The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome.

[musingclouds]

Guys just let it die lol

 

[Tabikinoya Cephas]

On the flip side…using common sense and courtesy, you should ask others if you can share their thoughts and impressions on their behalf before sharing publicly. Otherwise, you should probably disclose beforehand that anything said to you may be posted publicly without their consent.

I am not sharing other peoples impressions on their behalf, these are my own opinions about what should be common courtesy and respect. It clearly appears that you lack both.

i am curious on why all these involve you?
Are you there in person or have any context of what happened?
If the things has been clarified, and you are still bugging me and refusing to move on, aren't you the one without respect and courtesy?
I am quite puzzled by your self-righteouness while refusing to let go when the case is over.
You could have private message me in light of you valuing courtesy to leave the rest of them out of this topic and focus on the audio stuffs but you choose to continue posting. Well, so much for courtesy.

 

[skcheng]

On the flip side…using common sense and courtesy, you should ask others if you can share their thoughts and impressions on their behalf before sharing publicly. Otherwise, you should probably disclose beforehand that anything said to you may be posted publicly without their consent.

I am not sharing other peoples impressions on their behalf, these are my own opinions about what should be common courtesy and respect. It clearly appears that you lack both.

Let it go....

 

[tresvigint]

I love u nightjar Onix IC
Make Fgk tonality more into my preference

 

[Aetherhole]

I love u nightjar Onix IC
Make Fgk tonality more into my preference

I don’t know… I think Nightjar could make the IC gauge thicker…

 

[emdeevee]

I don’t know… I think Nightjar could make the IC gauge thicker…

 

[tresvigint]

I don’t know… I think Nightjar could make the IC gauge thicker…

Now u mention it...
Nahhh im not picky here just enjoy the Fgk

 

[KuroKitsu]

Ignore button is your friennnnnnd~

 

[Ishcabible]

The ignore button doesn’t really help someone realize when they’re doing something wrong but it appears people are just wasting their time trying to get through to this person.

I just don’t want to allow for an environment where creators of products feel like they can’t be part of the community by sharing candid impressions. Asking representatives of companies not share their opinions reeks of trying to segregate employees of companies into being just servants for us consumers rather than being hobbyists that happen to sell products they believe represent their goals.

If that’s what the the original commenter wants employees of companies to be that’s a valid position to take but it feels gross to me.

 

[drftr]

Aaaaaand the 3 hardest words to understand on the Watercooler are in!

In no particular order the winners are:

- Let
- It
- Go

drftr

 

[TheMiddleSky]

Definitely so many surprises in this canjam! Especially after read a lot of impression from Canjam New York for some summit stuff:

- Elysian Dio with Apex Cable is truly awesome, especially for "enormous" soundstage presentation, crystal clear treble with smooth character. Vocal is really clean and fluid, has a bit wetness in sound that make it more "emotional". Bass has good body and punch, with "just enough" quantity to make overall sound presentasion as balance. I feel that using external amp such Brise Tsuranagi or EA4 help to make all leading notes become more solid, more focus imaging structure, and expand the soundstage even more.

- Mefisto + Temptation Cable indeed a solid performer. Energetic, engaging, fuller and punchier than Macbeth with more forward vocal, but retain the lively treble bite and the Soundstage quality almost as good as Macbeth + Ambition. For my personal taste, I like Mefisto Temptation better than its sibling, better in term to connect me to music. Even though Macbeth still provide better refinement at micro detail and imaging quality.

- Moses is indeed a fun and allround IEM, love the bass, the smooth yet clean treble and vocal, with big imaging.

However, there are several other IEMs that didn't got attention from Canjam NY (I think because some of them did not revealed yet there):

Mystic Craft Hex. Close to neutral presentation with extremely good at provide density of notes through all spectrum. Brilliant treble without harshness, love how natural and smooth the Vocal, and bass is simply weighty, controlled, with a pack of fun factor and satisfying punch. Crazy good technicalities blend really nicely with musical feeling. Easily become one of my most favorite IEM in this Canjam.

Dita Audio Ventura, the biggest surprised for me. Simply the best Single DD IEM I ever experienced by far. There are several units, all of them with different sound. What I prefer the least is the black one due to some "muffle" feeling at lower mid area. The others Ventura sound more perfect for my taste. Big soundstage and great pin point imaging, sweet presentasion of treble and vocal, a bit at relax side, combine with full body bass, that has good impact but far from boomy or bloated. Now I just hope they release the one version that I like lol.

PMG V3 Prototype. Compare to PMG Apx SE I feel the V3 deliver more energy at bass area. More weighty, more "aggressive" presentation on bass freq. Low treble/upper mid also got some additional energy at the same time, make V3 feels more toe tapping, but also less silky smooth than the SE.

Craft Ear Omnium Titanium. I like this better than the Omnium OG. More solid attack notes, combine with fuller body tonality, but retain clean and rich of texture through all spectrum. Vocal is kind of neutral with just a hint of wetness to create natural presentation, smooth and crisp treble, with weighty solid bass. Also come with prototype Impedance Adapter to adjust the thickness in tonality. I like this even more than the excellent Moses.

Volk Audio Etoile. A bit remind me of "near field" monitor speaker presentation. Vocal presentation is excellent, big imaging at Midrange area, rich of texture and quite neutral here (neutral in really good way). Somehow Etoile reminds me a little of LCD-5's presentation (not tonality). Detail treble is quite complete, bass also solid and dense, but again, in more neutral way, so no "extra" bite or punch to deliver "extra" musical feel.

Noble Shogun. I like the midrange and treble tonality here, bass also provide great punch energy. Soundstage is wide, and separation quality is good, even though the competition out there is quite tough, and some of other Summit Fi IEM do these 2 things better.

Soranik Prototype "Green Board". Set aside from Dio, this is also one of the biggest soundstage performer, very wide and spacious, great airiness feeling on top, combine with fluid and silky smooth full body vocal. Bass may rather a bit weak though. If only the bass may improve a bit like the "Red Board" prototype, this would be perfect.

I couldn't believe I didn't get chance tried Canpur 622 Titanium. Came to their booth 4-5 times but the demo unit always busy.

Will upload photos later, along with some other impression for stuff that I like such 7th Acoustics Asteria, Elysian Apostle, UM Jet Black, Thieaudio Valhalla, Fir Project K, Nine YU9, and Crin Meta.

P.s: Within my personal taste, I still value Brise Fugaku as my most favourite IEM ever, but still, many other brands able to surprised me to send such exciting and beautiful sounding IEM as well (and without need to use external amp). We truly live in the era of Golden age for IEM indeed!

Currently listening to SP3000M + UM Jet Black with PW Dreamy Cable while writing this impression.

 

[Audioenophile]

I love u nightjar Onix IC
Make Fgk tonality more into my preference

Is this a prototype IC or just something they don’t sell yet?

 

[Ishcabible]

“Let it go” in a discussion where two people disagree on impressions of an IEM is something I’d agree with because there’s no point in trying to change someone’s impressions for their lived experience.

“Let it go” when someone is trying to police other people from trying to feel comfortable in the community they are serving is very different to me.

 

[TheMiddleSky]

Is this a prototype IC or just something they don’t sell yet?

They already sell it

 

[Ishcabible]

Going back on topic I’m excited to see new Soranik prototypes; I used a few of the MEMS protos they’ve had and they had quite a few issues. The next CanJam I’ll be able to make won’t be until Dallas so looking forward to see if they’ve made good progress by then.