With stock foam masya is nothing special to my ears. It's overly warm in the bass and it's shallow in the low mids, peaky in the treble, and hence is very foam picky...Because once I stick on hiegi/thick full foam with multi hole foam it's like a completely different earbud. It's tight and punchy in the bass, very clean sweet mids with enough weight to carry the eurphoric-sweet vocals but always light and delicate. Treble is airy and sparkles like the BS1.
Gun to mouth I'd take the masya, it's got this effortless airy sound and the low end is so snappy. It's pretty phenomenal with the right setup if you like the lighter, delicate signature, but with punch in the bass.
It's also pretty out there on the imaging, which gains depth like all buds do with the multi hole foam. It's less crazy than the bs1 for precision, but it is still accurate and way more airy and reaching out far. Somewhere in between shozy bk and bs1 imaging styles.
But it's like 60% masya 40% BS1 and my choice is factoring in the comfort-fit. SQ wise it's just personal preference because both are equal quality but the Masya is so airy I just love it.
Masya has become my joint favorite earbud along with EQ'd Ling. Second is Mojito, BS1 and BK.
And the more I play with foams etc the more I realise the difference between the $250 earbuds and the $100 earbuds is less important than the tuning with foams and the synergy with the source...
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