[bigbeans]

I like the bumpy texture on the leather personally. Nice to grip and feel.

 

[tawmizzzz]

I like the bumpy texture on the leather personally. Nice to grip and feel.

Just reminds me of popcorn ceilings a bit too much. And most popcorn ceilings I associate with teachers or doctors from hell

 

[SBranson]

Who is choosing these colors!?!

Perhaps one of the benefits of being colour blind is not noticing colour as a feature as much as form. Whatever colour that darker one is, (purple?) I though it was black but just a weird lighting/camera angle making it look lighter than black..
The other one is just "bright" (yellow?)... I ask because if you told me it was neon green I would believe you.. ha ha..
Functionally, these look great though...

 

[jwilliamhurst]

Just reminds me of popcorn ceilings a bit too much. And most popcorn ceilings I associate with teachers or doctors from hell

It’s a grained leather which is very common in luxury items especially luggage and boots. It’s durable and does not crease as easily as a smooth leather. Smooth leather is a bit more upkeep.

 

[kkugel]

Any metal songs you recommend in specific to A/B? So far for genres Alternative, Indie, Progressive & EDM, I notice deeper extension on the lows & highs from Tidal over APM. Average loudness is higher off Tidal, but even after volume-matching, the dynamics are less refined/smoother on the APM (which likely explains why it is more forgiving on worse quality tracks).

Likely can't ignore that my W2 is registering 88.2k on Tidal versus APM's mostly 44.

That's weird....I notice the EXACT opposite. Tidal sounds the worst of all streaming services to me. Try some of the top Trivium songs!
But I've noticed AM sounding very different from my laptop to my Android phone. I guess you might be trying it off your laptop? Android beta app sounded best to me.

Edit: I've had my old man listen to both too without telling him what the difference is. He says Tidal sounds digital, while AM has that vinyl smoothness. I hope someone analyzes sometime what's going on

 

[gLer]

That's weird....I notice the EXACT opposite. Tidal sounds the worst of all streaming services to me. Try some of the top Trivium songs!
But I've noticed AM sounding very different from my laptop to my Android phone. I guess you might be trying it off your laptop? Android beta app sounded best to me.

Edit: I've had my old man listen to both too without telling him what the difference is. He says Tidal sounds digital, while AM has that vinyl smoothness. I hope someone analyzes sometime what's going on

All these different streaming presentations suggest some serious DSP going on behind the scenes. Which means you're not getting Bitperfect masters. In any other conversation that would be an issue, no?

 

[max1236]

That's weird....I notice the EXACT opposite. Tidal sounds the worst of all streaming services to me. Try some of the top Trivium songs!
But I've noticed AM sounding very different from my laptop to my Android phone. I guess you might be trying it off your laptop? Android beta app sounded best to me.

Edit: I've had my old man listen to both too without telling him what the difference is. He says Tidal sounds digital, while AM has that vinyl smoothness. I hope someone analyzes sometime what's going on

Even my wife can hear it!
Also I look forward to your trailli iem. Even if it doesn't live up I appreciate the endeavour.

 

[kkugel]

All these different streaming presentations suggest some serious DSP going on behind the scenes. Which means you're not getting Bitperfect masters. In any other conversation that would be an issue, no?

Hmmm it's a bit of a weird thing. It sounds like very well done DSP but some people found that labels snuck MQA into AM which played back as MQA. That suggests that it is bit perfect. They probably just have different masters, as indicated by the "Apple Digital Master" badge

 

[kkugel]

Even my wife can hear it!
Also I look forward to your trailli iem. Even if it doesn't live up I appreciate the endeavour.

Please don't call it Traillii IEM it's only Traillii-inspired. But very cool man, I hope I can make some people happy with my work

 

[gLer]

Hmmm it's a bit of a weird thing. It sounds like very well done DSP but some people found that labels snuck MQA into AM which played back as MQA. That suggests that it is bit perfect. They probably just have different masters, as indicated by the "Apple Digital Master" badge

MQA on AM...can you imagine the scandal!

 

[kkugel]

MQA on AM...can you imagine the scandal!

Yep. A bit like GoldenSound sneaking Test Signals into MQA Actually, that gives me an idea. AM can probably be analyzed the same way....

But anyways, AM and Traillii sure have nice synergy

 

[twister6]

Please don't call it Traillii IEM it's only Traillii-inspired. But very cool man, I hope I can make some people happy with my work

You do realize you're raising expectation bar very high with all this hype about Traillii clone Maybe you should bundle it with Dr's PWA cable clone, to make it complete?

But seriously, I'm curious if this is going to be your first IEM or have you made some in the past or collaborated with other manufacturers? Head-fi gave birth to some popular brand names. Peter of TheCustomArt was just a regular head-fier and look where it got him!

 

[kkugel]

You do realize you're raising expectation bar very high with all this hype about Traillii clone Maybe you should bundle it with Dr's PWA cable clone, to make it complete?

But seriously, I'm curious if this is going to be your first IEM or have you made some in the past or collaborated with other manufacturers? Head-fi gave birth to some popular brand names. Peter of TheCustomArt was just a regular head-fier and look where it got him!

I think this is a bit too much talk about my brand instead of Traillii-related things. Feel free to send me a PM, we can discuss further via Email without violating HeadFi ToS
I'm friends with a very talented IEM developer, that much I can say

 

[aaf evo]

I know this isn’t directly Traillii related, but I just got the DHL notification for the shipment of the Elysian Acoustic Labs Annihilator demo to arrive, it says Monday the 28th but knowing DHL I should have it before then. Really really looking forward to hearing this one and haven’t been this excited to try an IEM since I was waiting for the Traillii demo.

I’ll post some comparisons whenever I have it!

 

[Ojisan]

Black leather lol. Sleek, luxurious.

Or a burgandy red to go with the bird