I am wondering if soon or late an IEM will be able to reproduce the full audible frequency range like only the Sennheiser HE-1 manage to do it almost perfectly with such simple test...
Those have tested many headphones and IEM => all are losing significant frequencies that we can catch instantly....
sorry, didnt know this is the thread for dreamers only. im out
one last thing you can even measure the things the other guy listed, but just do your own research if you care. quite easy to find. you would need a basic understanding of physics tho.
the funny thing is theat when i read about specific gear needs a burn in, in 20 years i never read about separation, prat and the likes, but basically things like, the phone opened up, treble came out, the bass came to shine. which all are freq response effects you should be able measure even for the not so sophisticated folks.
it is what hifi always has been, some are on the esoteric side of things and some on the scientific side. i wonder if the "believers" also are the ones that said, there is no pandemic
I am wondering if soon or late an IEM will be able to reproduce the full audible frequency range like only the Sennheiser HE-1 manage to do it almost perfectly with such simple test...
Those have tested many headphones and IEM => all are losing significant frequencies that we can catch instantly....
I got my Amber Pearl IEM yesterday and have been in awe at how it sounds with the Cayin. N30LE.
My all-time favourite until very recently, in the UM Mentor, is now back in its box and on the classifieds.
The Pearl sounds bigger and bolder, bass hits harder with the soundstage being just as deliciously expansive.
I couldn't stop listening for a long time last night. Simply incredible..
it is what hifi always has been, some are on the esoteric side of things and some on the scientific side. i wonder if the "believers" also are the ones that said, there is no pandemic
I got my Amber Pearl IEM yesterday and have been in awe at how it sounds with the Cayin. N30LE.
My all-time favourite until very recently, in the UM Mentor, is now back in its box and on the classifieds.
The Pearl sounds bigger and bolder, bass hits harder with the soundstage being just as deliciously expansive.
I couldn't stop listening for a long time last night. Simply incredible..
The only question remaining is whether to go for the PWA FTS or Eletech's OTL. Kinda leaning towards the latter but might wait until the Amsterdam meet up instead.
EDIT: in typical rash fashion, Ode to Laura it is!
I'd say Ace is Aroma's take on 'neutrality'. Has 2 switches/4 modes, which provides flexibility across music genres. Looks and sits in one's ears great, cable swapping is necessary. Not a big fan of Aroma's products, but Jewel > Ace > Fei Wan for me, YMMV.
I remember this was released at the Erlkonig era, where both iems were multi-BA flagships. I personally preferred the goblin king, but I know a few Asians preferred Ace.
How exactly will you measure timbre, instrument separation, soundstage depth, width, height, PRaT, micro and macro dynamics, et cetera? We're open to your suggestions.
Timbre is through frequency response, as it will alter the source signal and color the original timbre as tuned by the mixing and mastering engineer.
All those other characteristics can be measured by a battery of tests including square waves and DIRAC pulses by observing the delta between the original digital signal and the recorded sound from the transducer or a reconversion through an ADC if you are testing components upstream of the transducer.
"Sound stage" is a more contentious topic because that depends on a number of factors that contribute to modifying the source signal's spatial cues as implemented by the recording engineer (binaural recording techniques for instance) or the mixing/mastering engineer (through software plug-ins playing with panning, reverb, EQ, phase differentials, etc) in such a way that renders a universal analysis practically impossible for HPs, let alone IEMs. These tracks are mixed on studio monitors usually, so spatial cues are building off a HRTF and HRIR that are not translatable exactly to the audience, and mastering those tracks further muddies the water by adding frequency exciters and distortion to ensure performance on systems that are not up to spec, especially speaker systems that don't have a proper subwoofer and room treatment. The measurement methodology for this is as yet unknown because of the psychoacoustic nature of sound imaging, although we can get close by mimicing the spatial cues observed through a binaural recording setup.
sorry, didnt know this is the thread for dreamers only. im out
one last thing you can even measure the things the other guy listed, but just do your own research if you care. quite easy to find. you would need a basic understanding of physics tho.
the funny thing is theat when i read about specific gear needs a burn in, in 20 years i never read about separation, prat and the likes, but basically things like, the phone opened up, treble came out, the bass came to shine. which all are freq response effects you should be able measure even for the not so sophisticated folks.
it is what hifi always has been, some are on the esoteric side of things and some on the scientific side. i wonder if the "believers" also are the ones that said, there is no pandemic
Mark of super reviews did a burn in test of the FH5s to try applying the prescribed solution to that set's knives out upper mids and treble. A difference was measured, but it was extremely subtle.
Acclimatization is the far more coherent explanation for the burn-in phenomenon in IEMs and possibly to a lesser extent HPs (given the size of the transducers that are theoretically susceptible to burn-in outside of a function check in the factory).
Speakers are far more likely to be susceptible to burn-in, so people are applying the transitive property to this observation whether it's supported by evidence or not.
As for my Trailli Ti, I'll lend it to my friend @AxLvR together with my Creator so he can review it and maybe share it here
I hope you're doing good too @Valrhona
Quite interesting, isn't it? The feedback is so similar around the world, even when accounted for personal preferences it still is very much uniform. @Animagus thank you for the wonderful review! I really appreciate it.
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