enjoy, those sound like an upgrade to the Urbanfun ISS014 to me.
The Good:
Psychoacoustic illusion of stage is quite big owing to treble and semi open back?
micro details/minutia are all present
Treble has natural timbre/tonality which BA drivers cannot replicate.
The Bad
Graph slutz may find fault with mid bass/mids but it is better than the ODIN. So graph slutz push graphs when it suits their narrative.
That is not Really a Bad unless you let squiggly lines sway you more than music.
The UGLY
Hmm…
Packaging is great.
Cable is excellent
Build is fantastic
Quality of the single DD is clear to the ear.
It’s early but nothing falls into ugly
From everything I’ve seen and heard. You can’t believe everything you see on a graph when it comes to Beryllium dynamic drivers. The Focal Stellia graphs similarly wonky but sounds different than expectations would suggest. I think Beryllium can get away with things other more conventional materials struggle with.
Beautiful pictures BGGAR.
These are actually REALLY impressing me
Might get curious enough to try these. I’m a sucker for a nicely tuned single dynamic with some low end weight. I’m going to be keeping these in mind. It helps that they are a really nicely styled set too. I dig the aesthetics.
That’s a good description of these.
After having such a blessed year am paying it forward.
Zeos and gang created a nice community here. I hope it grows and grows and keeps the banners away
How do they sound ? Resolving bass with its 9mm Dynamic driver ?
They are similar to BElieve in graph with an extra 5Khz bump. Fit is great. at $40 roughly…me likes
UM MEST
ThieAudio Clairvoyance
Moondrop illumination
Mangird TEA
KBear BElieve
ThieAudio L4
FiiO FD5
Moondrop DUSK
FiiO FH3
Ooooo DUSK in like a bullet at #8
Surprised me too, since the Blessing 2 was definitely not his cup of Tea
Dusk vs Oxygen? Or did you give the Dusk the win because of fit issues with the oxygen?
I think the Oxygen came out before 2020.
I think if an old iem is better than a newer one, it should be in the list.
But well, thats how I will do it.
Chris mentioned the EJ07 as being one of his very favorites, but because it did not come out in 2020, it wasn’t part of his list.
Maybe we could ask Chris for a list of his 10 favorite IEMs?
I was hoping the “of 2020” in the title would be a crystal clear qualifier
Happy New Year BTW