Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
Aether 15.3mm Planar by Kiwi ears.........................
This is the single most important post I have made in years, years! Here are my first impressions!
Timestamps only pertain to digital file, not video.
Gdanian
Induction
Shield Emitter (feat. Tineidae)
44.1kHz - 24bit
Ok, now wait till you get to the 00:10 mark on the digital file. There is a set of chimes, most IEMs never even get close to portraying them, only the Aether finds them and brings them to life! This is the single best Planar I have ever heard in my life. It is not for sale yet, but I may have seen a price of around $169.99? It’s worth $400.00……….I’m not kidding here. What?
And the bass and the overall stage……….it is huge, huge stage, But the bass while deep is more focused and pure, pure to the Planar style, being that it is fast, super fast. This is totally insane, I’m creaming in my jeans here? The best IEM I have heard this year regardless of price…………I’m 5 feet off the ground right now? I mean I just checked another track……….and I don’t need anymore IEMs………..maybe for the rest of the year, maybe for the rest of my life.
These are so good it is spooky, and makes me happy to be alive in 2025, just to witness what the heck they are doing now with this technology.
Song Two:
Ghost
Hunter’s Moon
From Halloween Kills OST
44.1khz - 24bit
Look I wasn’t totally sure, but this song solidified these ideas. I’m using the new SIMGOT AUDIO wide-bores and LC7 cable in 4.4mm. Sure these draw power like no tomorrow. My Sony WM1A is maxed out on high gain with MrWalkman’s firmware.
This is bigger than life, enormous in size…………honestly these are incredible, and don’t take my word for it, I mean you can, but just wait for more opinions to come……..more opinions will come by the day and by the week……………..
I mean I have zero burn-in hours and these sound absolutely perfect. It is just that you don't think they can get any better, then they do. At the 00:01 mark this song starts with electric guitar, only only you hear the single string resonate, then go under the picking…….there's so much detail that I’m not sure I can beat this at any price point………I know I sound crazy……but that is just how perfect the tone is and how very big the stage is, and how the whole stage is fully filled-in to the center?
At 00:04 the drums hit and they are very very well paced and clear. Not really deep, but fast and never clouding the mids. When I say not deep, they have this wicked planar punch that makes them super fast and physical. OH my GOD, then the vocals are so forward and in your face.
I should probably stop this set of first impressions? I have never ever heard anything like these since I got into headphones in 1975! Even if they were $400.00, even if they were $1000.00……….they would be totally worth the price of admission. I'm speechless at the moment? Check any of my first impressions, often they are placed in my reviews, I have never sounded like a
5150? I have never sounded like the guys in the white van are going to park out front and take me away in a straight-jacket! Bye…….for now………history, IEM history has just been made, the best Planar I have ever heard.
And I thought my collection of IEMs was always going to be worth money, this single IEM destroys the value of what pieces I have accumulated, it destroys the entire market of IEMs………………………………..no this is not April Fools Day, that comes later this year, the only thing foolish is if you don’t buy the Aether the very first chance you get, no matter what the price is going to be!
Timestamps only pertain to digital file, not video.
Headphone of the year!
This is the single most important post I have made in years, years! Here are my first impressions!
Timestamps only pertain to digital file, not video.
Gdanian
Induction
Shield Emitter (feat. Tineidae)
44.1kHz - 24bit
Ok, now wait till you get to the 00:10 mark on the digital file. There is a set of chimes, most IEMs never even get close to portraying them, only the Aether finds them and brings them to life! This is the single best Planar I have ever heard in my life. It is not for sale yet, but I may have seen a price of around $169.99? It’s worth $400.00……….I’m not kidding here. What?
And the bass and the overall stage……….it is huge, huge stage, But the bass while deep is more focused and pure, pure to the Planar style, being that it is fast, super fast. This is totally insane, I’m creaming in my jeans here? The best IEM I have heard this year regardless of price…………I’m 5 feet off the ground right now? I mean I just checked another track……….and I don’t need anymore IEMs………..maybe for the rest of the year, maybe for the rest of my life.
These are so good it is spooky, and makes me happy to be alive in 2025, just to witness what the heck they are doing now with this technology.
Song Two:
Ghost
Hunter’s Moon
From Halloween Kills OST
44.1khz - 24bit
Look I wasn’t totally sure, but this song solidified these ideas. I’m using the new SIMGOT AUDIO wide-bores and LC7 cable in 4.4mm. Sure these draw power like no tomorrow. My Sony WM1A is maxed out on high gain with MrWalkman’s firmware.
This is bigger than life, enormous in size…………honestly these are incredible, and don’t take my word for it, I mean you can, but just wait for more opinions to come……..more opinions will come by the day and by the week……………..
I mean I have zero burn-in hours and these sound absolutely perfect. It is just that you don't think they can get any better, then they do. At the 00:01 mark this song starts with electric guitar, only only you hear the single string resonate, then go under the picking…….there's so much detail that I’m not sure I can beat this at any price point………I know I sound crazy……but that is just how perfect the tone is and how very big the stage is, and how the whole stage is fully filled-in to the center?
At 00:04 the drums hit and they are very very well paced and clear. Not really deep, but fast and never clouding the mids. When I say not deep, they have this wicked planar punch that makes them super fast and physical. OH my GOD, then the vocals are so forward and in your face.
I should probably stop this set of first impressions? I have never ever heard anything like these since I got into headphones in 1975! Even if they were $400.00, even if they were $1000.00……….they would be totally worth the price of admission. I'm speechless at the moment? Check any of my first impressions, often they are placed in my reviews, I have never sounded like a
5150? I have never sounded like the guys in the white van are going to park out front and take me away in a straight-jacket! Bye…….for now………history, IEM history has just been made, the best Planar I have ever heard. And I thought my collection of IEMs was always going to be worth money, this single IEM destroys the value of what pieces I have accumulated, it destroys the entire market of IEMs………………………………..no this is not April Fools Day, that comes later this year, the only thing foolish is if you don’t buy the Aether the very first chance you get, no matter what the price is going to be!
Timestamps only pertain to digital file, not video.
Headphone of the year!
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(smiling sadly)
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