and all the more expensive. US $ 499 !!! For an electronic key? They seem to be in dire need of money.
The second usb for power supply is a good thing. Single ES9038Q2M. Power output is not declared.
Understanding why it is so much better Shanling UP5 at the price of 170 - on a twin Saber ES9219C, for me personally - is difficult.
Unless if you get it as a gift.
Any idea of proposed pricepoint or price range?Something wicked to come this way.
Specification
You know it was only gonna be a matter of time before the follow up to the H40 would be released. The final tuning seems to be done. They have clearly toiled over this one and it has to be a level above their most sucessful earphones the ISN H40. Not to be confused with the EST50 the H50 will be out soon. Will let you all know how it is when they get the green light.
- Model: H50
- Driver: 4 Balanced Armature +1 Dynamic driver
- 4BA: 2BA for high frequency，2BA for middle frequency
- 1 Dynamic: 10mm composite diaphragm Dynamic driver for bass
- Impedance: 25ohm
- Sensitivity: 108dB
- Frequency response: 20-20kHz
- 3 channels 3-way crossover
- Connector: MMCX
- Plug: Gold-plated
- Cable length: 1.2M
I had a loaner set for this model. To be blunt, the Ceres are one of the worst sets I've listened to this year.
Very weird L shaped tuning. Big bloated bass, recessed mids and dark treble, but a spike around the 10ish kHz region. Blunted dynamics, poor microdetails and instrument separation and clarity. Above average soundstage, imaging and layering are the only redeeming parts of the tuning. BA timbre tops everything off. The mid bass bleed eats into the other frequencies and the tuning is really incoherent.
I burned them in for almost 100 hours, and at first I thought that I had received a defective pair. But the channels match well, and I've seen a few other reviewers and consumers who bought this set have similar impressions.
They look very nice though. But for the asking price of $180 USD, they are really overpriced, and the technicalities are no better than a sub $30 - 50 USD set. Generally hybrids beat single DD in technicalities at the budget segment, but the Ceres also lose to some single DD at the $100 region in technical performance.
TLDR: They look much better than they sound; hard pass unless you are a very treble sensitive person who likes an analoguish sound.
Shozy and their dark treble. totally sounds like their house sound.I had a loaner set for this model. To be blunt, the Ceres are one of the worst sets I've listened to this year.
Very weird L shaped tuning. Big bloated bass, recessed mids and dark treble, but a spike around the 10ish kHz region. Blunted dynamics, poor microdetails and instrument separation and clarity. Above average soundstage, imaging and layering are the only redeeming parts of the tuning. BA timbre tops everything off. The mid bass bleed eats into the other frequencies and the tuning is really incoherent.
I burned them in for almost 100 hours, and at first I thought that I had received a defective pair. But the channels match well, and I've seen a few other reviewers and consumers who bought this set have similar impressions.
They look very nice though. But for the asking price of $180 USD, they are really overpriced, and the technicalities are no better than a sub $30 - 50 USD set. Generally hybrids beat single DD in technicalities at the budget segment, but the Ceres also lose to some single DD at the $100 region in technical performance.
TLDR: They look much better than they sound; hard pass unless you are a very treble sensitive person who likes an analoguish sound.
I'm an R2R dac fanboy,SMSL announced it's flagship desktop dac, the VMV D2.
https://hifigo.com/blogs/news/s-m-s-l-vmv-d2-latest-flagship-mqa-dac-with-ak4499-premium-dac-chip
It was a bit startling when watching Akros (@Tonytex on here) reviewing a bunch of sets in other videos and he's generally able to find redeeming qualities about them, then he gets to these and his disappointment in Shozy's tuning was palpable through the video.
The sad part is that the graph for GS Audio's cheapest set looks more sensible than the one for the Ceres.I had a loaner set for this model. To be blunt, the Ceres are one of the worst sets I've listened to this year.
Very weird L shaped tuning. Big bloated bass, recessed mids and dark treble, but a spike around the 10ish kHz region. Blunted dynamics, poor microdetails and instrument separation and clarity. Above average soundstage, imaging and layering are the only redeeming parts of the tuning. BA timbre tops everything off. The mid bass bleed eats into the other frequencies and the tuning is really incoherent.
I burned them in for almost 100 hours, and at first I thought that I had received a defective pair. But the channels match well, and I've seen a few other reviewers and consumers who bought this set have similar impressions.
They look very nice though. But for the asking price of $180 USD, they are really overpriced, and the technicalities are no better than a sub $30 - 50 USD set. Generally hybrids beat single DD in technicalities at the budget segment, but the Ceres also lose to some single DD at the $100 region in technical performance.
TLDR: They look much better than they sound; hard pass unless you are a very treble sensitive person who likes an analoguish sound.
