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Apr 26, 2021 at 6:56 PM Post #56,176 of 99,725
Would be a shame if Meze's revamped 12 Classics V2 were overlooked. They are quite awesome indeed.

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Apr 26, 2021 at 7:49 PM Post #56,178 of 99,725
Dsnuts said:
I bet these KS1s sound better than the UM MASON FS! at less than 1/6000ths of the cost!! With that silver cable included!

Most folks that post here are earphone fanatics. I am gonna doubt anyone here has an Ultrasone Pro 900 so I am gonna doubt anyone can compare any of the earphones you seen with that can. I have a few Ultrasone cans myself HFI-580 and HFI -780 but again not exacty what you own there.

Plus earphones are not really gonna sound like ultrasone cans as they use that S logic which makes them sound more spacious. Earphones are directly inside your ears so a different type of sound altogether. You can certainly ask some of the other threads but again unless folks own exactly what you got. No real way to comparing.
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lol, perhaps you’re right. we’ll see in a couple weeks ...
 
Apr 27, 2021 at 4:37 PM Post #56,179 of 99,725
Dsnuts said:


TOTL in the Peanut fi realm. KB EAR KS1 https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/kb-ear-ks1.25011/reviews#review-25751 These sound pretty dang good, not bad for the cost of a cheaper dinner plate.
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Great review & picture! However I do have different opinion about KS1. Granted I only ran them with stock cable/tips via a phone for half an hour, before wrapping them up for return. So take that with grain of salt.

Sound was fairly clean, and packed with moderate dynamics. I found their mids a bit too thin for my liking. Typical V shaped tuning, with somewhat okay bass. They were not very smooth IMO, especially when volume were raised. Again YMMV, it could very well be unit variation for a cheap set. But I'm glad to be a boulder to slow the hype train lol.
 
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Apr 27, 2021 at 5:04 PM Post #56,180 of 99,725
You cant expect much from a sub $20 earphone. I much prefer the KS1 over their KS2 but to be honest these will be used for casual use more than anything and I think really that is what they are made for.

You should have tried that inversion mod I put on the review. That mod is brilliant whomever came up with that. You can make a cheap throw in tip into something substantial and worth using. Tips that came with the KS1 works perfect for that mod.
 
Apr 27, 2021 at 6:56 PM Post #56,181 of 99,725
Dsnuts said:
You cant expect much from a sub $20 earphone. I much prefer the KS1 over their KS2 but to be honest these will be used for casual use more than anything and I think really that is what they are made for.

You should have tried that inversion mod I put on the review. That mod is brilliant whomever came up with that. You can make a cheap throw in tip into something substantial and worth using. Tips that came with the KS1 works perfect for that mod.
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I have both KS1($17) and KZ EDX($7), with stock cable EDX sounded better in resolution/bass-response/mid richness, If you have not, give EDX a try👍
 
Apr 27, 2021 at 9:28 PM Post #56,187 of 99,725
Initial impression (vs. Volt): Bravado mk2 sounds bit too bass heavy for my taste. It is clean, articulate and dynamic bass that should work really well if I were to listen mostly house, pop, r&b, EDM music, but it is quite distracting with classical music as the cello section sounds more like an army of double-bassists. I attenuated about 4-5dBs of bass with a low shelf filter and sound is more pleasing now.
Above its sizable bass hump – from the upper bass region and up through the treble - the Bravado is on the whole bit more accurate-sounding than the Volt. The Volt has more mid/upper bass, and a result suffers from a bit more bass bleed. This, in turn, results in lower midrange clarity. The soundstage of the Bravado doesn’t have the sheer width of earphones with more laid-back mids (like the Volt and Z1R), but it ends up sounding well-layered and versatile.

PMV PP: Barely listenable after Bravado and nothing special in any way. Timbre is off and clarity is non existent, with some harshness in upper Mids. The lower mids are muffled/veiled.
 
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Apr 27, 2021 at 9:45 PM Post #56,188 of 99,725
Apr 27, 2021 at 9:46 PM Post #56,189 of 99,725
tgx78 said:
....as the cello section sounds more like an army of double-bassists...
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Ha ha... that’s a good one.

Great assessment. For me the bass is so clean and articulate I quite like the boost for the new classical/ classical crossover type stuff and ambient. I don’t really listen to orchestral classical more small chamber stuff so the bass doesn’t get in the way so much. Not an iem for everything but a fun tuning and very well done in the mids and treble with great clarity.

Too bad about the PMV.. I was wondering what that would be like.
 
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Apr 27, 2021 at 9:53 PM Post #56,190 of 99,725
SBranson said:
Ha ha... that’s a good one.

Great assessmentFor me the bass is so clean and articulate I quite like the boost. I don’t really listen to orchestral classical more small chamber stuff so the bass doesn’t get in the way so much.

Too bad about the PMV.. I was wondering what that would be like.
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It has a planar driver I think.. will burn it in for few days and re-assess.

I just tried some Rock, Pop and EDM with Bravado and wow! probably cleanest sounding bass I’ve ever heard in IEM
 
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