ok ok ok...
(couldn't resist)
Immediate first impressions (only classical, baroque, violin etc.)
- Handel
- Vivaldi
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1. These could be
the casual classical music listeners IEM's.
2. There is very little stridency or sibilance in these, there is very little emphasis in the highs, I can (at this moment) not detect any stridency at all, the nature of the highs (above 6kHz..) is softer and nicer than the CK10, ER-4, UE700.
3. The refinement and "romanticism" in their sound reminds me of the EX1000's, along with their sensi. tivity, they pick up hiss and minute hardware noises from my T51, for example.
4. These are extremely accurate with violin overtones.
5. These are really fast, they also lack decay (such as ER-4S decay), the notes end
very quickly, which is (once again) very good with violins, at the end of Vivaldi L'Inverno part III (Janine Jansen) when there's a violent flurry of notes, it's easy to perceive each note.
Further, even on max volume from my T51, the stridency of the violin is fine, there is no glass-like piercing, there is no shrill, there is no sibalance, there
is definition.
6. The details are not served to you on a silver platter (such as with SA-5000), there is no euphoria in the music (such as with A2000X), these are simply highly accurate,
the sound is just "there".
7. Involvement is quite low, but
much higher than K2 SP, and higher than my old Stax SR-404 S. Technical appreciation is high (and thus, captivation), not as transparent as the Stax, although alluding to the same type of transparent sound.
8. Imaging and soundspace isn't striking, but isn't low either, a fairly OK balance between intimacy (very close seductive soundspace) and
too much soundspace (as per EX600 lol).
The way the "air" is presented, along with the slightly vague imaging, reminds me of the sound you get at a movie theatre... you know, a cinema. (naturally not in
distance, but in presentation)
9. As far as enjoyment is concerned, taking EX600 and UE700 into account, those are more invigorating, these are more refined, I'd give these to a Chinese fisherman or a businessman that listened to classical music on long trips, I'd give the EX600 to a teenage punk that's wants his music to sound exciting, UE700 is somewhere (in a nice spot) inbetween the two.
Well, all of the above is just from listening to classical, these nullify the stridency of violins, and increase the definition, they're also very quick, ending notes sharply, it's a bit hard to "get into" the music, but I'm listening to it intenlty, perhaps impressed by their technical fidelity and transparency, or perhaps allured by the demasking of violin stridency, like the string is a little bit more naked, and I can hear it at max volume, it's like I was listening to HTML before, and now I can hear source code
Well these have lifted my spirits a bit... now it's time to see how these respond to Electronica, Nirvana, Garagerock etc, I'm not hard to impress, but for what I like they are a bit dazzling, I'm going to get a glass of red wine and have some fun listening to my music now.
