jant71
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Next Ch-fi driver candidate: vibranium ceramic coated nano-Particle adamantium moving coils with triple cavity 1.95 flux rating.
Shouer Tape advertised to have low voltage electrostatic driver when in fact it was off the shelf magnetostatic driver by Earbridge.
So basically Liquid (Silicone Kevlar) Driver means Liquid (Crystal Polymer) Driver worded differently to stand out from the rest.
Well the Shuoer thing was something different with the name. Magnetostat driver is quite good and no reason not to use the name as low volt electrostat is not more impressive and not even accurate. We know it does not meet the definition of an electrostat. Noble calls it an "active balanced magnetic" driver so again I think they can't use the term magnetostat instead of trying making things sound better.
The new Shouer could indeed be something never used before so they are more honest in this case. Of course trying to make it sound good but only yet another slight variation. Tons of slight carbon coating and even Be applications and in this case perhaps a slightly different LCP so not exactly the same as in Sony or others.
On Head-fi though we should all be above that and know that the whole driver construction design and tuning is the most important. The diaphragm material only contributes somewhat to the sound character but is far from the whole driver. A driver can sound good regardless of coating or diaphram material but a diaphragm alone can't make a bad driver sound good. Nice to know what is in there as we might have preferences. I have a titanium preference over the years with Koss, my Sony CD's with evaporated titanium coated, Cresyn, Goldring, and now my most recent Simgot TW and Elecom(which is already on my top 5 all time favorite in-ear dynamic driver list). So, I think that trying to stand out marketing is more for the masses. Many Head-fiers love the new toy syndrome or suffer from grass is always greener syndrome and also can't resist the curiosity and feed the need of hobby so they don't even need that marketing. They just want to try a new Shuoer or a new DUNU or whatever. Not stopping people from buying the ISN D10 which is only touted as "9mm dynamic driver"
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