[Selenium]

7550 would be more boring but I actually loved those. Ex1000 was too sibilant but otherwise amazing. I thought the 600 was a baby 1000?

I had the 600 and the 1000 at the same time. They sounded almost exactly the same to my ears, with the 1000 having better resolution. One night I grabbed the 600 thinking it was the 1000 and it took me several songs before I realized it.

Recently when I was going back and forth on what to get, the 600, 7550, or 1000 I saw the 600 for like $120, but I waited too long and someone snapped it up. But it worked out since I got the 7550 for a good price along with the EX1000 cable.

 

[dweaver]

Danny did I sell my 7550 to you?

I too found the EX1000 to sibilant for me. I actually found the EX1000 much harder to get a good fit than the 7550 due to its longer nozzle so it always had to be adjusted a fiddled with. The Z5 thankfully was more like the 7550 in this area of design. The EX1000 looked cooler but just not very practical.

 

[Ahmad313]

So the other cable I got are for my Rhythmos. Guys that eventually took a chance on them are in for a little surprise. The sound out of the Rhythmos in balanced is CRAZY! No hype just saying. This is the other cable I got today.

So both these cables were from the recent 12/12 sales. While prices were not as good as 11/11. It was good enough. The previous SPC 2 pin cable was bought for $21 and this one here was a bit more expensive at $48 but was worth it.

If i am not working it is LZ crystal Cooper cable , right ,??

 

[ericp10]

The EX1000 was like excellent sound while putting shards of glass in my ears. The Z5 is an amazing earphone! I still own the H3 and think it has decent sound too, but the Sony Z5 is on a different level.

 

[doctorjazz]

Did my head-fi friend ever get the iSine20 yet? I forget who it was (want to say doctorjazz but might be wrong). Regardless, did you get it and how do you like it?

I got them... Haven't had a chance to listen to them much (been focusing on the lower Campfire Audio headphones I have). Threw them in last night, really nice sounding)(but such a weird fit). More later...

 

[jant71]

OK, remembering now, there were two EX600's. I had the bassy one. Actually IT01 would have probably kicked it to the curb. They changed the amount of foam in the nozzle but it was only in there with one dot of glue. I cut it down to the perfect amount and got beautiful treble out of them. The right amount. They may have over compensated after criticism of their ear rapey ways in the EX700 and Japan versions of the EX600 and EX1000. I wasn't that happy out of the box with the dull over damped sound of them. So, my pair was perhaps in between two extremes and not gonna conform to the group

 

[DannyBai]

Danny did I sell my 7550 to you?

I too found the EX1000 to sibilant for me. I actually found the EX1000 much harder to get a good fit than the 7550 due to its longer nozzle so it always had to be adjusted a fiddled with. The Z5 thankfully was more like the 7550 in this area of design. The EX1000 looked cooler but just not very practical.

Yes, I bought the 7550 from you. I agree the 7550 fit much better then the 1000. Wish I had tried the Z5’s. H3’s were pretty good.

 

[Selenium]

I found the H3 to be pretty unremarkable, but I do wish I could try the Z5. When it first hit the scene I was turned off by its apparently dark signature, but who knows, maybe I'd get over that with a little brain-in.

 

[Dsnuts]

No brain burn in necessary on the Z5. It is a crazy emmersive sound with a treble I have not yet heard in any earphone. Silky extension and smoothness with a wide deep stage it is the opitome of a refined Sony house sound. I can imagine what their flagship headphone the Z1R is tuned like. Will own the Z1R at one point but the Z5 in balanced I have yet to get any earphone to sound like. It will blow the collective minds of anyone that throws that earphone in balanced mode.

 

[Ahmad313]

New discovery ,

 

[jant71]

In 2015 maybe...https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the...d-mee-audio-px.586909/page-2057#post-11995718

What do you think this is, the help and introductions thread? You gotta do your homework!

 

[tim0chan]

No brain burn in necessary on the Z5. It is a crazy emmersive sound with a treble I have not yet heard in any earphone. Silky extension and smoothness with a wide deep stage it is the opitome of a refined Sony house sound. I can imagine what their flagship headphone the Z1R is tuned like. Will own the Z1R at one point but the Z5 in balanced I have yet to get any earphone to sound like. It will blow the collective minds of anyone that throws that earphone in balanced mode.

I have to disagree. I think thats if u dont even have the chance to try any of the flagships from any other brands. Heck even some of the lower tier brands such as the polaris and the lyra pulls of a similar signature better. Get better exposure and dont be the frog in the well

 

[jant71]

WOW, WOW, and WOW! A shot at the Ds experience level!

 

[tim0chan]

WOW, WOW, and WOW a shot at the Ds experience level!

I can see that he has a lot of experience at the high mid to lower tiers for iems but have not seen anything to suggest that he has tried anything of higher tier such as dita dream, dita answer, beyerdynamic xelentos, ak t8ie mk2, campfire polaris, dorado , lyra vega, aaw axh, aaw w500 unique melody merlin, unique melody martians, 64 audio tia fourte ,oriolus ( just to name some of the hybrids and dds i have tried) Just saying before u say this is the best iem, try some others. Or just say that this is the best iem u tried and say that u havent tried the higher tiers.

 

[Dsnuts]

IMO the Z5s sound great with the stuff I use. Excuse me if I don't own all the expensive stuff. I can go to my local meet and hear all I need to know about summit fi and I have. For me I own a lot of mid teir stuff. Never really all that curious with high end I have heard them plenty at Rocky Moutain Can Jams. Sure higher end stuff sounds great and sounds better than most of my gears but for me audio is about what is attainable for me. I choose not to throw in a down payment for a car on audio. Don't need to do it to enjoy audio. I know there are plenty of great sounding high end stuff. But I enjoy music and don't get into the game of what is the next high end I need to get that will be "Better.". I have a mortgage and 3 cars with two growing boys I have to feed first before I can even consider splurging on myself. Audio is a hobby I get into and what I get a kick out of is finding something like an IT01 that punches way above their price point. Hense the whole idea of the discovery thread.

Overall I might not have heard all the latest TOTL stuff and don't care to be completely honest but I can guarantee I have heard way more low fi and mid fi stuff than you will even get a chance to and you know what? I learn just a bit more about sonic stuff every day because of it. I am actually proud of that.