Haha I think if some other budget CHIFI companies use an anime box for marketing, they can easily jack up the price of the gear by 2 times and fanboys/otakus will still buy it!
Can you imagine opening an anime box and discovering a shouty KZ inside?
I wasn't going to get them but all my resolve ebbed away when one popped up on sale locally for USD25 equivalent (down from the usual USD40). I was definitely on that at once haha
she sure is a cute one, even more so than the SSR waifu
Running back to the office at once to listen to them properly! But first impressions are that these just won everything and will most likely be my default recommendation under 50 freedom bucks.
They like power though. Balanced cable (KBear limpid) has been ordered.
Running back to the office at once to listen to them properly! But first impressions are that these just won everything and will most likely be my default recommendation under 50 freedom bucks.
They like power though. Balanced cable (KBear limpid) has been ordered.
I was always a fan of the SSR in spite of it being somewhat hot in the upper-midrange. The drivers in the Super Spaceship duo deliver really brilliant highs and detailed, intimate vocals, as well as rather impressive imaging capabilities for a single DD. The SSR however had almost no sub-bass and a very polite mid-bass which led to certain tracks having a harshness or glare at higher listening volumes. While it is early days with the SSP, the additional low end weight is immediately noticeable. All the complaints about it being overly bright can now basically be quashed. While it still has the same upper mids boost as the SSR, the perceived sound is now significantly more balanced and slightly W-shaped.
Setup: medium stock tips, stock cable, ZX-300 single-ended output, 320kbps MP3 or better
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole: textured, authoritative sub-bass. Distinct layering of vocals and instruments, no melding
The Killers - My Own Soul's Warning: male vocals are not recessed. Guitar rhythms are energetic and vast, rather tall stage
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King: Punchy and tight mid-bass complemented by sub-bass rumble. Precise instrument separation. No harshness or sibilance
Avril Lavigne - Complicated: the shrieking banshee test. The SSP gets a pass on this one. Her vocals are in line with the drumming rather than being way ahead of it
ClariS - Prism: vocals are sufficiently detailed to be able to tell the otherwise similar-sounding duo apart.
Nightwish - I Want My Tears Back: SSP copes well with the complex instrumentation in the background. Most elements of the sound can be picked out without too much effort. It isn't just guitar.
Eve x Sou - Myoujou Galactica: bright, detailed, brilliant presentation without being too much of a good thing. 8-bit buzzer sound effect is in the background where it should be.
Toto - Africa: Drums have weight and authority. The various synths and percussion elements are well separated. The word here is precise. Nothing is bleeding into one another, at least that I can tell.
Frank Sinatra - My Way: Lush and rich tonality; instruments have room to breathe. Trumpets are a tad on the bright side. Strings have a sense of height to them. Sinatra is positioned front and center, the slight grain in his voice is represented well.
Hayley Williams - Simmer: Subtle details in her whispers and breaths are brought out. Good sense of spacing as the drums pan around in a 180 degree arc.
Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Then Jim: The test of acoustic guitar-led folk rendition. Sounds as good as on the SSR, which is to say, very good indeed. Excellent natural timbre. It's like I'm there in the room with her.
In summary, the SSP carries over all of the strengths of the SSR and adds a generous helping of low-end weight. If the track calls for it, it can rumble and thump all right while keeping up a detailed, bright, "hi-res" presentation across the rest of the frequency range. There's nary any mid-bass bloat or bleeding into the mids, and male vocals are not sacrificed and crushed for the sake of fake details here. This is good.
I like the direction DUNU is taking on their newer offerings. This is one company to look out for next year when they release the Zen and their new hybrids.
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