That is 100% a typo
Will change that soon 
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No prob. i thought KZ was runnin weird for a second. 
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Def going to try if they have emā. I remember CanJam 2023 had some super duper early version of the xmems drivers at this small table off to the side. One guy was running it. The line was 5-8 people deep at all times so I skipped. It was my first CanJam so I had so much to try, I didnāt have it as my priority. Iāll def try this year, though
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That filter and those drivers. Mmmm
GNX sounds dope as fuck
My Eagles playing at a Kendrick Super Bowl.
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That Brise cable thoughā¦ 
Iām looking forward to Kendrick tearing the house down at the Superbowl. I usually skip the halftime show, but this year, Iām all in.
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Thank you very kind.
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They did and on paper anything with Bellsing drivers is technically forbidden in the US. But this is pretty much impossible to actually enforce soā¦
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If IEM are the wild west, then what are cables?
āMuh 8n UOCCā, āMuh silverā, āMuh [Insert random exotic material]ā. Nobody checks those claims as far as I know.
I have contacts in some of the most advanced labs on the planet for commodities because I work in the 2nd largest petrochemical cluster in the world. (Think Bureau Veritas, SGS, Saybolt, AmSpec, BASF, Exxon, Cargill, Glencore etc.) I asked a few if they were willing to check the composition of a cable.
They flat-out refused. Too much of a hassle apparantly.
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If you have a University close by maybe they have a lab that can help. There is a YouTube video with a dude getting interconnects checked. Sadly I donāt remember the channelš
Edit: I found it! https://youtu.be/XVLR9EuCkgo?si=k72BY413NcUBYPmt
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Yeah, thereās gotta be some serious grifting going on in the cable space. I imagine it makes the drivers stuff look like childās play. Itās a seriously ātrust us broā situation, and people just lap it up. Why not, when you canāt measure it without insane equipment (electricallyā¦ of course you canāt measure it auditorily if weāre not talking crazy differences in the cable impedance). Sorry, donāt want to derail this into another cables argument that are the scourge of every audio forum 
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As far as I am concerned, thereās only two things that actually matter in cables: Does it conduct correctly and does it have appropriate impedance for the application?
By conduct correctly, as long as the signal passes without significant distortion then itās good. This means that itās built correctly (no weird disconnections or bad solder joints, no reversed polarity on one side, etc) and they can be made of copper, silver or any number of metals and metalloids provided the signal comes through. I do not think that anything short of a room-temperature super-conductor could make a difference in the transmission of electrons. Hell, I donāt know that weāve ever proven that oxidation adversely affects it in an audible way provided that the contacts themselves are clean.
By impedance, itās the old ā1/8 ruleā; basically your cable should measure resistance at 1/8th (or less) resistance than the transducer to prevent unwanted alteration of the audio signal. In a single-DD, BA or Planar driver this matters far, far less than a hybrid. Most decent cables will measure somewhere beween 0.7-1.0 ohms resistance in my experience. Some rarities like the Yongse Ruyi Rod measure up to ~15.1 ohms (I personally measured this after someone on youtube made a video), making like a cable with an in-built bass adapter. Itās a fine cable but one needs to know that it will change how a hybrid sounds based on the resistance.
You honestly shouldnāt need a chemical engineer or metallurgist to prove what any bargain basement or amateur electrician could prove with schematics and basic math. Everything else is prose and fluff IMO, and no one has managed to prove otherwise in some ~70+ years of audiophilia, neither in the headphone space nor in speakers and PA.
Edit: Nice looking cables have an aesthetic appeal though, and should be treated like any other jewelry IMO. Donāt expect real-world differences but if it makes you feel better then just be happy with it, placebo is worth as much as anything in this hobby (as long as it doesnāt break your wallet and you spend the money where it really matters first).
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In my own database majority of cables there are under 0.3ohm.
As for the impedance thing, here is more detail.
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btw i wasnt trying to attack you or anything XD i was genuinely asking. Rn my candidates are down to Odyssey, C4, Myer D62. Maybe Volume S too. I will wait out this year first tho probably. We are still in january, who knows what these companies have in store for us this year!
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I think It was d41/pa02 where the bad ba driver argument first came. Some ppl still defended it saying its pretty good, I donāt hear bad baā¦ etc. I have demod a few of these new breed sets and say with certainty My arcadia sounds league above all of em. if you are ok with slightly bad looking faceplate Kz would smack them to pieces. Why would you pay $160-$250 for overpriced sets. the drivers arent bad per say its just kz uses them in their $30-$50 sets. If they are using good drivers they can just come out and say that na.
I have gotten cynical over the yrs. Iād caution you to stay away from Myer audio, juzear, NiceHCK, Pualā¦ etc brand. Most of their sets are overpriced
both great choice, volumeS too, Although its just 1DD+2BA. Their tuning is absolutely on point. I own studio4, RSV, Twilight and you can say I have faith in that brand. At the samee time I do have Mest2 & Indigo from unique melody, and I despise what they have become.
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like kz. joking aside Iām looking forward to zenith. seems like a good dd with the potential of being a EDC set
Forgot, Wait till summer sale to buy anything Since new things release every month might be new things you want.
Ah, that looks interesting. Iāll give that video a watch later tonight. Also, I almost got confused. Waterloo is about a good hours drive away from me and to my knowledge there is no university there. Then I saw it was the Canadian Waterloo.
@yogurt @Sonofholhorse
For me it isnāt so much about how a cable measures or wether a cable changes the sound, but about what the actual materials used are vs those the seller claims are used. If you pay for a cable that supposedly has expensive exotic materials in it, but in reality it is just a basic copper cable then that is a scam. It doesnāt matter if it measures the same or not.
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I love me some brackets! This will keep me pumped in the time before March madness!
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