[Scubadevils]

I'm not particularly sensitive to treble so a little bit of energy up top never bothered me. I know Alex has some slight sensitivity in this area, although he didn't find it fatiguing, but YMMV. In direct A-B sessions between the IE900 & Dark Sky the latter could come off a little bright, with the former coming off as a bit veiled. It's a mater of preference; I could see myself using the Dark Sky during the day with the IE900 reserved for evening/late night sessions.

Yes good point, or indeed for different genres.

 

[Neweymatt]

Remember: I'm extremely limited in being able to audition anything for the next half year and may have to go for a blind buy or wait until eternity. As such I want to avoid as much risk as possible. This is completely different to most of you here, so while I have taken IEMs off my list based on charts alone YOU don't have to do anything absurd as this and simply listen, listen, listen.

You could do worse than just getting a Moondrop Aria to become familiar with and then use as a kind of yardstick to compare others to while you work out what really want spend the bigger $$ on. It's quite a nice listen in it's own right, and easily justifies it's $80 price tag.

I haven't had such great access to listen to much myself, partly due to availability where I live, and also the pandemic. The ChiFi stuff I bought early on has been pretty helpful to work out where I might want to go next, Aria is easily the best of them.

 

[Rockwell75]

@tgx78 mighty Odin has landed! Pics and preliminary impressions to come later.

 

[Skullar]

Well my friend who's the IEM vacuum cleaner wanted one and it was the only thing I could shift quickly that isn't the EXT since classifieds are dead.

I thought it might be a keeper over EXT for you...
Also whats with SP2000T sale?

 

[aaf evo]

I thought it might be a keeper over EXT for you...
Also whats with SP2000T sale?

Just need one more thing to be gone to cover some recent buys. I don’t care too much about high end DAPs, half the time I use my iPhone dongle more. Definitely not saying it is the same because I don’t believe that.

 

[DanielListening]

@tgx78 mighty Odin has landed! Pics and preliminary impressions to come later.

LOL I made a audible groan in jealousy and Valerie asked me what was wrong. Haha.

She rolled her eyes when I explained…

I’m very excited to hear your impressions.

 

[discord]

LOL I made a audible groan in jealousy and Valerie asked me what was wrong. Haha.

She rolled her eyes when I explained…

I’m very excited to hear your impressions.

Misread that as the EE Valkyrie for a sec.

 

[DanielListening]

Haha. There is a Gen One in Canuck Audio Mart for a fair price. I was thinking…

 

[Rockwell75]

Well my friend who's the IEM vacuum cleaner

That could apply to a few of us lately lol

LOL I made a audible groan in jealousy and Valerie asked me what was wrong. Haha.

She rolled her eyes when I explained…

I’m very excited to hear your impressions.

LMAO I'm not sure what made me lol harder that or @Neweymatt's wife asking him if he was going to get a dedicated IEM "for the loo". We're a funny bunch.

 

[drftr]

That could apply to a few of us lately lol



LMAO I'm not sure what made me lol harder that or @Neweymatt's wife asking him if he was going to get a dedicated IEM "for the loo". We're a funny bunch.

718 readers seem to agree with that!

drftr

 

[DunkFealer]

718 readers seem to agree with that!

drftr

lol this really is getting ridiculous

 

[drftr]

lol this really is getting ridiculous

Me thinks Jeff has created a Head-Fi account for everyone in his town to win a bet!

drftr

 

[drftr]

Also of note is that since the Cat Chronicles were published there's a 33.3% rise in thread members - no kidding! Possibly THE time to drop the audiophile subject completely and move to pets?

drftr

 

[Damz87]

I have no problems exposing him

IEM vacuum cleaner. Dam...

 

[rantng]

Whelp, looks like I didn't escape Campfire Audio's Holiday Vortex. Just ordered a Jupiter CK. The Jupiter has a special place in my heart, it was my first "flagship" IEM purchase. This was prior to the release of the Andromeda and the Jupiter was still the TOTL offering from Ken & Co. I picked up a B-stock Jupiter shortly after the release of the Andromeda and I still have it to this day, it's probably the oldest IEM in my collection. I remember being blown away by its resolution and it's what made me a treblehead. It's tuning has always been somewhat divisive and it was quickly overshadowed by its green big brother, but it will always have a place in my collection; obviously I had to pick up a backup.