I think it's because of the dip in the upper mids is what hurts the Elear, in many ways it's better than the T1.2's but not at what I care most about with headphones, the vocals, the T1.2 just has more body and naturalness to it's vocals. Honestly simple EQ may fix the problem for me, but I will try that a bit later. Honestly this is the one thing that prevents me from absolutely loving the sound of the Elear, it nails essentially everything else but the problem is in the one area I care about the most. It has me a bit frustrated because it's almost there for me.