šŸ”¶ 7HZ Timeless Planar

I have been in touch with Dudo on AliX to get the timeless for 170 USD. I havenā€™t placed the order myself, but the process is simple: Contact Dudo directly, say you heard about the 170 USD deal for the Timeless from Head-fi. The seller might ask you to order then cancel or donā€™t pay, but if you donā€™t want to go through this, you can also ask for a unique payment link.

Again, I havenā€™t tried this, but others have managed to get this deal (see Timeless Head-fi thread).

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Thanks man! It would still be $20 more than sale + $50 discount, but then I could use the $50 on something else $100. Iā€™m just not seeing anything Iā€™d want to. Still frustrated about the Hekili.

EDIT: Iā€™m starting to wish Iā€™d never jumped on the card. Iā€™m still only on the fence about trying the Timeless, Iā€™d only really be doing it to make use of the card. I wonder if itā€™d be worth selling the code on to someone who has $100+ plans at Linsoul. Obviously that discussion wouldnā€™t take place here if so.

FYI, if you like the ear tips on the Timeless, they appear to be these

I like the dark blue ear tips, and was trying to hunt them down, and thought that the price was pretty reasonable for a good ear tip.

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yeah, Iā€™ve bought my last gear all from Dudo. They the best :wink:

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Some memes are too funny not to get sucked in

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Stupid questionā€¦

Anyone have the Samsung Buds Pro and the Timeless?
I know it is orange and apples, butā€¦ how it compares?

One can fall apart, other wonā€™t :grimacing:

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I donā€™t have Buds Pro, but Galaxy Buds Plus have much better bass impact/slam/rumble than Timeless. This isnā€™t unique to the Buds Plus, it seems to be the biggest disadvantage of Timeless in comparison to any decent dynamic driver.

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Well thereā€™s always a trade-off isnā€™t there? Show me a single DD in this price range with the resolution of Timeless.

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Left


Right

got fed up with my channel imbalance and took to tone generator and peace to balance it myself and hooo boyyy thats some wacky balancing
used graphical eq for better granular control

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Some of my ā€œchannel imbalanceā€ turned out to be hearing imbalance. Have you tested this on other gear? Thankfully EQ can compensate for this aswell

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Listening to a song on my KZ ZS7 sounds perfectly balanced. On my Timeless it sounds like right side treble is recessed but left side is sparkly. Like they completely threw trying to match similar response units together and just throw random left and right pieces into the box

edit: if I shove the right as far in as I can manage and barely sit the left in my ear the channel imbalance is way less noticeable but thatā€™s still pretty wrong isnā€™t it

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Okay damn, that is quite a big difference in drivers then.

Oh damn. Thatā€™s a lotta work. I hope it works out for you :slight_smile:

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ok so my channel imbalance adventure continues withā€¦ trash quality mmcx cable with mic that I was using on my Shure SE215.

I was playing around with my audio devices with 1 side in trash cable and 1 side in stock cable and I turned on the listen to the mic function in the mic driver and I noticed that some of the background sound was playing on the side connected to the trash cable but not audible on the side in the stock cable.
after connecting both to the trash cable the right side sounds brighter somehow? could equally be a placebo effect but the channel imbalance is also much less noticeable now. This Timeless is a whole bag of worms

edit: ok switching 1 side back does seem to have an audible effect on sound but again could just be placebo. I have no fking clue if what Iā€™m doing is helping at all and I was also considering a JCALLY JC20 for the 3 button inline mic and the pretty blue cable but idk if I should attempt a return or try to fix my imbalance more. Also im worried about the durability of swapping cables too much

Yet another positive reviewā€¦ :open_mouth: :slight_smile:

This is more of a planar flaw than a timeless flaw. But yes, this is the primary reason the timeless didnā€™t retire my Zen.

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Hifigo will be sending me a new unit. Had to pay for the shipping, which I guess is fine, not optimal since iā€™ve had to had a fair few items replaced recently, but I guess there is no way around it.

Will be enjoying mostly earbuds (RY4S+ on currently) until I get refreshed. Different vibes!

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ā€œAcoustic Alchemy - Live in Londonā€ sounds freaking awesome on this setā€¦ :slight_smile:

Specifically ā€œJamaica Heartbeatā€ā€¦

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