Penon Impact looks like a really good Iem, however I join the trend that prefers bass played by a dynamic driver, in my case I expect 4EST + 4BA + DD with a good punch in the sub-bass region, I'll be front row.
I look forward to the impressions and reviews of Impact
BA bass can be done, would say that both SeaAudio Bravery and SA6 does it well. In both of them you get tight and well extended bass that is fast, kinda reminds me of Audeze LCD 2 bass.
Penon Impact looks like a really good Iem, however I join the trend that prefers bass played by a dynamic driver, in my case I expect 4EST + 4BA + DD with a good punch in the sub-bass region, I'll be front row.
I look forward to the impressions and reviews of Impact
Really well done BA bass is different. It’s more cutting and has a transient bass response that DD can’t touch, ever. Actually I would say the SA6 halfway gets there, it gives a person a taste of the potential yet only partially. When done well BA bass can be drawn up which arrives at a place in the stage that is made for it by its BA brothers. Thus there is a style (often) of BAs blending with themselves better due to using the same driver methodology. On another level this speed is arrived, but more than that, an inner texture that is made of way more detail. I look at DDs as showing the outside of the bass note, and BA bass as showing the inside. What’s inside is often a presentation which can hold real timbre in note construction seemingly glossed over and covered-up by the bigger more rough bass creations DDs perform. The DD outside note is connected more with room response and decays, yet those traits also seem to ultimately defocus (slightly) the actual bass note?
Really well done BA bass is different. It’s more cutting and has a transient bass response that DD can’t touch, ever. Actually I would say the SA6 halfway gets there, it gives a person a taste of the potential yet only partially. When done well BA bass can be drawn up which arrives at a place in the stage that is made for it by its BA brothers. Thus there is a style (often) of BAs blending with themselves better due to using the same driver methodology. On another level this speed is arrived, but more than that, an inner texture that is made of way more detail. I look at DDs as showing the outside of the bass note, and BA bass as showing the inside. What’s inside is often a presentation which can hold real timbre in note construction seemingly glossed over and covered-up by the bigger more rough bass creations DDs perform. The DD outside note is connected more with room response and decays, yet those traits also seem to ultimately defocus (slightly) the actual bass note?
This new Impact seems to be a direct Trailii competition. Price and cable have a lot to do with this successs, as the cable on the Trailii is a big part of it's sound. Fortunately I have one on hand to compare!!
Well, I have heard stuff like the qdc Anole VX, but only in passing tests at a shop. With ownership it would be my Noble Audio Encore. With such extra support from the WM1Z and Totem cable the bass response is quite to my liking. Offering a different style of bass response which I describe in the previous post. The bass events occur with the Encore due to an almost neutral bass with a recessed lower midrange, which opens a window to view the sound events down below. Such bass holds inner details which by far surpasses any DD I’m aware of. Such tones can hold wavering which gets covered-up by DDs ruggedness. Such wavering is in essence bass detail in the way the notes have a quick attack and decay which shows this inner oscillation, never viewed as fast with DDs, as they just can’t perform what a bass BA does in agility. But more than the agility, there is this effect of hidden bass, which attacks unexpectedly which is just maybe BA speed in the end? Those pinpoint transients which DDs just can’t do.
It’s kinda like BA bass does the attacks better and DD does the decay better. But when you have BA done right there is so much detail in the transient, that’s what you get into. There is also positioning that DDs don’t do. The BA style of bass has a place into the stage that is more defined, where DD is more omnipresent. IMO
But the bass tremolo effect just can’t be done with DD bass as they simply move too slow for it to occur.
I own several several sets and probably the best one with bass response is the STORM. BA bass but fast, punchy, clean and with plenty of control. It's mesmerizing. The Maestro SE has more impact, it rumbles but there's something about the STORM that makes it special.
Exactly my thoughts! I'm sooo ready to buy the Volt especially knowing that IMPACT has no DD (I'm a bit biased in DD's bass no matter how good BA's bass is lol).
Exactly my thoughts! I'm sooo ready to buy the Volt especially knowing that IMPACT has no DD (I'm a bit biased in DD's bass no matter how good BA's bass is lol).
Just received the Impact - a Canadian Tour Unit. Even before I graphed it, I knew it sounded familiar.. A Traillii like tonality with the Jewel like resolution.
looks like the same land shell? isn't that what makes the soundstage so huge on those, something with the venting?? probably a hintless comparison but fun to stretch my imagination!
Just received the Impact - a Canadian Tour Unit. Even before I graphed it, I knew it sounded familiar.. A Traillii like tonality with the Jewel like resolution.
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