Good stuff. His personal comparison at the end kind of reminded me of my reasoning to go for the Clairvoyance. When I ordered it, there was a bit more "enthusiastic praise" for the Monarch in general. And in the past months, I'd say there's been a lot more of that towards Monarch.
In 2020 and going forward, I've been having a majorly renewed interest in exploring new music and expanding my taste in music. And by "new music" I mean new for me, or stuff that I have sort of ignored previously. What it means in practice is that since autumn I have been listening mostly to late 60s and 70s music, particularly psychedelic rock, funk, soul, African music from the 70s etc. A lot of Prince, and then it kind of fuses to my long-time preferences as well in 90s Goa/house/rave/trance and ambient/psybient and stuff like britpop, Depeche Mode, Vangelis and early Pink Floyd.
Like here's a shortlist of bands/artists that I have sort of "found" in the past few months and listened a lot lately (obviously knowing many of these by name but not given a proper listen):
ELO, Traffic, George Harrison, Gong, Future sound of London, Dr. John, Kourosh Yaghmaei, Dur-Dur band, Gil Scott-Heron, Mike Oldfield, Elton John (well I just started with Captain Fantastic), Curtis Mayfield, Ramases, Gandalf, Fela Kuti, Kendrick Lamar, Jeff Buckley, Loreena McKennitt, and frankly even the great Beatles albums since 1965. And many more of course.
But thing is, I have no idea how much of this is an actual effect of Clairvoyance and how much would I have drifted to this direction with other IEMs (I haven't really listened to other IEMs since getting Clairvoyance). Or how much the effect of the excellent Cayin N3Pro. I just listen to a lot of music and Clairvoyance is an excellent facilitator for stuff in the 1965-late 90s range in particular, and works well with male and female vocals.
Of course, I do also listen to stuff made in this century, but it doesn't seem to be the focus for me at this point. There's just so much good stuff that was made particularly in 1967-1975 that those records along with electronic music of the 90s is enough to fill a lifetime.
These ramblings were partly to give my account to the Clairvoyance vs. Monarch issue. Which is a pretty tough choice for many I think, and most of us can't even try both of them. So I have no idea how much I would enjoy Monarch. Probably it would steer my listening habits to a partly different direction? I suppose if Thieaudio would come up with "2nd generation twins", I would probably buy the Monarch equivalent to facilitate discoveries in recently recorded music´, and integrate that to my other preferences.
Not apologizing infact, thought I was confusing you again. ☺
What biz? Show biz?
(at least with that DAP since it has that kind of character).
Some more boring marketing biz.
