[fabio19]

https://www.head-fi.org/classifieds/tansio-mirai-zodiac-tsmr-zodiac.23596/

 

[Redcarmoose]

Here is a TSMR Land review just completed.

https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/tansio-mirai-land.25127/reviews#review-29445

 

[Redcarmoose]

 

[Rogue Architect]

The Sands are currently what I'm looking at picking up next. I just added a tube pre-amp into my setup, and was wondering how how it plays into the sound of the sands. If you end up getting a chance to listen to the Sands with tubes, I would be interested to hear your impressions.

I have moved on from normal IEMs after getting the i4 as I don’t ever need isolation and will be selling my Sands if you are interested. I also have the PAC480 cable as well.

 

[Rogue Architect]

That's fine. I might be getting the Sands on the 11/11 sale as my final endgame for audio. Details and clarity are simply important to me. I am hoping the Sands will get a big discount on that day.

Did they have a decent sale or are you still looking?

 

[ExTubeGamer]

Did they have a decent sale or are you still looking?

I simply bought it at the first day of the month. The Sands have arrived and sound good as expected. My tube pre-amp works well with this IEM and the sound really improves a lot with better gear.

 

[Penon]

The cable of Tansio mirai Sands and Akiba can be purchased here now

https://penonaudio.com/tansio-mirai-sands-iem-cable.html

 

[ExTubeGamer]

Using a bright-sounding DAC really changes the Sound of the TSMR Sands. It is immediately obvious. My Sands sounds very good and smooth when I am using a FiiO KA3 but this IEM gets too bright once you plug it into a Link2 BAL.

 

[Nick24JJ]

Guys, have you observed any hissing with the Sands? @ExTubeGamer , @Dsnuts , @Redcarmoose ?

 

[nc8000]

Guys, have you observed any hissing with the Sands? @ExTubeGamer , @Dsnuts , @Redcarmoose ?

No hissing for me with my Sony daps

 

[Redcarmoose]

Guys, have you observed any hissing with the Sands? @ExTubeGamer , @Dsnuts , @Redcarmoose ?

The hissing is from your amp. Where other IEMs don’t quite have the treble plateau which expresses it. Some recordings may have it too.

 

[ExTubeGamer]

Guys, have you observed any hissing with the Sands? @ExTubeGamer , @Dsnuts , @Redcarmoose ?

No hissing with a nice and clean source.

 

[Nick24JJ]

Thank you, guys! I am observing a slight hissing when using the Sands with my FiiO UTWS5. I do not observe this when using them with my 7Hz Timeless or RAPTGO HOOK-X. Right now I have both the Sands and the HOOK-X connected to my Mojo 2. I can hear a faint hissing with the Sands when the playback is stopped. I have paused a song on the Amazon Music App. I can also hear it when I open UAPP. With the HOOK-X, I cannot hear anything.

After further testing, it goes like this:

Sands + BTR7 = dead silent + sounds truly Amazing!! No EQ.
Sands + Qudelix 5K = dead silent + sounds Super Fantastic, just differently from the BTR7! No EQ.
Sands + Mojo 2 = slight hiss + sounds really nice but I have to EQ to decrease the lower treble region
Sands + UTWS5 = slight hiss + sounds fine. No EQ
100: Bass enhancement mode, currently using the HOOK-X stock cable as my PAC480 cable is in the mail

All of my other IEMs and Headphones are dead silent with all of my sources. I am usually listening from my Android phone via Bluetooth (LDAC, LHDC) but for this test I have connected everything to my phone using my ddHiFi USB C cable. Listening to .WAV files saved on my phone using UAPP. Also Amazon Music Unlimited and YouTube.


Yesterday, something weird happened. I have the Sands for some days now, they must have more than 150 hours burn in time/playback time by now. However, only today I've started listening to them. So yesterday, I decided to try another pair of eartips I have. The right IEM tip was giving me a bit of a hard time to pull it off, like it was stuck. Anyway, I placed the other tips on and something was not right, like the right channel was not playing fully or properly. Like I was having channel imbalance. I did some tests, too. After about one hour, while I was listening to music, the right channel opened up and started to play like the left channel again. I did the channel imbalance tests again and both channels were sounding identical. Since then, I have not observed any channel imbalance. But the slight hissing is there.

Do you think that I might have broken something? I do not think so, because I've examined both of them (L/R) and nothing seems broken.

PS: @Redcarmoose , @Dsnuts , suggest me one album to discover what the Sands can truly do, please.
PPS: the stock Tansio Mirai Sands cable does an unbelievably fantastic job on my HOOK-X!!!

 

[Nick24JJ]

Which tips are you, guys, using with the Sands, and why?

I am using the stock, so far, because , my PAC480 cable has not arrived, yet, due to Royal Mail strikes. I'm currently using the HOOK-X stock cable.
If you please, share the genre(s) you're listening to, and your audio chain. Mine is described right above.

Thank you

 

[Dsnuts]

sorry if I haven't gotten back to you on that. I have been swamped with reviews I have been doing lately, I call it the end of year blues. I am sure Red is busy with is review cue as well. I personally use moondrop foams on my set with ARES S UPOCC copper cable. Love to the Sands on the BTR7. Matches well with its slighly warm dynamic sound quality.

Sands with my IBasso DX300Max is insanely great. One of the aboslute best pairing with source and IEM I own actually.