All done buddy 
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Can always count on you! Very much appreciated.
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All due respect to KZ and CCA, it just looks like yet another one of their âdemo tuningsâ they literally copy and paste on to 4 other sets, releasing them 1 by 1 every week⌠I canât think of another brand that bores me more than KZ.
The Castor has such a similar tuning profile itâs insane.
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I like CCA but Iâm too biased against KZ to buy their stuff
I forever owe em though since experiencing the sibilant fist of the PR2 forced me to try and understand frequency graphs
I still donât fully but you get the gist lol
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ehm, you do know that CCA IS KZ?
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Yeah thatâs what I meant lol, that I like what CCAâs been doing but knowing theyâre basically just KZ in disguise is why I donât buy anything from both
edit: scared me for a second, thought you were gonna tell me they werenât related lol
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This is me. I feel Iâd be too biased to give a fair review or even like them. Life is short donât buy kz or any iem you might be biased against.
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okay sir. Regards
Agreed, but the Castor might be the best turned budget set right now. I only got the Castor bass because @ToneDeafMonk said so many good things, and at that price the risk was low. The Trio is closer to $40, not $16.
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Itâs too late for me to be nice to them but saying that makes me feel like jerk
All I got was sibilance hell on Arctic Monkeyâs Thatâs where youâre wrong though so I got a good reminder
For a good while I was really like âthis is dark to people?â I canât even turn it up high for certain songs man I thought my ears were broken lol
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Thatâs a great point, Iâll admit it. The trio is also rocking 3 DDs rather than the single (?) DD in the Castor so thereâs some value there I suppose. I have not and most likely will not get my ears on either, so for all I know theyâre both great IEMs, but I just canât bring my self to support KZ after all the BSâŚ
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The 5 khz dip still baffles me on Meteor. It makes the whole timbre just darkish⌠I donât know any other IEM with that hole in the presence region 
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I so get that one. I hadnât bought one since Crinâs KZ set, until the PR2. I love my PR2, but they stealth retuned it, so I canât recommend it now, which is annoying.
The only 3DD I have is the Artti R1, which I love, and it is probably my favorite under $100 right now. That said I think the Beryllium coated driver is the real winner on that set. I am far from alone in noticing a high correlation between good base and beryllium for the low end.
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I see it on a lot of other IEMs, but usually not so pronounced; the only other one that comes to mind with such a dip in that area (without scooping the treble overall) is the OG Mangird Tea.
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IMO the cool thing about the Meteor though is the boost in the later treble which balances out the dip at 5k, all my opinion though. Itâs a cool concept, but I get that it doesnât work for some folks. I saw that some people straight up trash on the Meteors which I get, because I did at first too. Not sure what happened but my ears welcomed them with open arms the 2nd go around.
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Definitely not the only one, John, the 1 IEM that has left a long lasting impression on me with a berry driver was the XENNS UP, that bass was so snappy and punchy, I can see why theyâre so sought after.
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I supported them since I thought they were trying to fix their brand image and HBB I trust after buying the Cadenza but unlike you I got the PR2 with crazy sibilance and high heavens treble and I listened to it for 6 months straight since I didnât know any better at the time.
It took a while before I just went, why do I always gotta skip songs with a lotta of SsSsses on em, whatâs going on lol
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Yep Xenns Up and Kiwi Cadenza Simp here
They just slam so much differently to my ears and I love em to death for it
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