Enjoying a nice visit with
@SBranson.
The pleasure was all mine. It’s been too long so not much time for the gear with the catching up so I limited my listening to the “first impression” type.
I didn’t get to listen to everything and wish I had tried the Rn6 again as I really enjoyed that when I had the tour unit.
I tried: Mentor, Trifecta, Aura, Perpetua, Rhapsodio Supreme V3 (?)
Based on that I had a strong preference for the Aura followed by the Trifecta. The Aura suited my tastes beautifully with nice bass and realistic timbre.
@Rockwell75 called it Elysium with DD bass and I guess that’s why I like them so much.
The Trifecta I tried with the WM1Z and the RS8 and preferred the warmth of the former whereas the latter kinda emphasized that unique “punch” that the Trifecta has. Something I’d have to physically get used to but a fun visceral experience of bass. Timbre too was excellent and overall a very dynamic sounding iem. Great stuff CFA.
Perpetua had great timbre, vocals sounding very real. The Mentor and Rhapsodio were very clean and detailed sounding but I found them a bit dryer in comparison to the others and coming from my buds and the Bonneville, they would take more time to adjust to the different timbre.
Having recently gone from having just the TGXEar Desolation Sound to adding the Revelstoke and Bonneville, I have been reminded of that visual illusion of
chromatic adaptation where the mind fills in colour on a black and white image to keep things constant.
I got the greatest sense of “brain burn in” and realize that in the presence of so many great and varied iems, the true variation is in me. I’m sure they could all be “my favourite” after having a week.
Biggest and most satisfying audio take away was that none of them wow’ed me so much as to feel at a loss with what I have… except perhaps wanting a bit better source. One day I’ll get a another N7 or something like that.. but for now it was just fun to hear some of the cream of the crop in what is truly an amazing line up of iems available today.
Best was to reconnect with
@Rockwell75 again. Would love to have an evening over a few drinks to just talk.