My current favorite is China Mieville and I have read most all of the classics including the better translations of Stanislaw Lem’s works. As far as fantasy, I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami, although his works are not easy to categorize. He is also a huge fan of audio and friends and I are trying to assemble audio gear he likes. We did the same for the Bosch tv show. Ohm speakers, McIntosh tube gear, I think a Marantz turntable and West coast jazz.
Both are fantastic ! Kraken and Kiberiada are my favourites.
No info on him yet. Will check.As far as fantasy, I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami, although his works are not easy to categorize. He is also a huge fan of audio and friends and I are trying to assemble audio gear he likes. We did the same for the Bosch tv show. Ohm speakers, McIntosh tube gear, I think a Marantz turntable and West coast jazz.
I really don't know, because I didn't try the Estrealla.
They both have different tuning approaches. if you want to try something which is more on the "meta" tuning, then the SLIIVO SL41 might be better. the Estrella looks like more of a V-SHAPE tuning.
I also wanted to order the Estrella, but it is double the price of the Sliivo SL41, and Mark from super reviewed mentioned that it has driver flex. I wouldn't accept that on 300$ IEM.
so my personal opinion that is that the Sliivo SL41 is a safer choice. but it is up to you, you might prefer the Estrella.
If you are not in a hurry, you might want to wait for the SLA8, which is 1DD 8BA that should be the better version of the SL41 (we can't really know without reviews), it will be out in the end of march. and you already have more releases of Myer such as the CKLVX CK2V which some reviewers have already recieved, and should be having reviews soon so we can see what it is worth.
Hah, just for the record, if it hadn't been for Head-Fi popping up on Google search when I typed "How to make custom IEMs" back in 2012 (there was a specific thread about it), I would have just gone about my day and maybe even stayed at my rather normal 9-to-5 job (nah, probably not).
Oh, definitely! Even before that, I'll try to put some on tour(s), so hopefully you won't have to wait until September!
I agree, and since ears are part of the head, all earphones are also headphones (but not all headphones are earphones).Technically, IEM is a type of “earphones”, which are shortened from “ear-fitting headphones”. So yeah, IEMs are headphones
My oh my, Philip is my all-time favorite! I think I read everything I could from him in high school, with "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" being my top choice. As for the film adaptations, "A Scanner Darkly" still gives me chills when I think about it. Especially the final scene, closed by "Black Swan" by Thom Yorke being like cherry on this weird cake. Absolutely mind-blowing.
As best I can tell the audio category applies so I share what I can. I design and build amplifiers (mostly headphone) as well as having experience with most audio gear. I like gear to sound good as well as appealing to other senses.
Oh and I spent about 17 years working with custom cables and my people built all kinds of them including full sized headphone and IEM so I may have a little knowledge there as well. For me HIFI can mean anything from the source all the way to the transducers. 
It shouldn't really affect the sound, once you get a fit with them it is gone, but you know, you spend good money to not have that... it could be avoided.
Hah, just for the record, if it hadn't been for Head-Fi popping up on Google search when I typed "How to make custom IEMs" back in 2012 (there was a specific thread about it), I would have just gone about my day and maybe even stayed at my rather normal 9-to-5 job (nah, probably not).
But it was there.
I clicked.
And I just had to start doing things.
So I'm not sure who did what to whom.
But now we're now we're all here, and things seem to be going pretty well!
Oh, definitely! Even before that, I'll try to put some on tour(s), so hopefully you won't have to wait until September!
I agree, and since ears are part of the head, all earphones are also headphones (but not all headphones are earphones).
My oh my, Philip is my all-time favorite! I think I read everything I could from him in high school, with "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" being my top choice. As for the film adaptations, "A Scanner Darkly" still gives me chills when I think about it. Especially the final scene, closed by "Black Swan" by Thom Yorke being like cherry on this weird cake. Absolutely mind-blowing.
Yes. That's driver flex. Also, if it's not something that happens once seated, then it's not much of a problem, but if it's something that repeats itself, over and over, and you use the IEMs often, it can end up damaging the driver, and kaputting it.
The Three Amigos.PAGE 20!! Brilliant! Thanks for the continued support, but this will be the last acknowledgement of landmark pages until 500 or 1,000?! Keep it coming!!
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Todays Saturday daily trio : Tangzu Legend (Empress), Softears Volume S, and AFUL Explorer. All different flavors from one another, but all providing most excellent sonics.
Most of my listening from this moment forth will be with the Cayin N3 Ultra. The B4-X & Tenore going back in the box.
I seem to be stuck on TOOBY goodness? Hmm...yeah, the Nunchaku would definitely nod in agreement if it could. LOL Giving that source a rest today though.
Don't forget to include us in the tour of Apostle, if not the 1st take, perhaps the 2nd? If possible of course, seems like some of us joined the "party" late
I'd say let's take it 1 milestone at a time, so perhaps the next ones should be Pages 100, 250...and then 1/2 kilobuck page, kilobuck page...etc!
Hah, just for the record, if it hadn't been for Head-Fi popping up on Google search when I typed "How to make custom IEMs" back in 2012 (there was a specific thread about it), I would have just gone about my day and maybe even stayed at my rather normal 9-to-5 job (nah, probably not).
But it was there.
I clicked.
And I just had to start doing things.
So I'm not sure who did what to whom.
But now we're now we're all here, and things seem to be going pretty well!
Oh, definitely! Even before that, I'll try to put some on tour(s), so hopefully you won't have to wait until September!
I agree, and since ears are part of the head, all earphones are also headphones (but not all headphones are earphones).
My oh my, Philip is my all-time favorite! I think I read everything I could from him in high school, with "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" being my top choice. As for the film adaptations, "A Scanner Darkly" still gives me chills when I think about it. Especially the final scene, closed by "Black Swan" by Thom Yorke being like cherry on this weird cake. Absolutely mind-blowing.
I just wish the Legend's bass was as good as the Wu Zetian. It's more reminiscent of the KZ PR2 or the S12, which are more linear (very similar to the KZ ZA12 bass). Very resolving and note incisive, with good rumble, but lacking mid bass energy and good punch.
That Legend set looks so classy and artistic I would have surely PTT if people hadn't reported early about the bass being lighter. If you look in my "culled" section in my signature, most of the bass-light IEMs I have I eventually end up parting with.
The faceplate is truly gorgeous. Work of art. but bassy it is not. As I stated before, the Wu is bassier than this one.
I still have yet to try the Terra even though you, Jaytiss, and Wayne all raved about it. Hopefully I can get a loaner later on to review it. Definitely want to try any of Emil's creations!
I don't think any cable can possibly do that.
It's been three months since the last domestic CanJam, I think everybody is ready.
