.Don't let the UI affect you since there are Pros and Cons. One thing for me is that it's fast and 3 clicks to play the song. It's functional. Try and listen to one first
But I know it's getting harder to get hold of one since the LP7 will be delayed and not even confirmed to come out hence people are holding onto their current ones and even people snapping up the old ones.
Thanks, it's Luxury and Precision.
Nice blue strap & an awesome L&S ...
Coherence I think of as the extent to which a sound signature manifests as though from a unified whole or single sonic tapestry...for lack of a better way to put it. I'm not trying to say that people are wrong for loving their hybrid & tribrid IEMs or that any specific hybrids are incoherent. On the contrary my use of this term stems more from my trying to capture something I appreciate about single driver or single driver type IEMs like the Zen Pro or Supermoon. There is a real allure for me in single driver sound signatures...I have trouble putting it in words exactly but there is a quality they have that really stands out to me when it's there and is more and more apparent with time. I'm sorry for not being able to explain myself better.
Timbre I relate to the overall feel of the sound. It's quite connected to FR which is why I sometimes closely associate it with tonality-- but imho it is not just FR. In my experience different driver types are characterized by a specific "feel" which I think can be traced back to the speed of the driver and what it is doing-- a DD is a vibrating membrane for example, and a BA is a vibrating reed. There are obviously extremes brought about by different tuning but to my ears DD timbre, in particular in the lows and mids, is characterized by a certain natural body and richness. BAs in the mids often feel unnaturally thin to me after a while. Estats also have a very specific feel-- I wouldn't want them doing my mids or bass.. Done well I don't notice at first but I've yet to embrace a fully BA IEM (or lately an IEM with the BA doing the mids) for any substantial length of time. Planars, for me, are the best of all worlds.
The thing with both of these factors is that neither really jump out at me right away in a quick demo or blind test situation...but over time they tend to jump out at me and be increasingly more important.
I should have listed tonality as well. Timbre, Tonality, Technicalities and Coherence.
Maybe, but at least we're talking
Ok so in both cases you're talking about coherence and timbre of the drivers. Got it. It all makes sense, just needed to know which parameters you're discussing. As for emotional engagement or 'getting in the groove', it's no secret I found my groove the minute I heard the Sony Signature sound in my brain. That's my bar for everything else now, which is why I keep it well away from my mainstream reviews. Because, you know...Coherency is how the overall sound melds together and is major component of resolving ability. With a high quality driver handling the entire spectrum, coherency shouldn't be an issue but it can definitely be affected by the speed of the driver and its ability to handle all the info being thrown at it every second. A single driver has to produce slower bass notes and cram all the treble and mids in between almost simultaneously. In a way, a competent driver acting alone has more control in producing a seemless sound since it's literally doing all of its own work. A high res driver is inherently more coherent than a low res one. In IEMs, a well designed crossover should eliminate phase issues and the perception of there being multiple drivers, and for the most part that's true, but it's not always that simple. With the LX, one gripe was that the bass seemed to permeate the rest of the sound and not in the usual "bass bleeding into the mids" way. I figured it was because the sound is literally coming out of different tubes at the same time. When I switch over to the Vega 2020, which has a comparable quantity of bass, I don't get the same effect. With hybrid designs, you also introduce the issue of mixing DD timbre with BA/EST timbre.
Moving on to timbre, I understand it to be the distinct character of the sound. Sound is characteristically different depending on the material by which it's produced, what it's bouncing off of, or travelling through. A biocellulose driver has a unique timbre and decay compared to a beryllium driver. BAs can be extremely articulate with an unnaturally fast decay that can sound dull and plasticky, or metallic meaning raspy, wobbly, or searing, as if you were listening through a metal tube. Open backs may have an airier timbre compared to closed backs, which may be more reverberent. I remember when I tried the Utopia and it made saxophones sound raspy and weirdly resonant. I was super disappointed and wondered if that had anything to do with the fact that it's a metal driver.
Emotional engagement just means you're getting into the groove. It doesn't replace or negate describing how and why you got there
By that you mean high-end Android R2R I assume? Watch this space...
...yeah, that's not going to happen, not high-end anyway. You're probably looking at upward of $2.5K for Android, and upward of $6K for the rumoured L&P flagship. High-end R2R is not easy to get right in DAP format.
Looks like you’re teasing something…
Same here with N6ii Ti and RS6 that is a bit less techinical but still transparent with wamer/bodied tone and longer decay.
LP6 Ti or P6 pro aren't?I tihnk the most natural upgrade of n6ii TI (that is to say a flagship R2R DAP) isn't out yet
A high end R2R dap from anyone would be a treat.
Thank you very much for your feedback, Andro Gold should have more bass right?
