The discovery thread!

[JEHL]

I remember at some point in the Home-Made IEMs thread, that there seems to be a lot of pushback against mounting BA tweeter to the nozzle. Wonder if:

1. Is it considered impossible to tune properly?
2. Would this be considered intrusive even if employed strictly as a supertweeter?
3. While BA was the topic at hand, I wonder if this may also be true for any driver type that could fit inside a nozzle without making said nozzle unreasonably wide?

 

[r31ya]

I still have PTSD from having a 12TB external hard drive filled with music seemingly go poof overnight a couple years ago.

Lost a lot of stuff that I haven’t been able to replace.

Sad times. Hurt me more than the deaths of some of my family members.

this is one of the reason i wanna buy NAS with backup drive someday.
if one drive died, the data is not lost and you just need to replace the died drive.

When i was working on final paper for my university, local grid got hit by lighting.
my pc is protected with stabilizer with fuse, but the freakin lan cable that at the time still connected to ISP's copperwire is not secured.
i live in a bit rural region that only finally add fiber optic like the next year after that incident
Through LAN, it fried my motherboard and HDD, a nightmare situation

thankfully i was taught to be paranoid on our final paper data so backup was everywhere.
but 2 tb secondary HDD (not maindrive) in it that have all my media collection, music, old-anime, tv-shows and such was gone gone.

i need to replace my motherboard, get new hdd, and thankfully, local repairshop able to refer me to specialist that able to save my GPU by cannibalizing "donor" GPU.

 

[MightyBalzaq]

this is one of the reason i wanna buy NAS with backup drive someday.
if one drive died, the data is not lost and you just need to replace the died drive.

Same here.

Maybe one day my limited budget will allow it.

 

[theintention]

BGVP Phantom SE



Mid-centric tuning beauty

 

[baskingshark]

Shanling is releasing a 10 BA set (using Knowles, Sonions and custom BAs) in the AE10.

Comes with two tuning switch switcheroos and a vegan approved leather case.

https://www.linsoul.com/products/shanling-ae10

 

[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

BGVP Phantom SE



Mid-centric tuning beauty

That's a beauty, and good impressions from folks. How's the BCD compared to the Shock or FAN 3?

 

[FreeWheelinAudioLuv2]

Shanling is releasing a 10 BA set (using Knowles, Sonions and custom BAs) in the AE10.



Comes with two tuning switch switcheroos and a vegan approved leather case.




https://www.linsoul.com/products/shanling-ae10

Why would someone pay $1,000 for 10 ba's, when you can get 28 ba's for $800 in the AFUL Cantor? The Cantor completely reset the market for all-BA pricing.

 

[saldsald]

Purple - Stock Red
Yellow - Mod

Simgot EA500LM retuned. I honestly find the filter used to be pretty terrible (I only have the red ring filter with me, so that one). So here is the bass punch, timbre and overall resolution much improved. Not easy to tune it tbh due to the very odd filter-less sound and the 5k being too flat.

 

[Zerstorer_GOhren]

John Bonham is probably one of the influential drummers of all time as he belongs to the pantheon of great drummers with the likes of Neil Peart, Ginger Baker, Buddy Rich, Carmine Appice and Dave Lombardo. He is known to be a drummer of the great LED ZEPPELIN, and as we all know that all of its members are known for their virtuosity and musicianship from tenor prowess of Robert Plant, a solid grooves and funky bass lines of JPJ, the melodic yet complex riffs of Jimmy Page and of course the the technical prowess, intensity and rhythmic grooves of his that defines LED ZEP as one of the best rock bands in ages.



This track “Achilles Last Stand” shows the stamina, creativity and musicianship of John Bonham's drumming wizardry. And this track deserves to be played along with one of the best IEM sets out there in the audio market, The LETSHUOER CADENZA 12 (Regular).



Its model name CADENZA really fits on this set and also to John Bonham (if you ever watch his solos in online videos) as it defines a soloist, either a singer or a musician that plays a complex passage part of a musical performance in an improvised and virtuosic manner.


The LETSHUOER CADENZA 12 is able to capture every detail and nuances like instruments reverb tails and notation attacks on John Bonham's strikes on cymbals, hats, toms, snares and bass kick drum on his Ludwig drum set. The bass kick drums does have a good resonance with sonorous and sustaining on every kick, the warmth, rumbling and reverberant sound on every hitting on toms-toms which is a main core of his masterful grooves along with the hard and precise sound on the snare drums, and last but not least, that natural sound on crashing cymbals and hi-hats as the former sounds full and lustrous while the latter has that distinct chick-y sound which has short warm buzzing sound.



For more comprehensive take on LETSHUOER CADENZA 12 review, check out my reviews on both Head-Fi and in my own blog.

https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/letshuoer-cadenza-12.26349/reviews#review-30353

https://euphoniareviews.blogspot.com/2023/03/letshuoer-cadenza-12-eminent-virtuoso.html

 

[Jmop]

Shanling is releasing a 10 BA set (using Knowles, Sonions and custom BAs) in the AE10.



Comes with two tuning switch switcheroos and a vegan approved leather case.




https://www.linsoul.com/products/shanling-ae10

Do you find that the use of different types of BAs together is more likely to result in less coherency than if they were all the same type?

 

[pradiptacr7]

Last session before holiday..!! NF Acous NM20 ft. SORA Audio Rise.

NM20 is very lightweight and fits easily with your ears. Perfect for stage usage. It comprises a slight V-shaped tuning with a lot of emphasis on the sub-bass region. The vocals are energetic, thinner vocals sound sublime with a very good clarity.

The vocals in Hotel California by the Eagles sound superb.

Detailed reviews for both are coming soon.

 

[o0genesis0o]

Why would someone pay $1,000 for 10 ba's, when you can get 28 ba's for $800 in the AFUL Cantor? The Cantor completely reset the market for all-BA pricing.

To be fair, whilst I do believe that Cantor breaks the mold in terms of what sound quality can be expected at $800, the honour of jamming BAs into IEMs belong to Kz

 

[nikbr]

Yikes, looks like another Must-Have for all Australians

 

[JEHL]

So I may or may not have mentioned the idea of an IEM with a single full-range driver, but it's assisted by a dual DD for what's otherwise too low for the full-range and either another BA or a microplanar for what's too high for the full-range.

It's apparently already here. It's the Kiwi Ears KE4.

So I do wonder if the KE4 sounds a bit more unconventional than most hybrids because of this implementation.

It'd probably call it the double-assisted full range for lack of a better name for this particular implementation.

 

[o0genesis0o]

So I may or may not have mentioned the idea of an IEM with a single full-range driver, but it's assisted by a dual DD for what's otherwise too low for the full-range and either another BA or a microplanar for what's too high for the full-range.

It's apparently already here. It's the Kiwi Ears KE4.

So I do wonder if the KE4 sounds a bit more unconventional than most hybrids because of this implementation.

It'd probably call it the double-assisted full range for lack of a better name for this particular implementation.

I think the GAudio Todi does exactly what you mentioned. The dual DD work as full range rather than subwoofers.