RikudouGoku
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It is a planar.Good choice but im looking for a planar
It is a planar.Good choice but im looking for a planar
I was about to type a planar IEM.It is a planar.
The best "budget" planar even now: second hand Audeze iSine 10 (or if you can find a B-stock one) with the Cipher cable (which makes it iOS only). The Cipher V1 cable (much rarer) has excellent tonal balance and the Cipher V2 is more V-shaped but still technically great. Both have the best staging/imaging under $1000 (along with the iSine 20) and the bass is pretty good. Issue is: these are open-back for the most part and has zero isolation. Also they are very uncomfortable. I bought two of them and sold both so yeah despite having some good stuff I don't find any use for them. However, if you can deal with the fit - they are as good a planar IEM as any (with the Cipher cable, stock tuning is awful).I was about to type a planar IEM.
Not necessarily, since Audeze has a closed back iSine and those sound decent (though very expensive). But making closed-back headphones in general is more challenging than open-backs and in case of IEMs the enclosure is very small so not much room to diffuse the resonances etc. Also, small planar diaphragms in general don't sound any better than a competent dynamic driver or BA driver array. They are more novel than really good at anything in the sound department.Should I guess planar and closed back don't mix?
If my understanding of loudspeakers can somehow translate into a headphone. I like to think that the closed back is the acoustic suspension of headphones, or a bass reflex if the closed back has a vent, like my BLON BL-03 and most DD iems for example (hopefully IEMs are more similar than different in this regard). While the open back is either an open baffle if coupling is not airtight while it's an infinite baffle if it is. And to my understanding open/infinite baffle offers THE tightest sound of any type of speaker driver mounting.The best "budget" planar even now: second hand Audeze iSine 10 (or if you can find a B-stock one) with the Cipher cable (which makes it iOS only). The Cipher V1 cable (much rarer) has excellent tonal balance and the Cipher V2 is more V-shaped but still technically great. Both have the best staging/imaging under $1000 (along with the iSine 20) and the bass is pretty good. Issue is: these are open-back for the most part and has zero isolation. Also they are very uncomfortable. I bought two of them and sold both so yeah despite having some good stuff I don't find any use for them. However, if you can deal with the fit - they are as good a planar IEM as any (with the Cipher cable, stock tuning is awful).
Not necessarily, since Audeze has a closed back iSine and those sound decent (though very expensive). But making closed-back headphones in general is more challenging than open-backs and in case of IEMs the enclosure is very small so not much room to diffuse the resonances etc. Also, small planar diaphragms in general don't sound any better than a competent dynamic driver or BA driver array. They are more novel than really good at anything in the sound department.
I wish for open-back IEMs as an innovation. The last days I tested out an open-back earbud which sounded very good.If my understanding of loudspeakers can somehow translate into a headphone. I like to think that the closed back is the acoustic suspension of headphones, or a bass reflex if the closed back has a vent, like my BLON BL-03 and most DD iems for example (hopefully IEMs are more similar than different in this regard). While the open back is either an open baffle if coupling is not airtight while it's an infinite baffle if it is. And to my understanding open/infinite baffle offers THE tightest sound of any type of speaker driver mounting.
I also wonder why open back IEM is such an alien concept. It's not like I ALWAYS need noise isolation.
There are a number of “open” IEMs. The FiiO FD5 is pretty much open-backed, being the first one that came to mind.I wish for open-back IEMs as an innovation. The last days I tested out an open-back earbud which sounded very good.
Although the degree of openess seems kinda underwhelming compared to the Goldplanar GL20 or the Audeze iSine series. More like a vented design rather than open. But I'd love to audition the FD5 if I could.There are a number of “open” IEMs. The FiiO FD5 is pretty much open-backed, being the first one that came to mind.
Open-back isn't really feasible for many IEMs as it doesn't really help with diaphragm back-pressure for dynamic drivers (and in BA drivers I don't think it's a feasible concept unless you're talking vented BA, even which mostly needs a small vent). The issue with earbuds is that most of them have poor bass response and the ones with good bass are still a far cry from the bass you get in IEMs (the ones with good bass, that is). Most of the bass reflex chambers in IEMs (or similar concepts) are of closed back variety (e.g. Sony IER-Z1R), though not all of them (e.g. Dunu's ACIS). In the end, there is also the part about market demand. People use IEMs to isolate themselves from the surrounding for the most part, very few would use IEMs that has zero isolation while commuting, for example. Demand dictates production.I wish for open-back IEMs as an innovation. The last days I tested out an open-back earbud which sounded very good.
FD5 doesn't really sound open to me. The Dunu Falcon Pro, for example, has a much more open signature due to more elaborate front-venting (and worse isolation, as a result).Although the degree of openess seems kinda underwhelming compared to the Goldplanar GL20 or the Audeze iSine series. More like a vented design rather than open. But I'd love to audition the FD5 if I could.
3D glasses, nice joke.Oh! I know the issue. You didn't wear the 3D glasses....