I do not have an Ext, but I do have the Elysium, VE-8 and Erlkonig from VE along with the JH Layla. I feel VE is a step above. The Layla can be a great IEM, but VE provides a better timbre and superior mids. The Layla has the bass adjustment, but I still prefer all 3 of my VE’s to it. The bass is tighter on the VE’s and I am sure the Ext will continue in that same path.
Thank you very much for replying. My iem are Layla and Fitear togo334. So I’ve been looking for a clear upgrade for those two. Then after I read that many people praise so much about Elysian. Then EXT was announced. LOL I was so excited and deciding the purchase here.
Between the Elysian X and EXT (both have elevated subbass with relatively thin mids and good treble extension), X for me is a much cleaner implementation and also the one that I would tend to recommend.
Thin mids on the EXT? I found it to be one of the thickest sounding monitors I've tried of late, and the midbass on it is pretty fat too, the Elysian X off memory had a pretty much perfectly opposite signature
Some also mentioned the overwhelming bass and edgy upper mids.
Woah I could not have experienced it any more differently - of everything I'd associate with the EXT, edgy upper mids is at the absolute bottom of the list haha - if anything I found it too smooth for my taste
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I’ve had that happen on quite a few of my IEMs, and the OSLO’s plugs are some of the thickest (or furthest apart between the two pins), so I’m not surprised at that. Some of my IEMs have even come that way out of the box.
It’s completely normal, and I haven’t run into any issues because of it.The EXT’s thickness comes more from its mid-bass to my ears, so to say its low-mids aren’t prominent would technically be true. Though, I’d still say they’re very natural, and the mid-bass elevation adds to it as well, so I wouldn’t call it thin, personally. But, as everyone’s said, everyone hears differently, and the EXT’s more-specifically-contoured silhouette may cause those variations to be even larger from one person to the next too.
Haha! I was just about to post a screenshot and tag you.
Indeed. Around the canal bend - which, on most other IEMs, usually only has sound tubes and air - is where they’ve stuffed those quad e-stats. It’s insane, and I can understand why - acoustical issues aside - they wouldn’t have been able to make this a custom without making it Jolene-sized.Taken from their FB… lots of stuff going on inside there
