bvng3540
AKA bvng2210, dragon430
Received the kit from alpha421, everything look good
Looking forward to hearing your impressions.Received the kit from alpha421, everything look good
I have to admit, that my new A18s dethroned my NT6pros as performance champs at three times the cost, but the pros still get a large share of my ear time. The 18s are kept mostly at home for special listening and evenings being pampered where the pros follow me out into the wild during the day. The updated pros that I just got sound like the tour version which is different from my original pair. The original was more transparent throughout for - as averagejoe called it, bell-like clarity - but the new bigger bottom end makes them a more entertaining CIEM while retaining most of the transparency. I am having fun getting reacquainted with the pros.I had a brief chat with bvng3540 at the time of handoff. Hands down, the best of the three was the NT6pro. It filled in the bass department that I felt was lacking a little with the NT6. I wasn't too impressed with the Viento when comparing it to the NT6s'. I can see the appeal with different tuning via the microscopic switches, which I didn't play around much with it due to fear of breakage. It's strange that when the switches were down (I guess off), it sounded lifeless across the board. To me, it was like night and day difference with the switches up/down, and felt it took away too much of what the switches were designed far.
Going back to the NT6pro, you (Barra) can speak from experience I'm sure, but when you've had a taste of truly pinnacle performance with the other current TOTL offerings ( hint...U18t, W900), the TOTL of yesteryears can keep up to a point, and take the win only due to the huge price differences with current TOTL models, the wallet is the only determining factor, which sucks donkey balls.
Members who I've voice my pessimistic opinion with the driver count game/war, well, I'm eating crow (damn you - U18t). Not to take away from this thread, but if I hadn't heard the current TOTL offerings, and my budget was under $1.5K, I would purchase the NT6pro as I really digged it's tonality and technical prowess.
Tour kits are on their way to @@nmatheis
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