Lol about the tips…. I was just simply shocked stock tips sealed at all. They usually never do for me.
I still wouldn’t say they are good or great for comfort, just that they worked.
Most tips seal for me, but a lot of OEM one start to bug me after some time. The silicone ones were nice, not quite type E for me but good. What surprised me is that I tried the foams and I didn’t hate them immediately. I dislike almost all foams (OEM and aftermarket ones). I am still probably never going to use the foams again, but I was still pleasantly surprised.
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I can make this comparison now between Moondrop’s…
Blessing 2
Blessing 2 Dusk
Variations
The Blessing 2 is one of the best all around neutral IEMs you can purchase today period.
The Dusk takes all the Blessing 2 hardware and re-tunes it to sound more enjoyable with a large sub bass emphasis and overall smoother treble.
The Variations is made up of what I’m guessing to be the proper driver configuration to actually pull off the Dusk’s tuning. It sounds almost identical to the Dusk with slightly better slam and better technicalities and is more efficient.
Not sure if it was this thread or not but I was being asked a lot of questions regarding the Dusk and I couldn’t speak from experience because I did not own it. I can now say easily that there is VERY little difference between the Variations and the Dusk. Anyone wanting to save some money but wanting to hear the enjoyable tuning of the Variations can rest assured, they aren’t missing out on much what so ever by skipping the Variations and just going with the Dusk. They sound very similar, but I will not deny that the Variations has a touch better slam than the Dusk and the stage felt more spacious. Not $200.00 better though.
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Moondrop seems to do this quite a bit. This is pretty much how I feel about the Starfield and Aria. They are really close and honestly you can save money buying the Aria and not lose much at all.
Plus I think the Aria looks much nicer.
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Agreed. I think the Aria might even be superior from everything I’ve heard(I don’t have one so I can’t say personally).
I’m guessing that Crin taught Moondrop how to tune an IEM using the Blessing 2 hardware and then Moondrop designed a new IEM from the ground up with Crin’s tuning in mind.
All three are great IEMs. I love them all. Not much need for the Dusk now or the Variations. How ever you want to look at it. Same thing with the KXXS, KXXX, Starfield and now Aria. Pretty much, all the same harman-tuned IEM with highly varying price points with hardly any perceived difference in tonality.
The advantage the Aria had was time. I kinda alway put down how close/maybe better it is to the Starfield as being the advantage of the most up to date driver that Moondrop has.
My guess is that down the line Moondrop might just eventually release another tribrid with a similar configuration to the Variations at a slightly lower price since all the growing pains/costs of a new tech will be gone.
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Nothing wrong with that. That’s what progress is all about. Better product at lower and lower cost.
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I have the mangird tea, do you think it would be redundant to buy the blessing 2 dusk? or buy something really better like some tribid.
I heard they both have good subbass.
The Mangird Tea could be anyone’s endgame. I prefer it to the Blessing 2 because of its sub bass emphasis and smoother/more relaxed treble.
I’d be looking at a tribrid if I were you. I’d completely skip the B2 & Dusk if you already own the Mangird Tea.
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A nice one:
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Just a heads up for anyone considering buying the variations, the faceplate came loose and the 2 pin plug started falling out of my right earpiece after only a month. The warranty card that comes in the package says they do not cover “deformed shells” or “damaged plugs” so looks like I may be fucked. $520 down the drain. For what it’s worth they sound amazing, probably my favorite out of any I’ve tried before they fell apart lol
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Is the faceplate completely off? I’d try a little superglue. Where are you storing it? I have the Blessing 2, Blessing 2 Dusk and the Variations and I have no issues with any of them, but all my IEMs are stored in a controlled environment. The 2 pin connectors were extremely tight just like any other 2 pin IEM I’ve owned. Maybe even tighter. I am using after market cables on all of my Moondrops.
Sorry to hear you’re having issues. If you purchased from Apos, they usually have warranty’s past the manufacturer. Might be worth a shot asking them if they could help if you can’t resolve the issues yourself?
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The face plate was starting to come off a little in normal use. The 2 pin connector popped out and the faceplate came almost all the way off when I tried to unplug the stock cable to switch to a kbear cable. I actually got the connector back in place and the faceplate back on but the connector is really loose and wiggles around like crazy. Probably just gonna get worse now.
I had blessing 2 og, dusk, and s8 and didn’t have problems with any of them, switched cables on all of them too. I store the variations in the case they came with. Just bad luck I guess. I bought them from headphones.com, and their policy seems to be “contact the manufacturer” while moondrop’s policy says “contact the seller” lol. Guess I’m just waiting to contact both on Monday now
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I can take the face plate off pretty easily now and i think I can tell what went wrong. There’s a faint rectangle on the back of the faceplate right above the connector, and I think there must have been some kind of glue/adhesive holding both in place. And maybe there wasn’t enough. Think I might try to glue it myself, but I don’t know what type of superglue to use and I don’t want to fuck it up even worse lol. It still sounds fine though
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I thought you meant just the 2 pin connector being loose and the cable sliding out of it. Not the entire internal 2 pin housing inside the IEM coming loose. I’d return that immediately. Sorry bro.
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I ended up using just a tiny bit of super glue to secure the 2 pin housing and the faceplate and that did the trick. I’ll stop hogging the thread now haha
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If anyone is a fan of classic rock/general 60’s 70’s music Here are a few tracks I found amazing with the Variations
The vocals on this track are just incredible with the Variations
Another classic that is just amazing with the Variation’s tuning
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That intro was super nice 🤌
My blessings 2D faceplate broke off and i thought they might have learned and wanted to upgrade because i really like the sound. But won’t do it after i see they still can’t build IEMs
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