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Went ahead and backed the geek wave. Too bad I won't have it to try with the 850s for almost a whole year. Thought it would be one of those fun, " oh, I forgot about that" surprises.
Went ahead and backed the geek wave. Too bad I won't have it to try with the 850s for almost a whole year. Thought it would be one of those fun, " oh, I forgot about that" surprises.
Honestly, get them. I've yet to find anyone who's regretted it. These things are the best $300 I've ever spent on audio, don't think I'll be purchasing any new iems for awhile. Looking towards DAPs these days.
Went ahead and backed the geek wave. Too bad I won't have it to try with the 850s for almost a whole year. Thought it would be one of those fun, " oh, I forgot about that" surprises.
7N SPC from PlusSound
Anyone else build their own yet?
Just receive my fx850! Now I understand what "timbre" means...fx850 timbre is really amazing! Also the soundstage is really big, instrumentals separate is wow!! The more I listen to this, the more I like it! (My previous iem is Shure se215LTD) Also the mid of fx850 is as sweet as se215!
Thank you all people here for showing me how great fx850 does! And thanks to Dsnuts for burn in guide!
Aye, the soundstage is one of the strengths of the FX850. Sounds very wide for an iem.
I must thank Dsnuts too for his recommendation.
I must clarify though, the burn-in should be done by actually listening to the iem. It will do nothing if you just leave it on all day and not listen to it. As a senior engineering student with some training in material science, I can tell you that for the sound signature of the driver to change, the material properties/structure has to alter quite a lot for that to happen. And that's big no-no in engineering, that is, a sound driver that changes its properties/specifications after mere hundreds of hours of usage. You guys can find articles online that measure the frequency response changes of iems/headphones before and after hundreds of hours of usage. There simply is no changes between the two states.
I personally experienced much tamer bass now in the fx850 compared to before, similar to the tamed down of sibilance in some other iems I've owned in the past. This is mostly due to the psychological effect, rather than the physical one. This phenomenon is also common among hearing aid and hearing implants patients.
Conclusion: your brain adapted to new sound of your device. The iems themselves did not change at all.
I still openly welcome a link to an actual peer-reviewed journal article.