk about a bootleg inception...
Also, I'm not gonna assume the original is better or anything from those other versions, but there's certainly a charm to those bootleg bootlegs that makes it a hyped pair.
I'm still in the process of getting more data for a megapost. Still need to find pictures on the innards of those OG TinGo TC200 (silver shell version or the one with a weird shell) or the TG-38s to at least give people a baseline on what the "original" is supposed to be, so if any of you have a pair that you're willing to crack open, post it here or DM me!
