I get it, but I also do about 90% of my listening during the workday in my home office, so it doesn’t really matter. While discussing the Tanchjim Hana 2021, I joked that if they sounded good enough, I would wear something in schoolgirl pink. I am waiting for some more reviews, but it might be time to finally test that theory.
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the dioko made the 100 dollar price range even more difficult to chose in… especially with tip rolling and figuring the exact sound you’d prefer (more bass than the chu with spring chips but still doesn’t feel like there is little high end like the mele… dioko fits that i THINK)
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I was initially not expecting much, but that graph seems promising. That bass seems legit, and I like that it looks controlled at 5k, plus the pinna gain seems good. That 8k peak should give it tons of stage, the only issue will be how spicy vs sparkly it sounds as a result ( Timeless had a peak there too ).
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I was not either but early results sound promising
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The Penon Vortex is really good… the best I’ve heard, yet. They come with ePro Horn tips (among others), and the smallest ones actually fit my dinky ears. Had not tried them before, and they’re really good, too.
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I think that’s great but I will wait but thanks so much. What did you compare them to ?
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Really enjoyed those ePro horn tips on my Andromeda
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How likely is it that the Dioko is going to give the current crop of top planars a run for their money? Is that just crazy talk?
And purple? Really? Good thing much of this hobby is spent in solitude. 
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That graph looks very worrying. Uneven dynamic frequency dip past 2K with channel imbalance and sudden 8K peak. This will be a wait-for-review kinda IEM for sure…
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i wonder if the dioko will accidenally bite into crins dusk revenue… since now they can get dusk level technicalities for a third of the price
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Dusk probably not selling as much because there are lots of options nowadays. On the other hand, $99 planar iem with a great tuning will sell like crazy.
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Regular timeless has similar issues too.
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Thats a pretty typical planar issues
Even full sized planar drivers have that sort of “unevenness” and minor channel imbalances. It shouldn’t be too much of an issue since it doesn’t affect a wide range of frequencies and the dip isn’t too severe, so it doesn’t worry me too much. Though the spike may be an issue to people who are treble sensitive.
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Which is still an issue that you should lookout for.
Again, just because something else have the same issue doesn’t make it okay or justify the current problem. Those kind of unevenness (+planar timbre) is the main reason why I’m super cautious about purchasing any planars. The only one that is well-implemented I have tried are the LCD-X.
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sorry i should’ve clarified a bit more, what i mean is that while they do look like that on a graph, they are not severe enough to be a major audible issue, the dips and peaks in the dioko’s case (and a lot of other planars) in the treble arent that big, but if they were they would be a major issue. Even audeze planars tend to also have those same “issues” when seen on a graph. Planar timbre although is a very big issue that i too have an issue with on planars.
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Also speaking about the whole wonky planar FR thing, it is necessairy to remember about the effect that our ears (or to be overly specific- brains) impose on high frequencies. The higher the frequencies, the more our ears kind of smooth that region. In other words, our ears in high frequencies hear a little bit as if someone applied higher smoothing in FR graph tool. Amir from Audio Science Review did a nice explanation of this effectin one of his videos.
From 4:00 mark in this video
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I just got a pair of Blessing 2s coming from the Starfield and honestly, I really can’t tell that much of a difference. I’ve tested 5 different IEMs and the only ones I don’t like the Starfields more than are the Mangird teas, they’re the only ones where the music and the way it was presented actually sounded different and more enjoyable to me
I’m kinda glad i’m not finding differences in every nook and cranny of every iem because I think it’s helped me make the decision that i’m going to get the teas and they will be my endgame, I don’t see the point in continuing to spend so much money on shit that I don’t even notice
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Thanks for sharing your journey. As a recent member of the Tea cult, the Tea is top-tier in terms of musical enjoyment. Congrats in advance on your new set of Teas!
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For the time being, tea is my most expensive set. I heard the difference between tea/tea2 and my under-200$-sets. But I still find hard to represent How Much the difference of feeling can be between price brackets.
Tea is really special. Even tea2, that has a more traditional FR, doesn’t sound that different from the other Harman sets
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