[Dorick]

Ier - z1r v2 =P now made of cubic zirconium

 

[Redcarmoose]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TH9_bqUq1vANsFiXVbVZ6w8kVA9C3DkknnMGyIcKE7M/htmlview



IER-Z1R is top of list.

Bad Guy Good Audio Reviews

 

[fullbass]

anybody has thieaudio voyager 14?

 

[jmills8]

anybody has thieaudio voyager 14?

You playing the game of "next one will be end game"?

 

[fullbass]

You playing the game of "next one will be end game"?

my hobby has no end, otherwise it's not a hobby

 

[jmills8]

my hobby has no end, otherwise it's not a hobby

Once you experienced the top its just shopping to later sale for a loss.

 

[Dorick]

In the iem world, Eleveryone keeps saying xyz iem is my "end game" only to show up in a different thread gushing about some other iem in a few months.

I think we've lost the meaning of the word end game =P

 

[fullbass]

Once you experienced the top its just shopping to later sale for a loss.

I do not agree. All devices have their own sound signature.

If you ate soup, then why do you eat something else? The soup has enough nutrition and ingredients for you to live.

 

[blade74]

I was at the Sony shop in Sapporo a few days ago they had plenty of stock of them.
I had a good listen to them and liked them but have to admit the mids didn’t blow me away.
Bass and treble were really good and it is a very accurate and detailed sounding iem with good separation and soundstage. Mids were still pretty good but at the money I wanted more from them.
It was paired with the Sony NW-WM1Z DAP loaded with random Flac files.

 

[Damz87]

If compare M9 vs Z1R then yes, I agree that M9 (I have it too) has an even more intimate/close mids. But there the general nature of the sound is very close - "in the face". I did not hear a closer sound yet. But given that the Z1R's sound stage is much larger, the mids here is excellent too.

Z1R with M9 mids... That would be epic!

 

[bibit69]

Slight recessed, recessed, behind... i don't mind, because the mids have body, not hollow, not peaky, it's.. yummy

 

[Infoseeker]

I wisb people would stop headmounting cameras.... and use a damn OIS technology Gimbal!

Oh my motion sickness.

 

[Benny-x]

I do not agree. All devices have their own sound signature.

If you ate soup, then why do you eat something else? The soup has enough nutrition and ingredients for you to live.

I think you mean like a hearty, beef & vegetable stew? There are some pretty terrible and non-nutritious/low nutrient value soups out there that you'd definitely die of malnutrition from if that's all you ate.

You need to up your soup and stew game before you go making commments like that.

 

[sabloke]

If you ate soup, then why do you eat something else? The soup has enough nutrition and ingredients for you to live.

Unless that device is steak. You can thrive on steak, believe me. Hope that IER-Z1R will be my beef steak and I know that the MDR-Z1R is my beef roast.

 

[Benny-x]

In the iem world, Eleveryone keeps saying xyz iem is my "end game" only to show up in a different thread gushing about some other iem in a few months.

I think we've lost the meaning of the word end game =P

This kills me. You see it all over head-fi all the time, but I'd agree that those little IEMs seem to get more of it. I wonder on a forum like this, which is gear focused vs. music focused, whether "end game" has ever really had the real meaning? Right here, it pretty much means "these sound great. I'll listen to them while I look for something else that sounds great too".

I've been lurking and posting on these forums since ~2006 and it's always been the same story. But that's all good, the comsumerism drives the hobby, which causes it to evolve and have new things to try. I've certainly continued to buy new gear and enjoy my upgrades.