Bass is so dominating the mids are hard to enjoy. I may adjust stuff later. It is a basshead set for sure. Great technical ability but you need to try and catch stuff over the din of the bass
Totally dwarfs even the EE Legend X
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Welcome to my struggle as well. This is the reason my rankings are still a WIP and keep micro adjusting over time⌠And I still havenât touched the preference/bias column yet.
And then you get 1000 more questions and blames 
Good times, 1st world reviewer problems
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There is a tidal wave of smut and sex on Tik Tok and a sparring video is gruesome and shocking? Really?
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Interesting. For me the bass is the most forgettable thing about Annihilator. I also think its technicalities is a step above Z1R
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Curious? Why the sony ex8000st lower on your list?
That and many others. Theyâve gone up and down overnight. You rely on a youtuber for what?
The point is that itâs no longer just that you have to find a headphone reviewer that suits your tastes, but also that they donât change their mind so drastically.
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Why wouldnât someone change their mind though? Just because they thought something was TOTL in say, 2019, theyâre not allowed to move it down when the hobby has advanced by light years in 3 years?
Or something you didnât vibe with, you come back to it and find a special sauce in it. Just because you didnât like it before, you canât change your mind and say itâs good now?
Get out of here with that mess. Iâd rather someone change their opinion, if they have a reason they can articulate that gives me new information.
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It is very easy. For those who can afford to spend 2000 euros per month in iems there will be no problem with the changes.
For the rest of the people, I think that being a reviewer of a certain fame in the world is mandatory to have professionalism because there are a lot of people who trust your opinions and spend money on something.
Of course you can change your mind. You can move up and down categories. That was done in your list to a lesser extent.
And no, donât be fooled. Weâre not talking about 2019 iems. At least I am. Weâre talking about iems like timeless (late 2021) for example. Now below. Others above.
Recommendations of the same now are a âbad iemâ or âaverage iemââŚ
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Using the Timeless as the example: Last year, there were not a lot of planar IEM recommendations to be had at all. The P1 Plus is the only planar I heard multiple reviewers have positive things to say about, before Timeless came out. And not only did Timeless have a great reputation, but it did it at a price point that was unheard of. Yes, it got hyped.
Since late-2021, weâve seen what, 6 new planar IEMs come out that had pre-production or early release hype on them. And theyâve slowly inched the price point below the Timeless, while having their own flavors that may or may not be better than Timeless but there is a huge variety of options now. No DUH peopleâs opinions about where Timeless stacks up has changed. Itâs not that people say âTimeless sucksâ, but if you have options then people are going to have opinions, including but not limited to âTimeless was great when it had the market to itself, but these other sets have now entered the conversation.â
Heck, Aria was a beast hype train even 6 months ago, and now the evolution of the hobby has passed it by. You donât believe me? Then ask Moondrop why they already dropped a new Aria, with an updated tuning and completely different driver technology. You donât have to like it, but that is the reality of the IEM game.
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Since youâve focused on Timeless, Iâll make it even simpler for you.
Less than 5 days ago it was top10.
Now itâs top 89.
Itâs the only one. No. There are many more.
Iâm not going to get into the debate. This is not debatable.
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I think heâs a great reviewer, but you do have a point. For example he said Mest was better than z1r in every way but now z1r is ranked higher.
I remember another video he said one of unique melody all ba iems were better than Trailli, now theyâre at the bottom. That iem was very expensive. I think it was the Fusang. What if i bought that iem off that recommendation and Iâm not rich. I would be pissed 
Just one or two adjustments is understandable, but not a complete overhaul.
Cinnacleâs list seems to be more consistent but i prefer bggar as a reviewer. Just not so quick to pull the trigger on his multi-kilobuck recs. If something is on Amazon, it doesnât matter if i can easily get a refund.
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Seriously, grown adults buying an item which will be subjective to each person, and then buying that item, and then the person who recommended them doesnât rate them so highly anymore and now the problem is the person who recommended them?! Iâm flabbergasted that what the person who bought them thinks of the item isnât the most important thing here?!
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That doesnât make sense.
Arguably, the main purpose of reviewers have been to rec or recommend iem that their audience didnât hear. If we could hear every iem before purchasing it, we wouldnât need reviewers that much
Not giving reviewers constructive criticism makes us no different than apple fan boys.
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Companies releasing new products not because they want to release new products and show everyone how awesome it is, but because they want to make profit. And sometimes it doesnât even matter if product is good, bad or âevolutionaryâ. Itâs not evolution - itâs business.
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How can you hold someone to their subjective opinion?! Isnât that the whole point and risk we take as buyers?!
Again. Your logic makes no sense and youâre contradicting yourself.
If what youâre saying is true, how can you hold us to our subjective opinion that ratings shouldnât drastically change within 1 day?
The point of credible reviewers is to minimize risks.
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Two things that you do not seem to address:
1). Does his âitâs still in progress and has SO MUCH MORE to do to be accurateâ excel sheet rankings invalidate your own personal subjective experience, if youâve even listened to the set youself?
2). Do these rankings invalidate the reviews heâs actually given for the sets, where you can listen to him explain what the sets do to the music he listens to, and what his opinion of those are?
Cause in my opinion, the answer to both of those questions is no. The question for you is if you think it does, why?
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But HBB is free to do what he chooses with HIS rankings. Create your own rankings, enjoy your iems. Regardless if heâs a reviewer or not, heâs beholden to his own judgements, not yours dude
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