[MVVp]

I’d personally give a good 10 hour running with sea-elf playing musics, LCP driver has tendency to sound rough and distorted right out of the box.

Yep, I already did some 6 hours burn-in yesterday after first listening for a minute, and continuing now. But most of the distortion disappeared with lower volume.

 

[Carpet]

Yep, I already did some 6 hours burn-in yesterday after first listening for a minute, and continuing now. But most of the distortion disappeared with lower volume.

Overnight streaming while I'm asleep normally does the job. I say normally, because sometimes I turn the screen on the next morning, to find things awfully quiet and a little pink box reading "I'm sorry but Tidal forgot how to use the effing internet again!".

 

[DynamicEars]

I can't say I am not tempted. Damn good price for them woodies. Still have my FX850. But I got bigger fish to fry.

Graph courtesy of @tgx78

Wow graph almost perfect, personal nitpicking will be little boost on exact 6khz, and the last extension of 15khz because it is handled by ESTs
Bass shelf and pinna gain is great.
Definitely s class tuning better than other penon's

 

[Leonarfd]

Sea-Elf does provide better control after my 30ish hours burn in and 10 hours usage. Better defined vocals and bass in particular.

Have not mentioned anything about the looks, for me its okay. The resin is made well, except for maybe a big shell the ergonomics are good. The purple and white inlay is inserted under some clear resin, the thing looking the cheapest probably the the inlay. If you put it besides something with stabilized wood you see the difference quite clear, so the inlay is maybe a print of some sort.

I received the Sea Elf yesterday and listened to it last night. First impression was harsh and distorted, but then I realized my Fiio M11 Ltd volume was set way too high because of the planars I have been listening to and toned it down around 7 steps. It has a totally different sound of course than those planars but I like it and despite the rather big size, they don't bother me when sleeping on my side.

The cable is very nice, thick but flexible and soft, and it has the protruding end that many of my iems need but hardly any 2-pin cable offers.

I’d personally give a good 10 hour running with sea-elf playing musics, LCP driver has tendency to sound rough and distorted right out of the box.

 

[AmericanSpirit]

Flo Audio Lily arrived today. Not exactly a planned purchase. These had a coupon that was expiring soon and I hadn't minded the Calla, so I exhibited my usual level of self control. Medium sized solid resin IEM with minimal accessories. Initial impressions were bad until I realized I had a bad seal and changed from my usual 07 tips to CP100. Yes, the fit is a little shallow (not quite as bad as a BL-03). Having changed to longer tips they had bass, a lot of bass. Treble is slightly rolled off, not annoyingly boosted to cater to the treble indulgent crowd (think Harmon). The single BA is doing a great job and there's only so much extension you can wring out of it (I'm sure if it was Knowles they would have managed to "casually" mention that amongst the promotional material on their site). A Japanese article on these someone posted a while back, recommended an 80 Ohm impedance adapter for a flatter response. Yuck! If that's what an ER2SE sounds like, I'm glad I've never tried to ram one into my brain. I had a 30 Ohm adapter lying around so I tried that instead. Much more palatable. Still kept some of the bass boost, but cleaned things up and gave a more balanced sound. I haven't had time to A/B it with anything else yet. I'll be interested to see how it matches up to KZ AS16Pro and Audiosense DT100 (when it gets here). I'm glad I picked this up rather than the TRN X7 which was about the same price on special!

Oh, and the following cable works well on it: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004394239656.html

​

actually I‘m cable rolling with KBEAR Neon and noticed when recabled Neon actually sounds pretty engaging as a single ED29689, of course not ER4 level of resolutions, but certainly Neon has gained life over its full-range knowles.

Since I had no use for Linsoul’s LSC08 recently it’s laughable that cable itself costs higher than Neon itself, but it has a good match.

So that motivated me to try exploring feasibility of another ED29689 single BA with pretty full-resin (I’m a sucker for full-resin because it looks beautiful!) filled Flo Audio Lily.

The official store is offering $21 discount from their $44 MSRP, so it comes down to $23.9! Pretty good deal.

I will expect Lily to be arriving in couple of weeks. Probably I can do a single ED29689 cross comparison of which I bet not many have done for ER4 vs Neon vs Lily.

Recabled Neon sounds very light and agile, and not too boring when compared to stock rather mushy transient. It has good synergy with easy listening type ambient music.

 

[Leonarfd]

With the drivers and graph, this looks like TOTL IEM to me, we are still waiting for Penon to give out the price. I have a feeling that will happen after more reviewers have had the demo unit tested.
Who knows maybe they will make a big Impact with this release

For me this means no more early Fridays for some time forward, time to earn some cash.

I can't say I am not tempted. Damn good price for them woodies. Still have my FX850. But I got bigger fish to fry.

Graph courtesy of @tgx78

 

[baskingshark]

With the drivers and graph, this looks like TOTL IEM to me, we are still waiting for Penon to give out the price. I have a feeling that will happen after more reviewers have had the demo unit tested.
Who knows maybe they will make a big Impact with this release

For me this means no more early Fridays for some time forward, time to earn some cash.

There is a reason why we are born with 2 kidneys.

1 can be sold for audio gear!

 

[Carpet]

There is a reason why we are born with 2 kidneys.

1 can be sold for audio gear!

ONE? Have you seen what you can get for two now. When I was young, that would have cost you an arm and a leg!

 

[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

Won't be trading or selling the Tansio Mirai Sands. This is a special IEM. Once you get the right components around it, they provide a wide 3D airy transparent soundscape that's addicting. $300.00? No, this punches right through the $600-$700 level and plays like a less power hungry N5005, with better treble and such engaging bass! HOO WAH! That bass resolution!

 

[baskingshark]

In 2023, we will have to see which pokemon is going to be the winner:

1) weekly KZ
2) weekly collab
3) weekly harman $20 budget sidegrade
4) weekly waifu


I have a sneaky suspicion KZ will still rule the roost when it comes to quantity and productivity of releases (but probably not win in quality of releases).

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:

KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

 

[552609]

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:






KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

At least it looks cool.

 

[Tzennn]

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:






KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

10k peak iem? i'm in

 

[AmericanSpirit]

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:






KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

FR looks smooth, hmm. Actually I’m interested if the price is 39.99 ish.

10mm LCP + Sonion 2389 is interesting combination.

Now everyone learned LCP is where they have to face for DD. I’m glad

 

[Carpet]

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:






KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

Assuming I was dumb enough to subscribe to hype trains, it's only an oxygen free copper SPC cable and pretty resin shells are a dime a dozen now. Admittedly there's a Sonion BA. So I wonder how much they actually want for this sucker. Hell, I'd pay twice what the Canpur 1&1 cost!

 

[o0genesis0o]

I made the above prediction at the start of 2023. K I'll put up my hands and admit I was wrong, KZ has been having radio-silence since the start of 2023! (Probably they got hit by covid or are preparing for Chinese new year, wishing them well!)

And it seems the Weekly collabs are the runaway winners now. We had the Khan, the Nanna 2.1 thingy and a now a new one.

Current score:
+100 to collabs
0 to weekly KZ
0 to waifu
0 to budget sidegrade harman spam


https://hifigo.com/products/letshuoer-x-gizaudio-galileo

Letshuoer GizAudio collab, called the Galileo:






KZ and waifus, where are you hiding?

You surely can’t be serious about that graph. What’s the point of having a target if the collab does not hit it? And what’s with the upper treble extension? Are we sure we are not copying Shure SE215?

10k peak iem? i'm in

Why would you want 10k peak. It overloads the treble region and destroys the 3D illusion of the soundstage