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Thats where I bought from too. Wait for the sale though, it starts tomorrow and if you have coupons you can reduce the price even more.

These dont disappoint, very balanced and smooth while retaining detail and not being too shouty. Overall no complaints and it will be my go to for fun and is supplanting my oh10 in collection, for comfort reasons as these seem to wear a bit better due to weight. The oh10 has more treble energy which makes it more shouty and fatigueing, but the bass is very close with I feel the oh10 edging it out, but for quantity, for quality both are basically indistinguishable to me. Perhaps there is something to the well tuned bery bass because the fh3 sound a touch snappier/clearer, so that could give it an edge like Chris said with the mids.

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Glad youā€™re enjoying them. The difference in that ā€œsnappierā€ bass is probably the Beryllium DD the FH3 has.

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Fingers crossed on the Thor Mjolnir :crossed_fingers:. That may be a perfect upgrade for you!

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Just me personally, I like the sound of the YBF bass more than that of the FH3, but there is quite a bit more of it, so tuning is different. In converse, I think the quality (speed, texture, resolution) of the bass in the FH3 is superior to that of the L3, but I like the amount of bass/tuning on the L3 more, as itā€™s more balanced to me as an all-purpose IEM.

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Guess that just shows how bad the qc of the urbanfun and also the L3 isā€¦

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But IEMusicā€™s Urbanfun is the white box version while yours I assume is the previous one that came in a black lottery box? Both have a different tuning confirmed by head-fiers.

Iā€™d imagine itā€™s such a nightmare having a model with different tuning under the same name for a reviewer and thatā€™s why I skipped this model. You never know what version people are talking to and thatā€™s a horrible feeling.

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Exactly, thats why it is very hard to recommend the urbanfun.

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ā€œLife is like a box of YBFs.ā€

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Agreed. Horrible QC makes a product impossible to recommend.

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Ha ha! Nice one. So true.

We canā€™t even go by the white/black box to tell if youā€™ve got the beryllium driver in your Urbanfun or not. Itā€™s been reported they are still shipping new product with the black boxes.

Disgraceful, no one is going to trust them anymore so they are only shooting themselves in the footā€¦

Which is exactly the primary reason why, I donā€™t buy from Linsoul any more. You canā€™t trust what you get and that is a serious problem.
Is it bad QC?
Are they sending different units to reviewers?

I donā€™t know, but Iā€™m done with them.

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Itā€™s more the way they handle their customer service for me.

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And that is the secondary reason. Their customer service is at best, non-existing.
With their QC in mind, it is risky to buy from them, as you canā€™t get in contact with them.

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Many people share your sentiments. Communication with them is very ā€œchallengingā€ at best. Itā€™s a shame, b/c Iā€™d really like a lot of the ThieAudio products if there were none of those caveats you mentioned. Maybe Iā€™ll just save up for the MEST.

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my fh3 arrived todayā€¦ and as promised im going to give you an impression as we have the same iem and gearsā€¦ all i can say is, fh3 is so much better than the zsx and bl03ā€¦ also my 2.5mm balanced cable arrived in time, so i quickly changed the fh3 cableā€¦ this is my first time to use the balanced output, atm i am very satisfied with my setupā€¦ sorry i cant describe it in detailsā€¦ but everything sounded so good on thisā€¦
i am also very happy with the fit, very comfy and the stock balanced tips is not itchyā€¦ and i aswell dont like the stiffness of the stock cableā€¦

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Enjoy!! It is an excellent sounding IEM, and as you said, is a whole lot more capable than the BL03 and ZSX.

thank you very muchā€¦ cant take it off my earsā€¦ im very happy with the purchaseā€¦

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