X6, qian39, vido, or at 50$ just get RikuBuds
With 50 dollars you can buy whatever drivers you want from 32 ohm (you buy them all) to 600 ohm and make your own buds. Then you tell us which one is the best
That is an awfully wide and general request. Nobody here knows what you are looking for. And the BEST at any price point will be different for pretty much everyone here.
FYI - I have personally owned and/or heard Penon's currently offered Yuin PK & OK series models (a few different times from 2018-2020) and although nice sounding (with a touch of the original Yuin house sound and tuning) they do not sound the same as the original 2006 Yuin PK series (PK1 PK2 PK3) nor the original 2008 Yuin OK series (OK1 OK2 OK3... which I preferred and liked better... I was an odd ball about this series). Definitely entirely different drivers being deployed here.
not everyone has the time and resources to do that
Absolutely agree @WoodyLuvr. This driver isn't the best by any stretch. It doesn't have the largest soundstage or the highest resolution. That said, I do enjoy it immensely the way I have it tuned now. It's not a resolution slouch, but not up to the best of modern drivers. It hangs with the cheap ones rather well however. There's something rather "analog" about it. It's so comfortable in the ear as well. I say it's a lot like hugging a friendly woman with large, pillowy _________ sweater on. It's a sensation you can enjoy all day, over and over again.
Oh, you may think that a bud that measures like this would have more kick than the FiiO. Well, it doesn't. The FiiO is the middle line at 100Hz and it kicks like a mule. Everyone says that you "feel" the 100Hz kick. Well it's true, but you feel it more from the overall better design. I only have guesses as to why that is, but lets just say that the FiiO outperforms what a simple frequency response graph lets on. The FiiO is the closest thing to a skull rattle I've heard in a bud though it doesn't really measure that way. I Have several that measure to have more bass and a couple of them deeper as well...... Thank goodness there's more to this than what a frequency response graph can tell you. Otherwise we could auto EQ everything to sound the same.I retuned the EA buds tonight just to see if I could get the weird vocal sound out of them. I was fairly successful. Though this is a fairly insane V-shape tuning, this works much better for these buds than the stock tuning. The stock tuning for these buds makes it sounds like everyone has a stuffy nose--or an unusual 'head' voice. The problem is the height of the 2kHz peak. You can remove it by drilling holes, but it also gives you the mid bass bump. These buds are already too bloated, but what can you do? I could open them up and start from scratch, but I'm afraid of damaging them as I'm unfamiliar with the shell. So in any case, the normal way to do such a thing would be to drill a hold in either the back of the shell or underneath the stem. I didn't measure any difference drilling into the back of this shell with any rational sized bit(maybe they have a foam underneath the shell on the back?), so I tried the latter with success. I ended up doing two holes and leaving the pinna gain a bit to high to test my "when foams get softer, they reduce pinna gain" theory. It's worked on the last 2 buds and I've decided I'm going to tune buds a bit hot from this day forward. So this is where this is starting:
The dark blue line is where we started. You know my philosophy: I've one end is going to have too much output, I'd rather it be the bass. You can see the original had less mid bass and more deep bass. Those changes are audible but less harmful than they look. The pinna gain change is a huge step in the right direction, though not an ideal shape. I think the ideal shape should be a bit closer to what FiiO has done with the FF3 or what I did with the PK2 driver. Here's how it stacks up against those:
When I tuned the 500Be to a fairly similar curve, it destroys this driver in the technicalities department. Nonetheless, this is enjoyable at the moment.
I would add RY4S MMCX PLUS. Unfortunately you won't find reviews for them, but I consider them qualitatively comparable to the Yincrow X6.
I retuned the EA buds tonight just to see if I could get the weird vocal sound out of them. I was fairly successful. Though this is a fairly insane V-shape tuning, this works much better for these buds than the stock tuning. The stock tuning for these buds makes it sounds like everyone has a stuffy nose--or an unusual 'head' voice. The problem is the height of the 2kHz peak. You can remove it by drilling holes, but it also gives you the mid bass bump. These buds are already too bloated, but what can you do? I could open them up and start from scratch, but I'm afraid of damaging them as I'm unfamiliar with the shell. So in any case, the normal way to do such a thing would be to drill a hold in either the back of the shell or underneath the stem. I didn't measure any difference drilling into the back of this shell with any rational sized bit(maybe they have a foam underneath the shell on the back?), so I tried the latter with success. I ended up doing two holes and leaving the pinna gain a bit to high to test my "when foams get softer, they reduce pinna gain" theory. It's worked on the last 2 buds and I've decided I'm going to tune buds a bit hot from this day forward. So this is where this is starting:
The dark blue line is where we started. You know my philosophy: I've one end is going to have too much output, I'd rather it be the bass. You can see the original had less mid bass and more deep bass. Those changes are audible but less harmful than they look. The pinna gain change is a huge step in the right direction, though not an ideal shape. I think the ideal shape should be a bit closer to what FiiO has done with the FF3 or what I did with the PK2 driver. Here's how it stacks up against those:
When I tuned the 500Be to a fairly similar curve, it destroys this driver in the technicalities department. Nonetheless, this is enjoyable at the moment.
