Comments like this make me super excited to get my hands on these!!! Cant wait!! Ill be patient through chinese new year and the 1-2 months they take to build and ship, but Iām seriously on pins and needles. Cant wait to try them on various DACs and devices, and I will probably play a game on them here and there.
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Mike dropping the MIC
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Precog wasnāt that impressed with DM 5/10 
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Pfft what does he know anyways
My same words exactly. DM is insane.
To all the technoheads that love a good clean bass with insane texture, this it it. This is the king DD. You donāt keep this quiet and enjoy some whispering, you crank it up and you party.
Iām going a massive trip nostalgia atm with DM and this:
Itās like im back into a techno club, itās 8 A.M., drunk, cig on my hand, and nothing else mattered. I miss colege days.
To the guys that want the more bass boosted, very warm, 40ĀŗC underground party, Xenns UP is more up your alley.
Music is all that matters, and when it takes you a nostalgia journey, itās priceless. Even if you enjoying a cheap set.
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The Dark Magician has in a matter of weeks gone from unknown to the new "King of the Hill " in the single DD world.
The DM is an earphone that I believe gets its inspiration, from what has been the reference under 300usd for a single DD.
Iām talking of course of the Tanchjim Oxygen, that over the last 3 years ,has carved its place well in what a properly tuned DD should be.
Much like the Blon 03 that shook the budget IEM market, the Oxygen is an astonishingly good IEM, with a tonality, timbre and mid reproduction that is borderline flawless when you consider itās all done with one driver.
The DM had taken that base and Improved upon it.
Firstly the bass is mainly mid-bass oriented and just slightly above neutral. And as one might imagine with this type of tuning, the transition into the mids is exemplary, bringing texture and bass detail to another level.
Itās not without its flaws, and I would have liked a little more quantity, just enough to bring a little extra weight to some musical genres and render male voices at least to me as perfect as the Oxygen does it.
Next the midrange of the DM is its strength to my ears.
Itās what caught my attention when I first listened to it, itās open, huge, 3D sounding, and full of detail.
This is the type of midrange you can listen to for hours without fatigue.
Finally the treble response of the DM I s again bordering perfection, letās not forget this is a single DD, but the fact itās around 4db lower than the Oxygen , makes it for some people resolve the problem of the extra brightness, basically thereās no sibilance, energy levels are more coherent, so although there are occasions where you might want to falter it, cymbals sometimes are a little fuzzy, I remind you all this is a single DD.
With regards to technicalities the DM is very goodā¦detailā¦ ultimate detail if again we remember itās a single DD, soundstage excellent, Imaging and layering impressive , detail retrival crazy good.
Overall if what you want is a super capable single DD with regards to texture, details, female vocal reproduction, the DM ticks the right boxes, if you want something with a warmer tonality, with that extra bass weight that makes things sound not as clinical then the Oxygen is still the one.
There is one more suprise " contender ", the Moondrop Kato, yes you read that right, the Kato is capable of bringing together some of the positive characteristics of the Oxygen and DM and offer it at a price of around 200usd, which brings me to the cost of the DM.
At 600usd it finds some very stiff competition , the likes of SHUOER EJ07m, AĆ¼R Audio Neon, Softears RSV and a few others that can I my opinion bring to the table the same as the DM and also give a sense of better value for money.
Of course that is relativeā¦one pays what one beliefs something is worth and for me the DM should be a earphone of 350 to 400 USD at most.
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Hi Tony, nice to meet you on hifiguides. Watching your video now. The DM driver model seems to be the same as the one in the O2, Hana 2021 and the Olina. Interesting.
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Glad you liked it 
EJ next? 
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E eu pensei que DM era um pouco caro, mas provavelmente vale a pena! Muito boa revisĆ£o. 
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Thatās actually well translated to brazilian portuguese 
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I donāt make any difference between Brazilian Portuguese and your Portuguese ā¦ 
Tony sounds more South African/New Zealandāish than Portuguese?
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And now in English - from the review I learned that for DM you pay for tuning, which is very important, because bad tuning is bad sound, regardless of timbre.
Heās portuguese and he lives close to me. His voice is not so deep IRL, must be his mic
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Itās the same, minus couple words. Just syntax differences, etc. Both can understand each other 100%, just some slang that changes 
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Not gonna lie, this set has me very curious by how it graphs, only hurdle is the price.
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I wait on pins and needles to get my hands on the one I ordered a couple weeks ago.
I am patient I am patient I am patient =P
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Just received shipping confirmation. My Dark Magician will be here in 10 days!!! Wooot
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