It certainly is Kotori has some interesting tuning but they work!
I didn’t know what to think about the graph but what I can say is this thing is special.
Kotori Audio Zephyr
1 Titanium Driver and 1 Knowles BA and It will be less than you would expect
#AntiHarmanGang rejoice!
Wow what a tuning!
waiting for your review on this one! the mids and highs look interesting.
I like the shape of the bass starting at 500Hz.
New Juzear on the way the Dragonfly JUZEAR 81T In-Ear Monitors, the price is 249.99$ ,It’s coming out around November 5th.
I had no idea Revonext was still in the game!
They on the plus’s and pro’s now LOL
The Title says it all!
Best in class and above presentation and unboxing.
Gorgeous shells and Maple Faceplates
Case and Cable will make 64 Audio ashamed
NON HARMAN tuned and has a wonderful Glide for mid bass that lends to great weight for guitar, Cello, piano and male vocals and that perfect balance of not too much bleeding into the mids to mess up female vocals but they are warmer than thinner and drier.
Nice mids with a hint of warmth and color.
Treble has been done to be safer for treble sensitive people.
Needed some power to get going
Too safe for treble heads
Technical details are just OK
3.5 SE Cable only would be nice to have seen a 4.4 balanced version.
The smart thing I should have done was listened to un-modified version first but I can’t stop, falling hard here for my re-tuned set.
Its something everyone can do for $0.50 some micropore tape over front DD vent for the bass boost and a nozzle filter to knock down those upper mids and fix the channel imbalance.
How is that cable?
Its soft but it’s a chunky boi
Speaking of Cables, can you recommend a pretty light blue cable?
PULA Anvil 114 - I got to name this one!
I asked for more mid bass and Tan Donghua came through in spades!
What does an anvil symbolize?
Just as a blacksmith uses an anvil to bend and shape metal into objects, the anvil is a symbol of universe being forged and created.
1x Dynamic Driver 1x 11mm Bone Conductor Driver 4x BA
Any doubts about bieng made in the same factory as DUNU , Same cable they even call it by dunu tradmark name , Dunu Candy tips , double flange and w07 all included and that Case :
You can feel the BC vibrate the shell when you tap the IEM.
First listen tonight
Kotori Audio Zephyr - My tenth sound listing session impressions will reflect my first opinion upon my initial listen.
This IEM is Special at $150 you need to own this IEM in your collection- you deserve it!
And Kotori earned it!
1.5yrs in the development and making was worth it. 🩵
What a shit show Duece Order #115
Nowhere to be seen.
Edit: One day delivery for my Deuce Comparison IEM $36 IEM the Aoshida E20
$36 vs $338
I know graphs aren’t everything, but from the graph you have of this set… I still need help understanding how with no other spikes or elevated areas to balance it out, the extremely elevated 4-5k region… how does that not sound extreme or harsh or out of whack with the rest of the FR?
Can’t explain it but just sounds right?
Some don’t sound like they graph like the Plunge Audio IEM’s
It sounds more natural than project m for me and I put that in the video.It’s just maybe where my ears need that energy to make them sound correct
Got it.
I’m finding there are quite a few areas where I need less than most folks for it to sound right (I don’t need the extra 8k emphasis a lot of bassy or flat sets add “back in” and prefer to go without it).
I’ve been listening to the Explorer a lot lately probably mainly because it dodges a lot of sensitive areas in pinna gain and higher.
But to be honest 2k-6k for me is something where I have to hear the set and compare, I’m running out of patience in my ability to make predictions about that area from graphs because the rest of the tuning plays too large a part of whether I’ll be sensitive or not.
Generally speaking a steep 1-2k rise is a no-go for me, that’s actually what adds in a sibilance to consonants for me (I would always have expected a higher frequency area would do that but it seems to be a consistent link(
Typically for me though 4-5k can be fine if it has enough to balance it out in the low FR. Penon Serial walks a fine line with this but pulls it off for me to splendid effect, if the bass were lower I would find the vocal area too much.
Without hearing it I’d still expect this large peak with no balancing-out lower down would hurt me.
The Unity stays much flatter, which is why its bass sounds much more ample than it would if there were any later elevation.
Anyway thanks for the impressions.