Funny how this hobby works sometimes. Spent the last couple hours listening to Holocene on the n3Pro and they've really grown on me. I swapped out the tips for these Sednafit Crystals and this added a touch of needed clarity across the board in the mids. I think the difference between something like the Reborn and the Holocene is that on the Reborn the midrange on the whole is a bit more diffused with the vocals taking centre stage in terms of forwardness and clarity. On the Holocene the midrange presentation is much more even keeled with vocals more-or-less being in line with instruments. Further I'm finding with different IEMs that the sound of the n3pro gets more alluring the longer you listen to it...i'm not sure of this is just in my head or what. I'm finding the Holocene to be a really nice lower volume listen where you can just sit back and melt into the sound. Bass and highs never take precedence over the mids but they do an admirable serviceable job....but the heart of the music is the midrange and this is where your attention is consistently drawn to while listening to Holocene. It does EDM rather well to my surprise but this is definitely not its strong suit.
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I was on the fence with the Holocene until I heard this:
This has to be one of my all time favorite tracks. From about 2009 - 2016 I went through 4 different iPods and iTunes kept a running count of all the songs I listened to over the years. This one was firmly in my top 3. It's technically one of my reference tracks as I've listened to it on every IEM I've owned at one point or another but I don't bring it up much because it's not a really easy track to get right to my ears. This is because of all the different layers & sounds going on-- it's got a kind of "chamber of secrets" like feel and it's really easy for any of the different layers to get crowded out or lost in the mix, as inevitably happens if the mid-range isn't fairly linear, or if there's to much energy in the highs, or too much bass. I'm tempted to say that up until now I haven't heard a set of IEMs whose presentation of this track is as effective to me as that of the Holocene. A combination of the highly satisfying but unobtrusive bass (this is one instance where I may actually prefer BA bass), a very even-keeled midrange on up, a little sprinkling of Campfire magic and the result in this case totally works. If I wind up keeping it long term the Holocene will be a special teams IEM for me, but after tonight it's given me a sense of its own identity and got me excited to get to know it more fully.
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In case anyone needs more raga in their life...
This has to be one of my all time favorite tracks. From about 2009 - 2016 I went through 4 different iPods and iTunes kept a running count of all the songs I listened to over the years. This one was firmly in my top 3. It's technically one of my reference tracks as I've listened to it on every IEM I've owned at one point or another but I don't bring it up much because it's not a really easy track to get right to my ears. This is because of all the different layers & sounds going on-- it's got a kind of "chamber of secrets" like feel and it's really easy for any of the different layers to get crowded out or lost in the mix, as inevitably happens if the mid-range isn't fairly linear, or if there's to much energy in the highs, or too much bass. I'm tempted to say that up until now I haven't heard a set of IEMs whose presentation of this track is as effective to me as that of the Holocene. A combination of the highly satisfying but unobtrusive bass (this is one instance where I may actually prefer BA bass), a very even-keeled midrange on up, a little sprinkling of Campfire magic and the result in this case totally works. If I wind up keeping it long term the Holocene will be a special teams IEM for me, but after tonight it's given me a sense of its own identity and got me excited to get to know it more fully.
Edit:
In case anyone needs more raga in their life...
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blotmouse
Headphoneus Supremus
Orbital, nice.This has to be one of my all time favorite tracks
I was on the fence with the Holocene until I heard this:
This has to be one of my all time favorite tracks. From about 2009 - 2016 I went through 4 different iPods and iTunes kept a running count of all the songs I listened to over the years. This one was firmly in my top 3. It's technically one of my reference tracks as I've listened to it on every IEM I've owned at one point or another but I don't bring it up much because it's not a really easy track to get right to my ears. This is because of all the different layers & sounds going on-- it's got a kind of "chamber of secrets" like feel and it's really easy for any of the different layers to get crowded out or lost in the mix, as inevitably happens if the mid-range isn't fairly linear, or if there's to much energy in the highs, or too much bass. I'm tempted to say that up until now I haven't heard a set of IEMs whose presentation of this track is as effective to me as that of the Holocene. A combination of the highly satisfying but unobtrusive bass (this is one instance where I may actually prefer BA bass), a very even-keeled midrange on up, a little sprinkling of Campfire magic and the result in this case totally works. If I wind up keeping it long term the Holocene will be a special teams IEM for me, but after tonight it's given me a sense of its own identity and got me excited to get to know it more fully.
Edit:
In case anyone needs more raga in their life...
What's a raga? Does it have to do with making you go strong longer?
Even-sounding is what I'd describe the Q4 as well. It also is capable of exhibiting how your source sounds like in all its peculiarities Try them with your phone or laptop next time
What's a raga? Does it have to do with making you go strong longer?
Even-sounding is what I'd describe the Q4 as well. It also is capable of exhibiting how your source sounds like in all its peculiarities Try them with your phone or laptop next time
Raga is hard to define, and I'm probably not qualified to comment, but I listen to alot of it so I'll try...Essentially its a melodic/modal device in Indian music that is meant to evoke certain emotions depending on which raga is played. There are quite a few of them!
Ragas played with Hariprasad Chaurasia, on the bansuri flute, are my main go-to relaxation tracks when I'm very stressed.