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Mar 26, 2024 at 12:17 PM Post #97,906 of 101,281
Wide soundstage is result of tuning and placement of drivers? Or some other special sauce?
Driver quality + great tuning (especially on 8khz - around 12/13khz), resonance of the cavity.
Special sauce is additional wow factor like bone conductor in Mests series

*edit : oh v or u shaped tuning also helps to perceive wider soundstage than forwarded vocal tuning.
 
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Mar 26, 2024 at 12:19 PM Post #97,907 of 101,281
Wide soundstage is result of tuning and placement of drivers? Or some other special sauce?
@KarmaPhala you have caught up with the latest message, Yay! (I always get bemused by the notifications when your name props up with a 'like' to a message sent couple of weeks back. My god you religiously been catching up with the posts here boss! Much respect!
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 12:21 PM Post #97,908 of 101,281
Driver quality + great tuning (especially on 8khz - around 12/13khz), resonance of the cavity.
Special sauce is additional wow factor like bone conductor in Mests series

*edit : oh v or u shaped tuning also helps to perceive wider soundstage than forwarded vocal tuning.
Thanks! Bone Conductor, eh. Hmmm, should save up for one of those. But these frickin KZs, dongles, daps (all budget) take my money away!
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM Post #97,909 of 101,281
Friends. What have you bought at this Aliexpress Anniversary sale? What is the damage to the wallet?

Any worthwhile deals?
I ordered the Geek Wold GK20 and a Tiandirenhe TD18 cable (0.78 pin, 8N 100% "high purity monocrystalline copper", 2.5mm/3.5mm/4.4mm modular plugs).

I spend some time trying to decide between the Geek Wold GK20 and the Kinera Celest Plutus Beast, which has a somewhat similar graph, but very different driver tech (the Plutus Beast uses bone conduction to augment the low frequencies). I ended up going with the GK20 because I felt like the Plutus Beast would end up being a bit more niche/specialized than what I was looking for, since I listen to a very diverse range of genres... though I think a side-by-side comparison of the two would be interesting!
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM Post #97,910 of 101,281
The budget DD market is crazy at the moment after spending 6 hours continuously listening to the Kefine Delci a £50 DD built like a £200 iem that's just amazingly musical BASS elevated natural sounding signature that just presents music in a lush detailed way with fantastic soundstage like a refined 500 series Simgot with smoother upper mids/lower treble.
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Mar 26, 2024 at 12:46 PM Post #97,911 of 101,281
The budget DD market is crazy at the moment after spending 6 hours continuously listening to the Kefine Delci a £50 DD built like a £200 iem that's just amazingly musical BASS elevated natural sounding signature that just presents music in a lush detailed way with fantastic soundstage like a refined 500 series Simgot with smoother upper mids/lower treble.20240326_135409.jpg
How do they compare to OD200?
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 12:52 PM Post #97,912 of 101,281
How do they compare to OD200?
I haven't done a side by side comparison but similar organic/analogue signature I'd say the Oriveti has more depth. But at a quarter of the cost makes the Delci very attractive
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 1:07 PM Post #97,913 of 101,281
The budget DD market is crazy at the moment after spending 6 hours continuously listening to the Kefine Delci a £50 DD built like a £200 iem that's just amazingly musical BASS elevated natural sounding signature that just presents music in a lush detailed way with fantastic soundstage like a refined 500 series Simgot with smoother upper mids/lower treble.

@baskingshark also had a very v positive review on it ... https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/authors/baskingshark.516219/reviews. Looks a winner! Budget kings all around by the look of it: CCA Trio, Kefine Delci ... ( i like my Castor Bass too (15$) ). It would be interesting to see how Dunu Titan S2 sounds and how it's priced.
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 1:13 PM Post #97,914 of 101,281
Dunu Vulkan reborn?
That’s kind of what I’m thinking as well. With Dunu titan S and that driver configuration seems about a good price range.
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM Post #97,915 of 101,281
Driver quality + great tuning (especially on 8khz - around 12/13khz), resonance of the cavity.
Meanwhile KZ tuners somewhere: "12? 13?!? Frequencies go that high? Uhh numbers go that high?!!"

The budget DD market is crazy at the moment after spending 6 hours continuously listening to the Kefine Delci a £50 DD built like a £200 iem that's just amazingly musical BASS elevated natural sounding signature that just presents music in a lush detailed way with fantastic soundstage like a refined 500 series Simgot with smoother upper mids/lower tre20240326_135409.jpg
Seems to be a well tuned thing, but it honestly looks about $10 worth.
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 2:08 PM Post #97,916 of 101,281
Meanwhile KZ tuners somewhere: "12? 13?!? Frequencies go that high? Uhh numbers go that high?!!"


Seems to be a well tuned thing, but it honestly looks about $10 worth.
That's a matter of taste. I'm a fan of subtle, minimalistic design. Plus it simply dissappears in your ears you can even lay your head on a pillow while wearing it comfortably
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM Post #97,917 of 101,281
That's a matter of taste. I'm a fan of subtle, minimalistic design. Plus it simply dissappears in your ears you can even lay your head on a pillow while wearing it comfortably
Oh definitely agree there, I'd be the first to reach for an elegant looking set over a hey-look-at-me one. But this one looks to me like a sum total of 0 effort was put into its design.
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM Post #97,918 of 101,281
I really like the sound of my PR3 but the mids are too disappointing.
Any advice with the same kind of sound and stage, under 200€ ?
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 2:53 PM Post #97,919 of 101,281
If the bass is anything similar to the Falcon Ultra i am in
Timmy told me today that it's not a Harmon tuned IEM so that's exciting.
 
Mar 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM Post #97,920 of 101,281
Timmy told me today that it's not a Harmon tuned IEM so that's exciting.
Just hope it's got some bottom end as timmy seems to like lots of top for his poison vocals
 

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