[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

Jeez, the cable looks like a garden hose, even down to the colour

Did you buy this cable?

It's being billed as possibly the thickest cable in the market. $600 for the new Garden Hose. Apparently proprietary design and pure copper throughout.

 

[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

Last year I have auditioned a lot of top-tier stuff man. My priorities are set at EE Odin/Aroma audio Jewel+Oriolus Trailli. One between Odin and Jewel, and Trailli is fixed. May take me some years to go for them, but they are the true end game for me(with all the experience I have had to date). Odin and Jewel are very close in performance yet they are having a huge difference in price. Obviously, the Jewel is better but is it worth that much money difference? I will audition again before pulling the plug on either of them.

Also, I am not a VIP man, a friend of mine got it, so I requested him to share the prototype with me for a few days. This prototype will go back to Effect Audio.

Spent some time last night at MusicTeck and almost pulled the trigger on a couple open box items, but instead stood my ground since my IEM's shipped from Linsoul. The costs for these "endgame" IEM's are simply out of control. $6,000 for the Triallelalala or whatever it's called. That's a sizeable down payment on a house or a vehicle. The Odin and Jewel aren't too far off the asking price of the Traiallalala. It must be good to be single? Hope you save up enough for this luxury item?!

 

[emdeevee]

It's being billed as possibly the thickest cable in the market. $600 for the new Garden Hose. Apparently proprietary design and pure copper throughout.

My new ares 8w is bloody thick!

 

[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

Ordered one, been on cable spree lately. Even if the IEM is lack luster the cable makes up for some of it.

If I'm not wrong it's Hakugei Peace 2C with modular connections, who knows after testing maybe I give them to my wife who loves purple and keep the cable myself

I did the same. Ordered it for the cable. I've been looking for a cable that's modular with lightning and USB-c. Why not? I could care less about the IEM's.

 

[AmericanSpirit]

Spent some time last night at MusicTeck and almost pulled the trigger on a couple open box items, but instead stood my ground since my IEM's shipped from Linsoul. The costs for these "endgame" IEM's are simply out of control. $6,000 for the Triallelalala or whatever it's called. That's a sizeable down payment on a house or a vehicle. The Odin and Jewel aren't too far off the asking price of the Traiallalala. It must be good to be single? Hope you save up enough for this luxury item?!

Haha be shocked!

Oriolus actually increased the offering to $1234200 JPY for fun. $9.3k USD at today rate for Trailiiiiiiii. 4EST+8BA.

It is a company bond that comes with IEM, you invest in the house tuning and willing to support the craftsmen. A luxury hobby for sure

I bet Thieaudio’s Prestige could hit near that with 4EST+4BA+1DD 5way crossover though.

 

[Vonbuddy]

 

[ToneDeafMonk]

This is a post on Sharur's latest video that cracked me up.

Karma Komodo​

2 hours ago
To everyone that has returned or sold their good headphones due to last video: remember this is the guy whose 90% of videos are him correcting something he got wrong on another video. Just a couple videos ago he was talking about how he preferred inverted polarity. Don't make buying or selling decisions based on this channel alone.

Lol that video is so funny how much he got wrong speakers are in phase / out of phase / or absolutely out of phase with each other as a pair . Most people can hear out of phase or learn to but reversed polarity on both IEM causes absolutely out of phase and the sound will be the same without cancelling each other out you won't be able to hear the difference.

Sometimes this is done on purpose as a way of correcting time coherence a kind of way of time alignment but always done in pairs.

 

[ChrisOc]

Oriolus actually increased the offering to $1234200 JPY for fun. $9.3k USD at today rate for Trailiiiiiiii. 4EST+8BA.

You mean I could walk around with someone's car in my ears!

Oh, I see, 5 way crossover! That is fine then, it is worth $9K

 

[AmericanSpirit]

You mean I could walk around with someone's car in my ears!

Oh, I see, 5 way crossover! That is fine then, it is worth $9K

Yea that $9.3k is a highball for sure

You see someone is playing with number just for fun. 1234200. Definitely just “lol ill make it 1234k!”

Thieaudio Prestige 4EST+4BA+1DD 5 way cross over is $1,299 USD, new flagship of Thieaudio after their Monarch MKII release. More realistic TOTL.

I still feel a bit too pricey, but maybe you can find mint secondhand one for less than $1k.

 

[ChrisOc]

Yea that $9.3k is a highball for sure

You see someone is playing with number just for fun. 1234200. Definitely just “lol ill make it 1234k!”

Thieaudio Prestige 4EST+4BA+1DD 5 way cross over is $1,299 USD, new flagship of Thieaudio after their Monarch MKII release. More realistic TOTL.

I still feel a bit too pricey, but maybe you can find mint secondhand one for less than $1k.

Unfortunately, I am not in that market.

The sound worth a fortune is my child laughing, that makes me happy. Soppy, I know, but that is me.

 

[lgcubana]

Maybe KiiBoom Allure is a choice to consider

Interesting search results on Amazon

 

[lgcubana]

It's being billed as possibly the thickest cable in the market. $600 for the new Garden Hose. Apparently proprietary design and pure copper throughout.

Thicker than the DragonScale ?!?!

 

[o0genesis0o]

Spent some time last night at MusicTeck and almost pulled the trigger on a couple open box items, but instead stood my ground since my IEM's shipped from Linsoul. The costs for these "endgame" IEM's are simply out of control. $6,000 for the Triallelalala or whatever it's called. That's a sizeable down payment on a house or a vehicle. The Odin and Jewel aren't too far off the asking price of the Traiallalala. It must be good to be single? Hope you save up enough for this luxury item?!

I do wish that I can audition those crazy high-end IEMs to see what the fuss is about. I admire those who are financially successful (or irresponsible?) enough to add all of the birds, jewels, obravo, storm, etc. to their collection to pair with their A&K SP3000.

My kilobuck hunt last year left me sober and cynical about super expensive IEMs. They are good, but not god-like good, car-deposit good. The kilobuck gets more uncompelling with every new mid-fi release. For example, with FH15 and G5, connected to my phone via LDAC, I can hear the mouth sound of the narrator in a YouTube video (trek trendy). What more details do you want / can you hear

The Sony Z1R might worth the price, though. I haven’t heard any IEM with that kind of presentation.

 

[InvisibleInk]

Yea that $9.3k is a highball for sure

You see someone is playing with number just for fun. 1234200. Definitely just “lol ill make it 1234k!”

Thieaudio Prestige 4EST+4BA+1DD 5 way cross over is $1,299 USD, new flagship of Thieaudio after their Monarch MKII release. More realistic TOTL.

I still feel a bit too pricey, but maybe you can find mint secondhand one for less than $1k.

I would never even hear those electrostatic tweeters at my age.

 

[Jmop]

Allure is a good buy for technicalities at $100, though the relatively slower bass, treble scoop at 6-8k, and upper treble roll off make it a very warm set.