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- I am working on the Minerva Mi-3 review and getting some ear time with the Starkey SA-12 also. I am about 60% done with the Mi-3 review.
Excellent, many thanks for this
- I am working on the Minerva Mi-3 review and getting some ear time with the Starkey SA-12 also. I am about 60% done with the Mi-3 review.
Cheers! It's almost left me disappointed as I'm not sure they're worth the upgrade over my UM2s now.
At work I use a FiiO E7 but otherwise it's a 1st gen nano with rockbox which has no problem driving the UM2s.
They are on par with the rest of the custom IEMs I own in the price range. They are also overall better than the SM3 to put it in perspective, it is just that I have multiple custom IEMs in the price range so I can compare and contrast, and many others that talk very highly of a custom IEM only have one, so that is the pinnacle to them. Nothing is perfect, so hopefully my review will help others understand what they are getting, which could be outstanding to you!
Maybe PM McCol for his perspective.
Hi average_joe
Looking forward to your full Starkey SA-43 review, I've scoured the net and found very limited information on this particular custom even though it was compared favourably to the JH13/16 and was stated having "better resolution, airier overtones, and more forgiving to low quality sources" than the UE 18 Pro, and another review said "best custom I've ever used".
Did you receive a FR chart of it? Can you get the on/off switches and shell in different transparent colours? Technically it seems like the best custom I've read about so far but aesthetically it looks more like a hearing aid (with clear transparent shell and those beige switches...), I'm also curious how it compares to the Rooth LS8 as that thing looks really appealing too!
As for your custom IEM collecting and review efforts, keep it up! Music is a drug and this thread is about finding the best dealers.
/kiteki
oh and one more q... did they say which drivers it uses? I noticed another starkey model you're reviewing uses the ck10 driver...
I don't know much about customs, but I'm researching as much as I can and thinking if I can afford it I want to jump the gun to the best model there is (period) for me, instead of climbing a ladder, so far the Starkey looks the best to me but if you want to point me in another direction or give a brief synopsis of what top-tier customs are best at respective genres that would be cool too.
Thx thx!
/kiteki
Hey joe, I am also really interested in the SA43. Do you know if they ship to Canada? From what I have read, one of the switches adjusts the amount of bass while the other adjust the presence of the vocals, like more forward? Is the bass difference more of quantity or depth of the bass? thanks.