sofastreamer
Headphoneus Supremus
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Out of interest, what are peoples Top 10 earbuds?
What matters to me, in order of priority:
1. Timbre
2. Preferred tuning: balanced with slight warmth, vocal-forward
3. Stage size
4. Resolution
5. Dynamics
Source: DX300 Amp12 (anything above 100ohm I tend to introduce the Defiant but it's not a hard and fast rule)
1. VE Asura Pure White Shining (Bell-Horn, 150ohm)
2. TGXear Alpha (MX500, 600ohm bery)
3. Blur OFC MX400 non-aPs Special Tuning Edition (MX500, 400ohm graphite)
4. Blur OFC MX64 aPs Special Tuning Edition (MX500, 64ohm, white glue variant)
5. VE Zen Shining Ultimate (Bell-Horn, 320ohm) - based on 'fun-factor' alone
6. TGXear Sunniva + tuning kit (MX500, 180ohm bery)
7. Blur OFC PK150 Wraith (PK, 150ohm)
8. FranQL Aquila (DP100, 85ohm bio)
9. VE Zen SL (custom PK, 320ohm)
10. VE Sun DICE (Bell-Horn 180ohm)
Honorable mention: Blur MX300 美魔女 Beautiful Witch aPs
The APWS is a bit of an oddity amongst this top 10. It's warmer and much smoother than the rest but how it does vocals is special enough to secure it pole position. Zen SU is also an oddity, with timbral flaws and a very smooth presentation. Weight, dynamics, size of the image and the warmer presentation makes it my go to for aggressive music.
List subject to change!
first of all, i thought the yincrow rw-3000 belong to the top earbuds? what did you not like about them?
As i am living in europe i sadly have hard times to get my hands on higher quality earbuds, so i always have to buy them and out of these my list goes like this:
1. Fiio EM5
2. Creative Aurvana Air
3. Sennheiser MX980 (sadly lost)
4. Fiio FF3
5. Sivga m200
6. Fiio FF5
7. VE Monks
8. Urbanista Lisbon (TWS)
9. Fiio EM3k
10. Soundpeats Air3 Deluxe HS