keesue
100+ Head-Fier
Something youse guys all know too well, I'm sure. I ordered a set of InAwaken Dawn MS IEMs on a lark purchase. I plugged into my desktop FIIO K7 to give an uncolored listen as I always do for a first listen. I can usually get a handle on transparency and dynamics with the FIIO. They were lifeless and flat as hell. The FIIO is a unforgiving DAC Amp in resolute terms, but never have they exposed an IEM like this. Three songs in, I was ready to chalk them up as my first IEM purchase that I absolutely didn't like - lifeless and devoid of any color. I decided to fire up my Schitt stack, and jeez, they immediately came alive. The switch was nothing short of dramatic. I can usually listen to any one of my DAC/amp combos, duplicated in both desktop and dongle versions for portable kick-back use, and yes, there are differences but never like this. My ladder DACs are better with some IEMs that are sterile, so-to-speak; the FIIO DACs are super linear and better with others that are too warm, but I can usually listen to either and get away with it. Not so these.
This is a first for me where I didn't like a set like this and had such a dramatic turnaround with a different DAC amp. I dialed in a set of tips - narrow bore - and they sound damned good - righteously good to be honest.
This is a first for me where I didn't like a set like this and had such a dramatic turnaround with a different DAC amp. I dialed in a set of tips - narrow bore - and they sound damned good - righteously good to be honest.