I've been eyeing the Moondrops that are within my $200 budget range (Kanas Pro, Aria, Crescent), looking to pick up a neutral IEM with realistic, natural timbre and presentation. This means not just 'flat' frequency response on a graph, but natural timbre, tone, body and weight to instruments. I work in music production and I'm coming from extremely neutral, calibrated headphones and studio monitors present the sound of instruments exactly as they are in the recording.
Which of the Moondrop IEMs within the $200 mark will give me that in IEM form? Isolation is also pretty important, because I'll probably use these as live performance IEMs as well. Technical aspects like separation and imaging are always important, but neutrality still comes first.
It looks like Moondrop is trying to do exactly this (partly by choosing to follow the Harman target vs diffuse-field), and they all seem to offer great performance for the price, as well.