I purchased my OH10s from @WaveTheory - thanks mate! - and they arrived today. I threw on some new Comply foam tips I had - Comply has worked well for me before, and I can try some tip rolling later if I feel like it - and I was good to go. Yes, these IEMs are heavy, but they are comfortable. I had been warned that the stock cable sucks, but I must have low standards because I don’t have any complaints about it.
My first listening was straight out of my Cayin N3 DAP’s headphone jack with a few sonatas for strings and keyboard from 1682 by Johann Rosenmüller, at 96 kHz/24 bit. These sounded very, very good. Much better than I was expecting.
Next I plugged them into my Audio-gd R-28 DAC/amp and listened to a couple of tracks from “Buckjump” by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Wow. I mean, DAMN. These earphones are groin-grabbingly good. The percussion section came to life - it sounded like there were 10 people just going nuts with shakers, toms, cymbals, etc. The bass drum sounded liked it was 7 ft in diameter (that’s about grande size in metric) - freaking HUGE. I mean, BOOM! What a thrill! I swapped out the OH10s for my LCD-2Cs to compare, and I’m ashamed to admit I was a little disappointed. I want to say the Audeze’s SQ was better overall, but they just weren’t as fun. Also to be fair, the 2Cs don’t really play well with that particular amp.
So after a short session I can say that I look forward to regular use of the OH10s. They are versatile (baroque strings and New Orleans jazz both sounded great), and they scale well (going from a budget DAP to an R-2R DAC/SS amp was a noticeable step up). They might even end up replacing my Starfields, but I will be spending some quality time comparing the two different sets of IEMs.