Bad Guy Good Audio Rankings and stuff (under construction) (Part 1)

IEMs / Other In-Ear Monitors (IEM)
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The position of the Audio Lokahi in your ranking list is a bit surprising. You were sounding quite confident when you said it’s the best BA set you’ve heard to date, yet it sits below the QDC, Moondrop and Fearless multi BA sets.

Elaborate?

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It’s my favorite all BA set. That list gets a big update 4 times in a year. It hasn’t been and won’t until April.
The Lokahi was added. That’s it.

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So its current position doesn’t truly reflect your thoughts on it in relation to everything else.
Thanks for clarifying!

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@hawaiibadboy what’s your IEM pick for best SUB-BASS?

Specifically, I want the first 20 secs of this song to r u m b l e without losing all the fine details in the treble that image all over

EDIT: I have and love the Clairvoyance (based on your rec, thanks!), but it seems to be more mid-bass. The L3 do a better job with that song, but I want…well…MORE :smiley:

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Sony N3Ap :call_me_hand:
Sub bass over mid bass (clear to the ear), good tonality, can get the subtle details

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bookmarked, thanks!

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Lots of hype right now surrounding the Jotunheim 2, particularly with the Bifrost 2 being suggested as a better DAC than the multibit DAC option in the Jot.

I’m looking forward to your review!

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I’m just getting it because of the power :call_me_hand: :fire:

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Zeos has been hyping headphones and earphones more intensely and frequently lately. He always has, but it seems like especially much now.

He tried an IEM called Tri Starlight 4 .

His notes aren’t detailed, but he’s infatuated with these things. Seems at least very promising from a “fun” listening standpoint.

I’m real interested if BGGAR got his hands on these to review. Is it worth complementing in a collection alongside Clairvoyance, or is it a replacement for them? Trying to preserve my wallet here.

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By both Frequency Response and configuration, the Starlight looks to basically be Tri/KBear’s version of the Shuoer EJ07, albeit with slightly-steeper treble roll-off. I’ve never seen anyone do a direct comparison, but they seem to be very similar.

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He’s got mortgage to pay now… not calling him a shill, not saying his opinion is wrong, but when you have companies sending you products, supplying coupon codes for sales, and ect. you can’t just shit over everything. He needs free gear to make videos (and thus money) from, and if he doesn’t cover certain items on sale from these stores, he might not receive gear from them.

The IEMs probably are excellent, but don’t get drowned in the hype. Gotta take things with salt.

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Hey BGGAR like have you tried any Radius iems from Japan. The hp-twf41 seems pretty nice with a bery driver in it. Just curious since there are smaller manufacturers over there.

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And If you can try some Intime stuff as well would be nice.

Both intime and radius have iems with a DD+piezo driver setup.

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It’s a remake of EJ07 but not quite as good. Have heard it and another variant. Confirmed with maker (not seller) of variants. Nothing wrong withthat if all parties are fine. EJ07 is still the best executed variant in my opinion.

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Thanks for the insight!