@Kenyon Bringing this to another thread for reasons…
My reviews on head fi have got basically nothing. All of them save two were bought with my own money. A reviewer? I’m just an idiot spending money on products. I spend my own money on the Butasurr it wasn’t a sample.
I got my Butasurr in late August and wrote the review soon after. I was having fun in the hobby of writing reviews there. Yes, I wanted to support American Spirit, and I am not sure how much of this is HBB pissed about his set being poor, because I bought this set as he made the comparison that it is close to Supernova and possibly a top 10 set. My Supernova was on backorder as they are all and it finally came in. It’s night and day in comparison. Supernova is a good set, but not perfect either, but it is better than Butasurr.
My only point was that I sold my set due to not liking it before all the drama happened. Heck I was done with quickly. As I have other iems in my ears and have had more time I’ve learned a few things. To be honest, the more I learn about the hobby the more that I think a great deal of it is BS, shilling, and crap. I put my Butasurr up for sale in early October around the 1st. It took almost three weeks to sell. I found much cheaper iems that sound better. But I still hold by that Butasurr is a nice sounding iem, but not worth 520 or 600.
Certain people will buy a set if it has the right presentation and backstory. Part of the reason that I don’t quit the hobby is so that I can give honest takes of products. I’ve been pretty damn harsh in my last few reviews and careful how I say things and what I do say.
Is it easy reviewing products that nobody has done especially when you don’t have a ton of iems to compare them to? No, it’s very difficult. We do what we can. I was wow’ed with my first listening impression of this iem. Will I tank that on the chin as someone newer to the hobby, and learn from this? Yes, I definitely will. Thanks for the post and the thoughts. I’m not perfect, and I still think the Butasurr is a good iem, but I think maybe no iem is worth more than 300 or so. The level of branding involved in iems past a certain point makes no real sense.