Alex.Grimm
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Someone can tell me what's the difference between K's Bell-LBB, Bell-LBW, Bell-LBS?
Could you write a link newer version K's?Do be aware there's a newer version of K's LBBs. Mine should arrive sometime soon.
Someone can tell me what's the difference between K's Bell-LBB, Bell-LBW, Bell-LBS?
Could you write a link newer version K's?
Has anyone else noticed red foams tearing more easily when putting them on? I picked up a 40pk from a retailer on aliexpress that I've ordered from before (though in black)
Could you write a link newer version K's?
Also note that the LBB upgraded model, the LBBs was released just before CNY, but was caught up by the outbreak and thus haven't made it to the international market yet. It retains mostly the same tuning as LBB, but slightly more lively and upfront. If you are not in any hurry and are interested in LBB, the new LBBs will be the better choice.
Judging from your EQ, the Rambo needs a treble boost and a significant cut in the mids?
I'm surprised isn wouldn't give an answer. As you no doubt are aware, just keep in mind as you move back and forth from Rambo's to the etys and Koss, they are really different fundamentally how they all present sound. I picked up those etys when they dropped to $119 earlier this year. Couldn't resist, was pondering a purchase for over a year. The etys are still among my favorite iems, even with all the amazing chifi stuff that followed (picked up the it00, Legacy 3, and awaiting for aq7). I still don't see anything completely displacing the etys.Personally I'd give an emphatic yes to that, I wound up using a similar EQ setting as SamL posted. I've found subbass can be boosted about 2db before starting to hear some distortion on bass-heavy tracks, and treble can be boosted about 3db at most before starting to break up. Jacking the subbass and lowering the midbass/lower mids really cleans up the presentation, and raising the treble results in a slight u-shaped signature without much, if any compromise in sound quality. Though, seeing as I've just gotten the KSC75 and Rambo2 in the past week (as well as the ER2XR), I still need to spend quite a bit of time on all three before I'm comfortable giving any full impressions.
Since you asked relative to the KSC75, my quick and dirty impressions are that (after EQ) the R2 is more resolving, also its soundstage seems to be on par with the KSC75, possibly a little smaller but the presence of subbass sort of counteracts that. Imaging is cleaner thanks to better resolution. The KSC75 might have slightly better timbre but I'm not quite sure yet. KSC75 no doubt has better default tuning, but after EQ I feel fairly certain the R2 is better. Still gotta get used to things though so fair warning, I might change my mind later.
Also, I asked ISN what materials they used for the Rambo2 and they refused to answer, which was kinda funny. Penon replied that the diaphragm is "titanium composite", so it's likely some sort of titanium coated plastic, which seems to be a common configuration (the KSC75 uses titanium coated mylar, apparently).
Personally I'd give an emphatic yes to that, I wound up using a similar EQ setting as SamL posted. I've found subbass can be boosted about 2db before starting to hear some distortion on bass-heavy tracks, and treble can be boosted about 3db at most before starting to break up. Jacking the subbass and lowering the midbass/lower mids really cleans up the presentation, and raising the treble results in a slight u-shaped signature without much, if any compromise in sound quality. Though, seeing as I've just gotten the KSC75 and Rambo2 in the past week (as well as the ER2XR), I still need to spend quite a bit of time on all three before I'm comfortable giving any full impressions.
Since you asked relative to the KSC75, my quick and dirty impressions are that (after EQ) the R2 is more resolving, also its soundstage seems to be on par with the KSC75, possibly a little smaller but the presence of subbass sort of counteracts that. Imaging is cleaner thanks to better resolution. The KSC75 might have slightly better timbre but I'm not quite sure yet. KSC75 no doubt has better default tuning, but after EQ I feel fairly certain the R2 is better. Still gotta get used to things though so fair warning, I might change my mind later.
Also, I asked ISN what materials they used for the Rambo2 and they refused to answer, which was kinda funny. Penon replied that the diaphragm is "titanium composite", so it's likely some sort of titanium coated plastic, which seems to be a common configuration (the KSC75 uses titanium coated mylar, apparently).
The etys are still among my favorite iems, even with all the amazing chifi stuff that followed
For sure, the etymotics are superb. This is the first time I've had to critically compare stuff, so currently I'm using the ER2XR to build a small test library and get familiar with all the nuances in each track, after that I'll see how much carries over to the R2 and KSC75. Of course it's unfair to compare an iem to an earbud/earphone, but it's all I have to work with.
I will say I was impressed with how resolving the R2 was coming off the ER2XR, even taking bass response into account. ER2 is still better but the R2 is no slouch either. Still gonna take me a while to really figure things out.
If the R2 had better default tuning I'd absolutely agree with the $70 price tag, and I'm already pretty cheap. If I weren't in a hurry I'd wait for a sale, maybe ask Penon if they'll ever bundle another cable with it again. The stock cable is a bit flimsy.
Correct, I was being lazy. I'll go back and edit the proper names in.I would like to confirm that "R2" means Rambo II, and "ER2" means ER2XR?
I rarely listen to my gear on my laptop after my oppo ha2 and meridian explorer died. I also picked up an LG v60 at the start of the pandemic and am still in love with the device. But tonight I though I'd connect my qudelix 5k and play with apo/peace eq to see what the results show.
For this experimental session, I tried to make the monk plus mimic the harman target.
How does it sound now? Not bad. A really lean sound since the driver is incapable of producing sub-bass and harman treble tend to be a bit bright to my ears. I could probably get things a bit closer to the harman target but I wanted to keep my eq ranges matched up with the freq ranges on the v60 eq.
Can anyone compare Monk+ to BK2?