Not exactly and it's not that long ago, lol. I am not an old guy.
I only tried to play the violin so I really can't say what impressions I have on the violin sound up close. All I can say is they don't sound that nasal.
Choosing this recording simply because I enjoy listening to Bach and I think Daniel is a really good, technical and expressive violinist. (I recently listened to a sample track of Ray Chan's album and I feel sorry to say that I really find his playing especially the note weight rather messy although I don't even play the violin). The recording of this album is also pretty good. I also listened to this album:
I find the strings sounding very thin and not lively almost not sounding real to me so I think Daniel's album was a good choice.
I also read that the EDX is good for EDM and R & B, etc. But I think the soundstage and the timbre of the EDX, to me, are really good for classical music too. As I said before I am a believe in cable and eartip rolling so I even listed what I used above. I am pretty sure they can totally change the character of a pair of IEM so it may sound bad with your setup but sound really good with mine. It's hard to compare without controls.
Thank you. It feels that these recordings emphasize orchestral sound, with the violin recorded from a distance.
With the violins recorded up close, the sound details can be different, especially with pizzicato.
I do not play violin, but when my children started to play I took some interest in violin acoustics, finding the right strings (sometimes it takes years).
With this hobby, I went to explore what would be the best approximation of violin sound by IEMs, which is for me BAs by far. An overall timbre may suffer, but reproducing the richness of the details listening very close to a violin is definitely worth it for me.
I would not ever claim of exact reproduction or reference sound (there may be several references selected), just the best approximation to my ears.
As for the cables, definitely there is often a difference when upgrading from the high-impedance stock cables, but beyond that no evidence was ever shown that silver, copper and spc cables of the same resistance with the same connectors are any different (and, again, sensitive rigs are out there to back up any claims, as it is convincingly done documenting effects of different tips and venting modification).
I have not bothered to compare EDX with its stock cable. I used 16-core balanced one right away (feeling a bit of irony that the cable is more expensive than the IEM).
EDX are very nice for its price, if it works for the enjoyment of orchestral music - then they are precious for $5-$7
Feeling guilty of off-topic in the TRN thread. I recently got M10 (skipping why), a quite lovely design.
I only could not figure out polarity...
Not surprisingly, I like M10 sound more than EDX - just that cheerful BA in the nozzle.