Yep, good shout 
. Is this just on AE or all sellers?
Luckily I havenāt had any bad experiences on AE - DD , DUNU , XINHS (obvs) , BrightAudio , FAAEAL all good.
well, I have this in my server.
List of (some) trusted stores (* marked stores are on AliExpress and excluding official brand stores):
AK Audio ()
Apos Audio
BrightAudio ( )
CEMA Electro acousti ()
Dudo Audio ( )
ghentaudio
HifiGo
Huo Niu/guang ()
JieTu Audio ( )
Keephifi
Linsoul/DD-Audio ()
LuckLZ ( )
MissAudio ()
MusicTeck
NiceHCK Audio/official ( )
NSC Audio ()
ShenzhenAudio
SoundLink Official ( )
Trig Rain ()
Wooeasy Earphones ( )
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Screw me, bought those MESTsā¦ Would need to wait until the beginning of May probably to listen to them, but I know I would end up in this place sooner than later, so why not. Freaking IEMs more expensive than my phone I am an idiotā¦ 
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Thanks for the list! By server, you donāt mean your googlesheet right? I just looked and couldnāt find the list.
Iāll start compiling a list and share when ready
Ohhh dude, NICE! Iāve heard theyāre a great set for sure. Enjoy! Let us know how you fancy them once they come in 
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Happy for you! Welcome to the life of being a MESTHead!
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Ok preliminary list here. Feedback welcome! Maybe veterans can share their lists with me (either as a reply or DM) @hawaiibadboy @nymz @Tonytex_Teixeira. Thanks @Rikudou_Goku for sharing his list already!
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Also, I must say ā¦ THANK YOU for buying them because I was looking at the listing pretty much every day 
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Haha, I was honestly thinking of you while discussing with tge seller partially hoping and partially not hoping that you would buy it first. He told me that there were 2 people negotiating at the same time, so I needed very quickly to convince my CEO to smuggle it over the boarder for me when he would be coming back from US in couple of weeks 
āVAORLO Factory Storeā on AliExpress are the ones who exclusively showed pictures of the original/odler QKZ VK4 when I ordered, but were actually selling the newer rubbish version. Their use of the word āoriginalā in the description only further confused things.
They accepted zero fault, showed no regrets, AliExpess sided with them, and $0 was refunded. Very thankful they only sent the wrong $10ish item and that it wasnāt a bigger purchase.
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Sorry to hear about your troubles :ā( iāve added them to the list!
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Dunno if anyone here is on Oluvās Patreon, but he just released the output of his latest tuning project (using the earfun free pro 2). I think the result is remarkable. Safe to say I would recommend signing up and giving it a go. I guess you can quit after a month either way.
Dannggg this looks sexy. And itās reasonably priced too - 319 USD. For 1 + 3, with 2 Sonion and 1 Knowles. Anyone pulled the trigger yet?
I wonder if the tuning switches will work as well as they do in the Canon!
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Ahhhh haha thatās amazing, man. I am glad I was able to be somewhat a part of someoneās buying journey. I really hope you enjoy them, man. I also really hope they fit in your ears well. I was really really lucky with the Mons and their huge shells. I know they made the MEST MKII smaller than the MKI.
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The tech involved suggests a nice lush sound. Itāll probably be a few weeks before any trustworthy reviews come out, at the least. Nice design and price.
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Another night of the Serial. The Canon will supposedly come tomorrow, though I may not get listening in until later. All I can say is socks will have to be blown far afield to outdo what Iām already enjoying.
Im daunted by how many hours of listening will be needed to evaluate the different switch configs.
The Serial is perfect for what Iāve been listening to most, gritty/chaotic psychedelic rock.
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Wanted to throw this in here just in case someone was looking for a replacement cable.
The Kinera Leyding is absolutely fantastic. Thin, light weight, feels great, does not tangle and has swappable terminations. Itās slightly pricey at $70 but I have to say, itās improved the fit of the Mon MKII for me tremendously. Sounds great too.
Iām pretty sure Iāll be passing the Canons on. Of course Iāll give them longer first.
Itās certainly not because theyāre bad in anything they do, purely preference. Their midrange is pretty much at my intimacy/saturation limit (along with Hekili and OH300). Itās a midrange I imagine scores of people will absolutely love. My bass preference goes to the Serial. The Canon is almost certainly better for treble, itās just not something I notice anywhere near as much as mids and bass.
I donāt know how I arrived here, there was a time that I loved the SSR and NM2+, notable for their over-elevated upper mids and relative bass shyness (although the NM2+ has gorgeous texture and decent sub-bass extension). I just really donāt want vocals/mid-range guitar etc that close to my eardrum in the mix any more.
Technically there are 8 settings I need to test out before I decide, but in reality far fewer.
100 and 110 = bass boosted, necessary for my preferences.
000 and 111 = all level, worth a decent try especially as itās the stock target presumably
011, 010, 001 = not keen to hear the mix with less bass
101 = not keen for the treble energy in a v-shape EDIT: Reconsidering this one, itās a way to push mids back a little. Good first impressions.
There are a lot of dead ringers for the Aladdin in various tones. When my Aladdin set return from Hong Kong I donāt know if Iāll still have the Canon to compare directly. But I feel like I might prefer the Aladdin at this minute tbh, for tuning preference.
Timbre: Serial >> Canon > Aladdin
Somethingās just different about the Serialās bass delivery, I havenāt been enjoying the bass is other sets nearly as much. Itās not a quantity issue. I say this recognizing that the bass on the Canon is good in both quality and quality.
Fit is great, I wish the Serial took a slight more tapered shape too.
Stock cableās very nice, much like what comes with Linsoulās tribrids just sans adapters.
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Thanks for the in depth analysis! How would you compare the canon to the hekili?
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