Did you say holographic Need to add to my “to buy one day” list.
Speaking of holographic, rediscovering an old IEM today:
The nicehck discount cable is great. Does not add strange echos or muddiness to the sound of Andro like my FiiO and XINHS cables. Cable itself is well behaved and not microphonic. I should have picked a different colour though. The set up looks like a Vietnamese dessert.
@awacs7n : wow, that sounds like horrible experience. I have had angry emails from manufacturers because I didn’t give their stuffs 5/5. And then some folks just randomly ghosted.
At the end of the day, make no mistake: Reviews based on samples are marketing materials, at very least to get the words out that such and such IEM exist. For example, Sound Rhyme wouldn’t be that hyped without some brave souls here buying and spreading the worlds.
The best situation is when manufacturers have actually done a good job. Every article I write takes at least 10 hours, regardless whether an item is $ or $$$$$$. It would be, and has been, nightmare to be stuck with awful or bland stuffs for two weeks. The worst thing would be to wake up on a weekend morning and receive angry email about how “the review was not fair”, and then some asshats accusing of “hyping” (usually the same item appears in both cases)
@awacs7n : wow, that sounds like horrible experience. I have had angry emails from manufacturers because I didn’t give their stuffs 5/5. And then some folks just randomly ghosted.
At the end of the day, make no mistake: Reviews based on samples are marketing materials, at very least to get the words out that such and such IEM exist. For example, Sound Rhyme wouldn’t be that hyped without some brave souls here buying and spreading the worlds.
The best situation is when manufacturers have actually done a good job. Every article I write takes at least 10 hours, regardless whether an item is $ or $$$$$$. It would be, and has been, nightmare to be stuck with awful or bland stuffs for two weeks. The worst thing would be to wake up on a weekend morning and receive angry email about how “the review was not fair”, and then some asshats accusing of “hyping”.
it took me 20 iems to realize that quality is more important than quantity. i now the commercial concerns of the companies, but this year i contacted a lot of stupid companies. There are 7 - 8 products waiting for review, after the reviews are over, i'm thinking of taking a break for a while and completing some of my missing iems. time is really valuable
May or may not potentially throw even more fuel into the fire.
I just remembered like a year ago when looking for a replacement mouse since the last one stopped left clicking altogether. There's something special I noticed in this industry. I kept finding in top 10 gaming mice or similar countdowns mice that were all over the place pricing wise.
Sure, you'd probably find some $500 Finalmouse at the very top, but the $30 or so Cooler Master MM710 can apparently perform so well that it makes it to the lower half or so of the top 10.
I don't think I've seen any other industry where reviewers collectively agree that you can save like 95% of your money by simply not going for that last 1%. Like that's how hard returns diminish in gaming mice world.
At least FPS gaming mice world anyways.
Meanwhile if you sort list of best IEMs by highest rating you'll probably not find any IEM below quadruple digits until you go at least 20 places below. And you may start to find double digit priced IEMs in the 100th.
Well, Crinacle does have Thieaudio Monarch at 6 for 730.
But then again his last mayor update was in like october 2021. So maybe there would be a lot more entries in the top 10 for under $1000.
And in case you're asking. He rounds the Monarch MKII's price to exactly $1000. So it doesn't count.
Honestly, I don’t think they reach the level of ridiculous that dual woofers in a car can achieve. Legato’s tune is actually much more musical than that. If you want indiscriminate bass blasters Beats still has you covered.
Honestly, I don’t think they reach the level of ridiculous that dual woofers in a car can achieve. Legato’s tune is actually much more musical than that. If you want indiscriminate bass blasters Beats still has you covered.
So I think the only conclusion I can immediately draw from this is that one costs more up front, the other needs a separate adapter and may need a dedicated amplifier... Assuming both of them don't need one already.
Also one of them may need a notch at 7kHz.
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Of course every time I think about whether I need new headgear or not I come back to improvising filters for these to keep them functional.
I wonder if anyone has come up with hydrophobic filters so I don't have to be constantly changing filters on these things.
Which reminds me of something. If I were to buy some new IEMs. Would they just get clogged by moisture eventually unless you straight up don't have a filter?
haha maybe the boss of Night Oblivion loves WoW, not sure about that part. He is a very professional man.
Night Oblivion has been around in Chinese domestic market like Sound Rhyme, and had zero exposures to international market.
Their existing line ups are very high performing but the their tunings are somehow Chinese domestic market oriented, so I asked the boss that if he is interested in international market which I’m familiar and offered to develop a model together.
He agreed, so I started to look for investors/sponsors for this project, asked a few and Penon’s big boss raised his hand after listening to the first prototype.
Since then we worked together and made many prototypes, tuning attempts, with different drivers.
The Prototype v5 finally met our goal and we decided to release this Project Butastur into international market in hoping Night Oblivion to establish a new market.
If successful we will develop entry level model with fewer drivers and lower price, as well as flagship level.
Butastar is like HEXA, but since we already have extremely competitive sub100 market, this project is trying another HEXA for higher priced range, with higher technicalities.
I was really hoping in Truthear to release their flagship model with 10BA and tuning switches, and got disappointed to see all they did for past 3 months are reshooting the Zero
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Need to add to my “to buy one day” list.
