LOL, cracked me up…and a classsic movie…and yes I noticed 
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Interestingly I think you helped prove my point, the Cadenza isn’t necessarily a special stand out set. It’s very pretty and admittedly, the looks alone sucked me in but the tuning isn’t special and it’s more of the same, ya know? I’ll get to try them out in 2 weeks time with Brandon so I’ll have more cohesive thoughts then for sure.
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LOL
Shit 
Well, at least by 2pm my time I’ll start to settle down and spare you guys with 4000 character non-sense!
Also, American Psycho is absolutely a banger. Love that movie
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Exactly my point
Just put all of them together: It’s another swing at the same flavor.
It’s good, it’s not going to be significantly different than any of the other killers.
Rinse and repeat
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I’m perfectly content with this ‘flavor’ just combine it with a harder slamming driver like the Zen and a Planar for the treble and I’m done! 
We’re copy/pasting the sound signature, so I’m sure they’ll hit those in like 6 months LOL
Just a quick note: it would appear that the entry in your Squig for this IEM after you changed it from “Sample 7” is just the QKZ x HBB Khan graph.
And on the 7th day QKZ made .,… The Khan!
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@hawaiibadboy just a question I had while reflecting on my first listens to Khan: the shell has no venting that I can see. Considering that, is the tuning on the subwoofer driver maxing out the bass, or was it tuned to attenuate it any?
I’m curious because the way iFi xBass gave me a more satisfying bass reproduction, I’m disappointed that I can’t do a simple mod to get a little more performance out of the bass.
I mean, Moondrop does this with a good part of their lineup. They offer pretty similar tunings and increases in driver quality and/or tech with the idea that their lineup essential starts at the bottom and offers almost direct upgrades at each successive level. There are minor differences of course and they do offer sets that diverge from theit VDSF based tuning target, but they’ve stated on the Chinese head-fi kinda place (I think it’s called erji or something like that) that this is the basic concept behind their multi-tier strategy.
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NF Audio and KBear seem to take a similar approach, when you compare their various sets against each other
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I didn’t know that. I have no experience with NF and only limited experience with KBEar (aside from their TRI stuff which I have heard quite a bit of).
I was looking at some of the NF brand graphs, and the through line between budget and next step up model is blatant
I need to rewatch it
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You’re right: between aria, starfield and Kato, the signatures seem to be close enough for what I had in mind.
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Well Aria is really a starfield replacement. The current Moondrop upgrade path is Chu —> Aria —> KATO —> Blessing —> Illumination/Variations for mid/sub bass focus respectively
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It is a total classic. 
Best Huey Lewis & The News reference ever. That scene always kills me, especially the way he does that little dance across the room as he puts on the raincoat and grabs the ax. So perfect! 
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