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

Cable sucks though

How much and what cable do you recommend?

The SE is $1800
I have not found a cable worthy of my new baby…enjoying looking :laughing:

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Just a shame about the cable for a 1800$ set.

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Agreed on the cable - isn’t 64Audio known for particularly crappy cables for their sets too?

Yep. The U12t has a crappy cable.

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Yeah that’s what I’ve heard. It’d be amazing if these larger companies can figure out how to make cables like or even recruit people like XINHS to make their cables. I have a $20 (Literally) cable from XINHS and its fantastic. So I don’t think cost is an issue.

The Truthears Zero uses a cable just like what 64 Audio used for years.
For a $50 set it’s great.
This set having a ghetto cable in 2022 is kinda infuriating.
I paid a lot. it sounds amazing.
Buy a better cable in bulk of Alibaba and fucking try harder man.

I hate when companies do A-Y then… get to Z and say “Meh, fuck it…we did enough”
It is usually tuning
I get it, they don’t know what the fuck they are doing.
This is a cable man.
I could DM 1 person in this hobby, pick the cable, say i want on my set.
It would be done.

Get it done.

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Right. I can’t imagine getting a cable right is anything hard to do in this hobby at this point in time. With so many people doing an amazing job on cables, you’d be hard pressed to find a shortage of talented folk to work with.

Yeah, to add to the pile-on: having to buy an upgrade cable for your $20,$50,$100 set? Maybe you grumble but you get it

Having to buy an upgrade your cable on an $1800 custom-order set?

YEAH, NOPE!

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Yeah 64 is usually overpriced for sound quality but their build quality is solid.

Some of my chifi stuff usually have qa issues. Some issues minor some big. It doesn’t matter for cheap stuff but they start charging American prices for crappy build quality and that’s a problem.

Of course Japan iems are usually built like a tank.

But yeah, for that much money i shouldn’t have to buy a cable too.

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Dam u got me hype on that one. Never heard u consider a iem to be better than Elysian.

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A Japan exception, maybe there are more, is driver matching in Final Audio IEMs — many documented cases of terrible matching. I’ve never noticed an imbalance in either E4000 I’ve owned, but I’ve never graphed them.

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Intime doesnt have that good qc either.



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It sounds fantastic. :sparkling_heart: :notes:

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I had to return a pair of e5000s because the bass on the right IEM was noticeably higher compared to the left. It’s the most blatant example of driver mismatching I have ever personally experienced. The replacement pair I received was fine though and I have owned two other Final IEMs with no problems.

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Feeling a lot better now :sparkling_heart: :notes: :v:
Cable rage soothed :space_invader:

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Looks like the Reecho & Peacock Spring 1 cable?..

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You are like Rain man or something.
That’s the exact cable you thought it was :notes: :raised_hands:

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Me :nerd_face:…:trophy: :smile:

(10characters :sleeping:)

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