james444
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Well, to be precise, I told you it's either an issue with the loaner pair or with fit (and I wouldn't rule out the latter). This is the exact same pair that MuppetFace compared to her white-cabled version and concluded that both sound very similar to each other.
The FI-BA-SS, to my ears, never ever sound veiled, not even slightly so. To quote from Joker's review, "... the texture and detail levels of the FADs are indeed very high and the resulting transparency is simply off the scale – even the CK10 sounds slightly veiled next to the BA-SS ...". That's pretty much how I hear them too, and the main reason why they are among my very favorite IEMs.
Then there's that extra-midbass you repeatedly mentioned in your review. The FI-BA-SS, to my ears, don't have any mid-bass hump, in fact their bass stays very linear down to 20Hz, in line with Sonove's graph. If anything, they sound a bit thin in the upper bass/lower mids region, due to the recession that Tom mentioned (which starts even lower than 900Hz).
And last not least, the highs: the FI-BA-SS have a lot of treble energy, just look at Sonove's comparison to the ER4P. They may not have the ultimate extension of a multi-driver IEM like the W4, but the latter sound significantly warmer and less energetic in treble.
So, all in all, I'm hearing the FI-BA-SS remarkably different from you, that's why I suspect there may be some issue with your loaner pair or your fit.
After reading my comparison to the GR07 MKII, james444 told me that he believes there may be an issue with the pair I'm using. I called it slightly veiled in comparison to the GR07, but it's not something that's really noticeable without a direct comparison to a brighter phone. This leads me to my other point: I'm hearing the treble of the SS to not be tuned to reach way up there. In other words, it's not quite as 'sparkly' or 'sizzly' as a W4, or HF5, FX700, or even an SE535. I think this is what contributes to the extra warmth I'm hearing.
Again, I can't simply ignore james444's concerns. Hopefully MuppetFace can chime in to see if she heard it even remotely closely to what I'm hearing now.
Well, to be precise, I told you it's either an issue with the loaner pair or with fit (and I wouldn't rule out the latter). This is the exact same pair that MuppetFace compared to her white-cabled version and concluded that both sound very similar to each other.
The FI-BA-SS, to my ears, never ever sound veiled, not even slightly so. To quote from Joker's review, "... the texture and detail levels of the FADs are indeed very high and the resulting transparency is simply off the scale – even the CK10 sounds slightly veiled next to the BA-SS ...". That's pretty much how I hear them too, and the main reason why they are among my very favorite IEMs.
Then there's that extra-midbass you repeatedly mentioned in your review. The FI-BA-SS, to my ears, don't have any mid-bass hump, in fact their bass stays very linear down to 20Hz, in line with Sonove's graph. If anything, they sound a bit thin in the upper bass/lower mids region, due to the recession that Tom mentioned (which starts even lower than 900Hz).
And last not least, the highs: the FI-BA-SS have a lot of treble energy, just look at Sonove's comparison to the ER4P. They may not have the ultimate extension of a multi-driver IEM like the W4, but the latter sound significantly warmer and less energetic in treble.
So, all in all, I'm hearing the FI-BA-SS remarkably different from you, that's why I suspect there may be some issue with your loaner pair or your fit.