IEM discussion thread (Part 2)

All done buddy :+1:

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Can always count on you! Very much appreciated.
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Someone here bought the CCA Trio? People is talking good about them…



All due respect to KZ and CCA, it just looks like yet another one of their ‘demo tunings’ they literally copy and paste on to 4 other sets, releasing them 1 by 1 every week… I can’t think of another brand that bores me more than KZ.

The Castor has such a similar tuning profile it’s insane.

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I like CCA but I’m 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 don’t fully but you get the gist lol

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ehm, you do know that CCA IS KZ?

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Yeah that’s what I meant lol, that I like what CCA’s been doing but knowing they’re basically just KZ in disguise is why I don’t buy anything from both

edit: scared me for a second, thought you were gonna tell me they weren’t related lol

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This is me. I feel I’d be too biased to give a fair review or even like them. Life is short don’t 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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It’s 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 Monkey’s That’s where you’re wrong though so I got a good reminder

For a good while I was really like “this is dark to people?” I can’t even turn it up high for certain songs man I thought my ears were broken lol

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That’s a great point, I’ll admit it. The trio is also rocking 3 DDs rather than the single (?) DD in the Castor so there’s some value there I suppose. I have not and most likely will not get my ears on either, so for all I know they’re both great IEMs, but I just can’t bring my self to support KZ after all the BS…

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The 5 khz dip still baffles me on Meteor. It makes the whole timbre just darkish… I don’t know any other IEM with that hole in the presence region :face_with_peeking_eye:

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I so get that one. I hadn’t bought one since Crin’s KZ set, until the PR2. I love my PR2, but they stealth retuned it, so I can’t 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. It’s a cool concept, but I get that it doesn’t 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 they’re 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 didn’t 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, what’s 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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