[Libertad]

Déjà vu​

I’m having flashbacks, to the modding of the JVC HA-FDX1

Damn now thats a throwback iem i havent heard of in a long time!

 

[gadgetgod]

Talking about releases, I am a big HIBY fanboy. I admit that
The R4 DAP gets more and more info, now English tweets are up. I was ready to buy the M300 as my everyday work and travel DAP, but this is much more tempting with 4.4mm and better DAC and Amp section.
2xx is probably 299, if so the pice for a Android DAP is excellent.

I am also a HiBy Fanboy but not a fan of this design theme Maybe it's just me.

 

[gadgetgod]

AüR Audio Aehta price released, depending on the conversion rate 985usd for standard version.

Man I was just talking to you about it. I discussed with Aur, they may look into the shipping thing for me. Really want the Aehta. Good thing is I will be able to listen to it in the first week of April in SG(Thanks to the brand for agreeing to meet me lol).

 

[chickenmoon]

It was a little warmer than I had expected, based on early impressions from Japanese buyers, many of who described it as “cool”/“cold” and “hard”. But excessively warm and bass bleedy, no, not to my ears. It has a healthy amount of warmth, weight and decay backed by solid technicalities, all of which contributes to its largely natural timbre.

In addition to playing with the vents, try it with a graphene cable if you have one. It tightened up the bass and cleaned up too much decay and resonance for my tastes, but may do the trick for you.

So you did not find it excessively warm but had to do something to tighten the bass and clean up its too much resonance and decay, too funny.

 

[-rowan-]

So you did not find it excessively warm but had to do something to tighten the bass and clean up its too much resonance and decay, too funny.

Quite the opposite. I wrote that it cleaned up too much resonance and decay for my tastes. And so it is not an option for me, but may have the desired effect for someone with different preferences.

But you are right in that I do not find it excessively warm at all.

 

[Nimweth]

I am a simple man: I see Vangelis, I upvote.
I listened to El Greco more than 1000 times (also have close to all Vangelis albums in CD quality).

If you like Vangelis, this may recall the late, great man:

 

[suman134]

S15 sound more natural in the stage, agree there. MP145 sounded very wide to me, but again soundstage is very dependent on ear anatomy. Bass quantity sounded very close to the same, just that the upper energy of MP145 making it more V shaped. Can't remember the filters I used, understand many like it. Even though it was not for me.

It's a reason why S15 getting use every week and I gave away MP145

Filters have a big impact on the signature. It seems you had tried the Silver nozzle filter.
That's nothing like the S15. And with that, yes, S15 is not an upgrade to. They differ a lot. The stage is wider too but that timber is not natural and bass is lacking organic decay. Treble has S12 kind of energy and there, it annihilates the S15. S15 lacks upper treble energy but that's very good against the 145 with red filter.
So.. For the MP145, it's filters matter a lot.

 

[Redcarmoose]

TINHIFI P1 Max 2! “Giant Panda 2”

My second favorite TIN! And with this statement.....I can’t figure out the price?

 

[Nimweth]

There has been a lot of discussion about "Planar timbre" especially since such drivers have become more prevalent. I certainly have experienced "BA timbre" but have never found planar drivers to have unnatural tonality. As an example, via Xduoo X20 > Faaeal Hibiscus > KZ PR3, the timbre of the piano and guitar on this piece sounds very natural and accurate:

 

[o0genesis0o]

There has been a lot of discussion about "Planar timbre" especially since such drivers have become more prevalent. I certainly have experienced "BA timbre" but have never found planar drivers to have unnatural tonality. As an example, via Xduoo X20 > Faaeal Hibiscus > KZ PR3, the timbre of the piano and guitar on this piece sounds very natural and accurate:

Maybe you should try some string rather than Piano. Personally, timbral problems only rear their heads when I listen to music with sustained instruments (or voices).

Personally, I consider BA timbre a feature rather than a bug.

 

[o0genesis0o]

I like to think this IEM as a demonstration of my hearing loss that I will encounter in (hopefully not too near) future.

Their upper midrange and lower treble are less mild than the graph suggests, indicating that fit plays a very important role with these IEMs. On the coupler, these IEMs fit much deeper than how I can actually get them to seal on my ears.

Whining aside, I have to say that KiwiEars and Crinacle tuned these IEMs very well. The midrange is clean, clear, energetic, and correct. If I ignore the missing upper treble and focus on the midrange, I find that note definition is quite good. Dynamic is also undampened (maybe just psychoacoustic due to the constant bragging of KiwiEars about how these IEMs have no dampeners). If you can get good seal (e.g., using S&S tips as a fellow head-fier mentioned a few pages back or Divinus Velvet tips), these IEMs are quite okay.

Fun suggestion to KiwiEars: what if you extend the nozzle length and glue a Knowles super tweeter inside and do some wizardry like you have done so that it fills in strictly from around 10kHz up?

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Family photo of Symphonium.

I'm not sure that valley around 10kHz is real or because of my clone coupler. If I eye ball the graph, it looks very similar to the official graph, but my 10kHz valley seems to be around 3dB to 5dB deeper. Anyhow, usual disclaimer: above 8kHz, it is not accurate. And even if the coupler is accurate, it's unlikely your ears would hear the same response due to how you fit the IEM.

Yes, they sound exactly like how they graph here. The divisive nature of Meteor comes from that dip at 5kHz. The "hollow" sensation of the bass of Helios is from that 250Hz gap. Crimson is essentially a retuned Helios with 1 step up in technical performance and many steps up in comfort.

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Edit:

This is interesting. I knew I saw that response somewhere

Edit 2:

Oooh, interesting!

As usual, graphing the same only means these IEMs have a chance of having the same tonal balance and tonal colour of instruments. They generally do not paint the same sonic picture.

 

[bryaudioreviews]

My A55 does have Mr Walkman and it's close, but I have to give the A306 props for having a wider stage than the A55 and a more transparent sound. The A55, even with Mr Walman mod, is still a tad bit darker (less treble extension) than the A306.

Fantastic. Thanks for the reply!!

 

[brsdrgn]

Hey guys. Been a while since I didn't visit head-fi. Seeing over 100 pages in discovery thread to read...

Would anyone please tell me what stands out recently? Did sth come up that disrupts the industry?

 

[o0genesis0o]

Hey guys. Been a while since I didn't visit head-fi. Seeing over 100 pages in discovery thread to read...

Would anyone please tell me what stands out recently? Did sth come up that disrupts the industry?

IMHO, nothing, really. Everyone is doing a good job in their own ways.

Big ones coming up:

• Symphonium Titan
• Elysian Acoustic Labs Pilgrim
• AFUL 14BA flagship is finally coming
• AuR audio just released a quadbrid (DD+BA+EST+Sonion bone conduction) for around 1k USD.
• HiBy is launching a $2xx Android DAP with 4 ESS DACs and class A amp. They are also going to release a single DD collaboration with FAudio.

Not so new news:

• NiceHck has two good IEMs: F1 Pro (planar) and Himalaya (single DD)
• Hidizs has a good planar IEM (MP145)
• Letshuoer has Cadenza 4, which seems to be very good mid-fi entry.

 

[claud W]

Talking about releases, I am a big HIBY fanboy. I admit that
The R4 DAP gets more and more info, now English tweets are up. I was ready to buy the M300 as my everyday work and travel DAP, but this is much more tempting with 4.4mm and better DAC and Amp section.
2xx is probably 299, if so the pice for a Android DAP is excellent.

$117 shipped for the HiBy R3 II @ MT.