Nope, disagree. I have surfed through American sites, looking at tech and bushcraft equipment, and the discounts you guys get at times on some items on Amazon, Wal-Mart etc. dwarf the Singles' Day deals, which tend to be downright measly. There are no 50% discounts or larger in Aliexpress. In America there are.
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Slater
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Swap the channels by plugging in the 2-pin cable into the opposite earpieces. If the volume is still lower on left side it’s your ears. Maybe wax buildup.
Slater
Headphoneus Supremus
There’s more to pricing than the “% off”.
I’ve been in the fine jewelry business (off and on) for 30 years.
Pretty much every jewelry store in town all bought jewelry wholesale from the same suppliers at the same cost (depending on the market price of gold).
Let’s say we bought a gold chain for $100 (wholesale cost). Our competitors (traditionally shopping mall chains) bought the exact same chain for the same $100. But they had a 1000% markup on their “retail price”. But then they would advertise “70% off sale”, where they would sell the chain at a street price of $300.
Our store, on the other hand, marked up the chain 300% as our “everyday fair price” of $300. And we would have 20% off sales, making the street price of the gold chain $240.
But wait, our “measly” 20% wasn’t as good as our competitor’s 70% off, right? No, wrong. Our prices were more fair, despite the discount % being “smaller”.
So the products on Aliexpress are “cheap” to begin with. So a seller taking 10% off for 11.11 doesn’t seem that great, huh? Well, the same stuff on Amazon and eBay is almost always much higher. But wow, Amazon will have a flash sale for 50% off! What a great deal, right?
No, not when the Amazon “sale” price is still higher than the same thing on Aliexpress.
** and yes, I know about overhead, distribution, customer service costs, etc. I am strictly giving an example of pricing/discounting.
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Try this simple test, put on a set of iems and listen - establish that you hear the imbalance, then switch the earpieces between left and right. If the imbalance switches sides, it is in the device chain, if the imbalance is still where it was to start with, it is your hearing and time to go see an audiologist.
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I was going to say check the balance level on your dap or phone
My main data is on PCs and parts, which are expensive from China and don't get much better at 11.11. In the U.S. there are real discounts on PCs (for example, a few items from this recent ArsTechnica list, that go down 50%), going seriously below regular prices. Haven't seen these deals even in Europe.
I would say that most of the deep discounts you are seeing on the PC market in the US are closeouts where they are the end of a model run as tech dumping is very common before a new model comes out so retailers aren't left sitting on large stocks of older parts. The difference may be in business model where European and Asian companies don't have a year's supply of product pre-built at any given time like a lot of American companies do. When you have little stock, model changes are done with much less fanfare or need for the larger discounts to clean house.
I have that issue too Left side is more loud and clear compare to right side KZ ZS6 ans ES4 Does not matter. I guess its because of my ears
CYoung234
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Like another poster suggested, swap the earpieces left to right and right to left. Does the problem follow the earpieces, or is it your ears? If it is your ears, maybe your ears are different sizes, and you are getting a better seal on the left side?
dhruvmeena96
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NO it doesnt. Only sometimes
Zerohour88
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well, this is head-fi and not really a PC/tech forum? I buy quite a few stuff from both taobao and amazon/newegg(thanks to forwarders), and yes, PC stuff are more or less the same price usually, with amazon/newegg price-matching making it easier to get discount parts (rx480 for like 170 bux nearing the mining boom, phew). But discount on other kind of stuff, like IEMs are a lot better on taobao for Singles day.
granted, I'm pretty sure there are cheap PC stuff from taobao, I'm just too much of a chicken to buy them since the risk of getting a fake is too high.
Aparker2005
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As10 ordered. They look great, and it's my first time using all BA driver ears. Pretty excited to test them
KZ AS10 green real pics:
Like ES4 they look better IRL than the digital pics.
Like ES4 they look better IRL than the digital pics.
In Asia and Europe we only really want cutting edge pc stuff
dhruvmeena96
Headphoneus Supremus
ES4 with star lines and eq solved the issue
China is relatively cheaper in PC parts. Taiwan too
I have titan V and threadripper and I live in India
@HungryPanda
Europe is dAmm expensive
China is relatively cheaper in PC parts. Taiwan too
I have titan V and threadripper and I live in India
@HungryPanda
Europe is dAmm expensive
