[northsider]

Mr Sifo Thank you for that information a very tiny difficulty.Am very happy with both IEM’s

 

[RonaldS86]

I believe it gives more than what one can take, and depending on other parts in the chain certain aspects become more dominant.
I can set RS8 in AK4499 mode, and with Spinfit Omni, treble shines with considerable sound stage expansion towards sides
It can also challenge the EVO in bass with final E tips and a bit of dynamics.

There has been one occasion where I felt Raven was the bottleneck and that was with respect to vocals. Listen to the track Mechanistic Inception by Mono sapiens. 10 second part starting at 5:05, has nice treble and vocals mixing. Vocals aren't very clear there with Raven because of the treble; and anecdotally somebody said it was clear with Odins for example

RS8 in AK4499 mode? What is that? One of their darwin filter? You can choose the flavor of DS chips?

 

[haci]

RS8 in AK4499 mode? What is that? One of their darwin filter? You can choose the flavor of DS chips?

RS8 is highly customizable if you're playing PCM derivatives. That specific one you can find under Audio settings -> Plugins -> Mastermind -> A4499. There are more flavors there

 

[RonaldS86]

RS8 is highly customizable if you're playing PCM derivatives. That specific one you can find under Audio settings -> Plugins -> Mastermind -> A4499. There are more flavors there

Ohh, didn't know about that
It's pretty interesting

 

[texx2818]

Finally retired the Stormbreaker. I can not believe Empire ships the Odin IEM with that horrific thing. Between the tangles and the stupid connector scraping my back, I had had enough.

 

[Hoegaardener70]

Finally retired the Stormbreaker. I can not believe Empire ships the Odin IEM with that horrific thing. Between the tangles and the stupid connector scraping my back, I had had enough.

Oh ok, love my Stormbreaker and even sold my Odin without it. Cable feels nice in the hand as well.

 

[olddude]

Stormbreaker is ok. Sounds good with the Odin. I prefer it to the 1960 on Odin. Yes, it does tangle (wrapping issue, I believe), but certainly is functional. Less microphonics than the 1960 while walking. Never scratched me.

 

[MatW]

Finally retired the Stormbreaker. I can not believe Empire ships the Odin IEM with that horrific thing. Between the tangles and the stupid connector scraping my back, I had had enough.

Thanks for sharing…

 

[texx2818]

Replaced it with an Eletech, much better experience.

 

[haci]

Ohh, didn't know about that
It's pretty interesting

Another thing you can try if you haven't is to use Raven in low gain and turbo off. Sounds best to my ears. The thinking is that it's a 2 ohm IEM so doesn't really need much power to move it. More power can push it to its physical limits, which might not produce the best sound out of it

 

[SoundFlow]

Another thing you can try if you haven't is to use Raven in low gain and turbo off. Sounds best to my ears. The thinking is that it's a 2 ohm IEM so doesn't really need much power to move it. More power can push it to its physical limits, which might not produce the best sound out of it

Pardon my ignorance but I vaguely remember reading a post criticizing EE for this... Your post makes it seem likes it's maybe a good thing. Which is generally preferable? I'd assume easier to drive IEM's, no?

 

[haci]

Pardon my ignorance but I vaguely remember reading a post criticizing EE for this... Your post makes it seem likes it's maybe a good thing. Which is generally preferable? I'd assume easier to drive IEM's, no?

Whether it is a good thing to have that impedance, I don't have an answer to -) I'm just trying to make best use of it, and it seems to sound best to me when run at low gain and turbo off.

 

[MatW]

Pardon my ignorance but I vaguely remember reading a post criticizing EE for this... Your post makes it seem likes it's maybe a good thing. Which is generally preferable? I'd assume easier to drive IEM's, no?

The drawback of low impedance can be that it produces hiss with (powerful) amps. Therefore, too easy to drive is not good, imho.

 

[bland125]

The drawback of low impedance can be that it produces hiss with (powerful) amps. Therefore, too easy to drive is not good, imho.

I could be wrong but I was under the impression such hissing was due to either or both high sensitivity IEMs and noisy amplification. Impedance would relate more to the damping factor where a lower impedance IEM can have its frequency response affected by the amplification if the relation between the 2 is inadequate.

That said, I am not sure my LX would pick hissing noise unless it is in the bass region!

 

[MatW]

I could be wrong but I was under the impression such hissing was due to either or both high sensitivity IEMs and noisy amplification. Impedance would relate more to the damping factor where a lower impedance IEM can have its frequency response affected by the amplification if the relation between the 2 is inadequate.

That said, I am not sure my LX would pick hissing noise unless it is in the bass region!

You may be right. I saw a relationship between the hiss of the Odin and its low impedance, but maybe it is explained by high sensitivity instead? Welcoming others to chime in on this.