Courtesy of Bad Robot, moderator on Hifi-forum.de. Should answer some further questions:
"Hello, I had only a preliminary model that I now had to return again. But I have already ordered me my own phone, and if I have to, I will write a more detailed review, and also enter into great detail on the differences with the other "usual suspects." With the FA 3EXB him I could still do not compare directly, since I only have a single FA 3EXB, and is still awarded (all the other InEars as W4 and UE900 I have double and sometimes even triple). I can say, for me, the Stage Diver 3 Universal In-Ear best in my collection. He has the realistic stage, as they otherwise only known from high-end custom InEars like UERM or high-end Dynamikern as the IE80 / IE800. The W4 does have a very wide stage (which is again wider than the stagedivers 3), however, "may" W4 signal depth is not so good - in w4 all sounds kind of the same distance. The StageDiver3 can also convey "closeness" very good. This is partly because the W4 at 4-5kHz has a giant hole that has not StageDiver3. Mids (voices) are the StageDiver3 very realistic, and if someone has breathed close to the microphone when recording, it also provides the StageDiver3 just as close and intimate dar. The W4 can not. kick the bass is extremely quick and crisp when StageDiver3 .When this area W4 sounds more like a "bass wall" that drowned out the mids a bit. This is the W4 but rather to the (comparatively) "Carpet Facial". When I lower the W4 upper bass from always using EQ to 1, 2 dB, so that it matches the rest. When StageDiver3 I have not. StageDiver3 addition, the bass has a higher proportion than the W4 (faaaaaar a subtle subwoofer effect). Compared to M3: hmmm, that are very difficult to compare. The question of whether the StageDiver3 now more or less like your bass has the M3, I can not really answer. The M3 are just the centers to present (something emphasized too strongly), even for a "neutral" is the middle of Listeners share too high. This is not the case with StageDiver3. This is the StageDiver3 compared to the centers of deep bass and kick bass higher proportion. Otherwise, what else is there for high-end InEars at the moment ... compared to the middle UE900 to "recessed" are the UE900 (slightly softened). The Heir 4.Ai has (IMHO) falsified tonal centers (which are too bright). When StageDiver3 the centers "real" (and so "real" as the UERM). I think the Heir 4.Ai one has to contend with phase shift effects, and you tried to get through a slight increase in the upper mids the mids back a little more to the fore. Thus, the centers at Heir 4.Ai are indeed present than the W4 and also the UE900, but IMHO just tonally not "right." Compared to the UERM StageDiver3 is not quite as high in Superhochton.The version that I could hear now was the Superhochton but better than a very early, similar model, which I had already heard last year. The super high but the UERM is already raised too much some people.course, my own personal taste in these flows with a description, which must please consider her. But for me the best is the StageDiver3 Universal Ear ever. I can only recommend him to audition. direct comparison to my FA-3E with the XB but even I'm very excited. Greetings, Markus "
