I got my Arias a while back, and they worked perfectly fine, but recently my left IEM has a way of slowly lowering the value until you can’t hear a thing, I would have to leave it our of my ear for around 30 minutes to get most of the value back again.
I currently live in the Philippines and it’s humid, but even with aircon on it happens. I have heard that there is some BA’s that have a overheating problem, which causes them to go down in volume.
So my question is, what would cause this in my left IEM only?
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Is it the metal housing causing the drivers to act up, is that’s the case, why does not left not have this problem.
I tried other cables, I did the stock cable, but daily the JCALLY JC08P 8-Core straight pin.
I use a zan dac for amp / dac.
I changed filters, checked and cleared the vents…etc.
If the connector was faulty as in the image, you would either have no sound at all or a lot of crackling if the contact was loose.
I don’t know what could cause a gradual lowering in volume… sounds like a faulty capacitor to me, but afaik, there aren’t capacitors in headphones.
Could it be the source? Can you try the aria with a different source (smartphone for example)? Alternatively you could try your current source with a different headphone.
EDIT: This doesn’t relate to the question, but… WTF… i just realize now, that the cables in the aria’s picture aren’t isolated? I hope they are coated at least, otherwise it’s basically asking for a shortcircuit, if this is how every aria looks inside.
I have replaced the stock filters as well, since like you mentioned they come with a lot of them in the box. I replaced them to see if there is a difference.
I wonder if it’s to do with the moisture. It only happens after a couple hours of use, and letting it sit for 30 minutes or so resets the volume. So i really think it’s to do with something like moisture, it makes logical sense.
I wonder if other tips would make a difference, I’m currently using spinfits. They seal really well.
Any update? I started getting the moisture problem only after a few weeks, and 2 months later, since a day, my left ear piece has no sound at all, did the usual trick removing the filters, tried to remove moisture, didn’t work no sound at all, Its probably dead tho I am not 100 percent sure. I wonder if repair is possible at all, sending these back to china would be a big pain.
Update, the left pair is indeed dead. I will just keep it in case I find someone that repairs iems, for the time being I’ll just get a replacement for the left pair.
That type of issue must have been a pain in the ass in the long run and I prefer losing my paint on my Arias than losing a sound on a piece. That is the problem with Moondrop when it comes to their QCs and that’s their fatal flaw that simmered down my positive reception towards them, nowadays I am getting IEMs that are not from Moondrop, unless they straighten up and fix their flaws.
