thesheik137
1000+ Head-Fier
I would like to start off by saying big respect to all reviewers who spend their time analyzing gear and writing reviews/articles on them. It is very valuable for the community and I appreciate it a lot. However, there are so many options out there and only so many ways to describe them, that sometimes I think that a simpler, more quantitative approach to reviewing and comparing products could be used. I think numbers can tell their own story separate from the words, but it may also be a good to combine the two to paint a more complete picture.
As a test case, I have conducted a quantitative analysis/comparison of 3 IEMs I currently own and am listening to: Fearless S8 Pro, Sony IER-M9, and Custom Art FIBAE4. I want to let the numbers talk for themselves, but I will note that all of the listening was done from the same source and with the same cable model and eartips used for all IEMs.
Overall, I am pretty happy with the end result in regards to formatting / categories etc, but more tweaking could always be used.
For anyone who is interested, I have include the excel file HERE as well, so feel free to edit, give feedback and use for yourselves.
Thanks.
EDIT: Updated to V2 already. Changes include more categories (speed, dynamics, coherency), changed weighting and possible points total of 100. Was originally trying to keep it simple, but decided to go all out.
As a test case, I have conducted a quantitative analysis/comparison of 3 IEMs I currently own and am listening to: Fearless S8 Pro, Sony IER-M9, and Custom Art FIBAE4. I want to let the numbers talk for themselves, but I will note that all of the listening was done from the same source and with the same cable model and eartips used for all IEMs.
Overall, I am pretty happy with the end result in regards to formatting / categories etc, but more tweaking could always be used.
For anyone who is interested, I have include the excel file HERE as well, so feel free to edit, give feedback and use for yourselves.
Thanks.
EDIT: Updated to V2 already. Changes include more categories (speed, dynamics, coherency), changed weighting and possible points total of 100. Was originally trying to keep it simple, but decided to go all out.
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