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Aug 4, 2017 at 7:21 PM Post #21,946 of 75,480
Aug 4, 2017 at 7:55 PM Post #21,947 of 75,480
I have been burning it for the last 10 hours or so, at this early stage, I found it has wonderful soundstage and instrument separation, but treble is somehow stifled.
A great choice for the price I paid (about 20 usd). Still have to have more time with them.

Have you tried them with


I would say that the Graphene have the anti tuning of what I prefer with that song. Plenty of sparkle but no body at all.
I hope burn in will make them a little more useful.
 
Aug 4, 2017 at 8:30 PM Post #21,948 of 75,480
Yes, im not good at describing sound but i find my recable to be more enjoyable to listen to. Tighter low end, cleaner mids and highs.

My wife gave them a listen and compared to unmodded Vido. Her reaction was that she thought the sound was "more". Yeah i know, very vague but she liked my recable over the original. Of that she was sure.

If you are going to get the oyaide cable do be prepared for some stiffness ( not super bad ) and that its microphonic. But it looks awsome :wink:

I was curious how the solid core silver wires sounded in Vido.
Yes the oyaide coax re-cable you did looks awesome and that's a good reason to use it, but I'm conditioned to use coax cable for the applications it was designed.
It's better to use this thread for DIY posts: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/
 
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Aug 4, 2017 at 9:10 PM Post #21,949 of 75,480
I think the monk SPC are all sold out by now.
Yeah....I see this while attempting to order....at begining it say 900 items after I press no mic version (only version)...it say ZERO.
I really want this version to be the first Monk I try so...I write to them to know when they will have more.
 
Aug 4, 2017 at 10:07 PM Post #21,950 of 75,480
Aug 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM Post #21,951 of 75,480
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finally pulled the trigger on these two metal gear solids, I'm glad that i did
 
Aug 5, 2017 at 1:04 AM Post #21,952 of 75,480
Aug 5, 2017 at 3:00 AM Post #21,953 of 75,480
I just want to know where MusicMaker got the SPC cable they used on TKY2 from, that's one of the nicest feeling cables I have ever used. Too bad Monk SPC doesn't look the same, I'd buy a few just to reuse the cables :pancakes:
 
Aug 5, 2017 at 8:30 AM Post #21,955 of 75,480
Have you tried them with


I would say that the Graphene have the anti tuning of what I prefer with that song. Plenty of sparkle but no body at all.
I hope burn in will make them a little more useful.

I see what you mean, they do sound unreal with this one.
Last night I listened to Ravel's Bolero, Graphene proved to be not good at picking up fine details.
 
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Aug 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM Post #21,959 of 75,480
King of details NW Studio Neo

How much did you pay for it? I kind of want one now after finally seeing all the Kizu movies. They're like $300 on Amazon US. Did the price shoot up like crazy?
 

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