chaiyuta
1000+ Head-Fier
@redkingjoe : Agreed. The summit-fi TOTL IEM might be around 2999$ together with just a plain stock cable.
The differences are so insignificant that it can be attributed to reverse phasing, perhapsBut I also feel that Seahf and Hi-z are given different tunings that Seahf is a little sibilant and Hi-z is a little bassy.
Did you try the graphene?The differences are so insignificant that it can be attributed to reverse phasing, perhaps
Yes, interesting sig, airyDid you try the graphene?
I could enjoy my Emx 500 for 2 days only before right side stop working..I hope TOTL earbuds do not suffer from so
poor QC
IMHO: Ridiculous price. Got campfred in loan from a friend, I was expecting something (much) better for the price.
I have about 15 pairs of earbuds now in my drawer and my ranking would have nothing to do with the price I paid for them.
Still, current budget earbuds are getting better and better. Vido just amazes me and it sounds like a baby CampFred for a fraction of the price. DIY PK2 is quite close to Shozy BK/Stardust.
Curiosity made me order the graphene earbuds a few days ago together with Yincrow RW-777 and Moondrop Nameless.
I decided a while ago to only go for $100+ TOTL earbuds together with $5-10 budget earbuds but still I go ahead and buy new stuff since I'm curious... The earbud disease is not as strong as it was before but sometimes I get another fever pitch even if I have told myself that I do not need any new earbuds.
Also, I recently bought a pair of Victor HP AL1000 clip on earphones. I hope they arrive this week. Then my small collection of clip on earphones will be complete!
Agreed. I just bought the DIY Graphene for <$30, which is (supposedly) comparable to the Stardust, which is something like 5x the cost. With that in mind, it does become harder to justify spending $200+ on earbuds when there's always the chance that something might come out with 90% of the sound at a fraction of the price. Same with IEMs and to some extent, headphones as well.
Frankly speaking, life is too short and our ability to appreciate good sound is even much shorter than our life.
A lot of us would be willing spend a few hundred more just to achieve than 10% improvement.
After listening to that 10% of improvement, one might simply doesn't wanna listen back to the inferior sound and consider the money on that "10%" improvement was well spent. 10% improvement might be significant.
I'm starting to feel conflicted the more I listen to my new reterminated 2.5mm earbuds. I've switched to full thick foams and the voices still sound really distant... The larger soundstage was really neat at first, but now I'm not so sure anymore. Is an earbud tuned manually after the plug? I wouldn't think so, right? (This mainly affects the QFred)
Edit: I just used a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter and there's no audio in the QFred's right channel. Did the guy reterminate these incorrectly?...