With IEMs you just get an IEM and maybe a source and you are set.
With speakers at some point you have to build a room around the speakers (positioning and room treatment), which is orders of magnitutes more complicated and expensive.
A lot of speaker setups in the 10k$ range sound arguably worse than a headphone/iem setup in the 1k$ range.
Yes it takes time knowledge and money you need the right dwelling with the right room. I say you could get very good sound for 10 k depending on room. Yes there are systems that are 100 k and more. I agree spending say 1500 on an Iem and a good source and amplification cheaper. Speakers can recreate the stage infinitely better if you have room
It depends on the recording. This with speakers sounds incredibly terrible when compared to a 5$ earbud:
For music, I found this to be a good example, where stage is better on IEMs then on speakers:
Theoretically you can get a better stage with headphones more realistically than with speakers. That is cause you don’t have to consider crosstalk/room acoustics and have more control over what reaches the separate eardrums. You would need to measure your HRTF for the perfect stage and have a proper recording setup. That being said, you are right, that in most cases speakers achieve a better stage practically speaking, since no one knows their HRTF and examples like the one I posted are rare to come by.
@nymz do you find the stock tea cable microphonic? I’ve been using them a lot for gaming and am starting to get annoyed with being able to hear everything the cable is rubbing on. Do you have any recs for replacements? I know that xinhs makes quality stuff and are decently priced.
I don’t like stock teas cable. The one that came with my OG sounds different… Like it’s phased or borked.
Xinhs gets an easy rec, yes 
Hmm… Sigh. Guess I gotta bring Ricardo and not nymz for this post 
In my line of work, or on most other areas, when you stick your neck out, it can go both ways. But you are pushed to try to, to risk it for the biscuit.
Brands and IEMs are exactly that. When you put something out there, you are sticking your neck out. Reviewers might like it, consumers might like it - or it might go the other way around. There’s no second chance for a first impression, so your set has to be the one speaking, not your marketing or vague words.
Reviewers are humans and have opionions and transparency, which also makes them vulnerable to manipulation, known as shilling around the block. Those who don’t shill, get the heat sometimes, but that’s the game.
I don’t shill, and that’s my first rule for a review. Other than that, I wanna try anything I can get hold of. I paid for most of the stuff I’ve heard to date with my own money, so there’s s that. I try to help and I carry forward. I’ve sent sets to other people inside EU on a leap of faith so other people can try them and get opinions out.
Most reviewers, like me, do reviews for the passion and to help other people make informative decisions. Who knows how many sleepless hours go into a review, just like they go on a set assembly. It’s all for the love of music.
Preferences take a toll, even if some characteristics of a set can be universal, it always comes down to preferences and libraries. You can’t expect everyone to like your product just like not every reader will agree with you. That’s why there’s so much of us out there.
So, you might be asking, why am I bringing this out? Well, one of my last takes got some gossip behind my back to other reviewers.
Now, to the person himself, Nicholas, face of the brand AüR: you try to throw shade behind my back, you get public shame. You got a free take and now you get a free burn.
You product is trying to compete on a predatory bracket, without matching it, and the first thing you tell me about it’s the price will increase to 800 usd? Without a balanced tuning, proper techs or anything out of the box? I don’t care what you say, the sound has to match the price.
I won’t even descend to your level and show prints of you talking about me or other brands, sellers or just being straight out rude.
Your claims are over the moon, especially when you say your iems shit on other that cost two or four times the price. It’s all fun and games until it isn’t.
I didn’t even destroyed your set, and I could of, but out of respect to the loaner and your passion to the hobby deserved more, until now. The reason I even asked to listen to it was because two other soon to be customers asked for it. You dont agree with my review? Sure, but prove me I’m wrong on the stamps I posted. Let the music prove it, and that’s why it’s there. It’s not my fault people got scared and backed off on orders.
You could have been professional and we kept going our ways, as I even told you I was interested in your other sets. Now I’m not and you’re blacklisted.
When you promise the sun, you might get a burn.
Ps: when you say now you making a tribid to be Tea killer… First as already been done. Second Teas arent the best IEM in the world. Third, you won’t make it, Abel will 
Guess which IEM brand I’m never touching 
It’s funny when brands just want positive reviews…
Aür or to be exact, Nicholas, just made a huge damage to his brand reputation. He could just kept quiet, accept criticism and move forward.
Guy is not very business savvy hun?
Welp. Brands who don’t respect reviewer integrity get no respect from me in return. When I (inevitably) move into this price segment, I’ll make sure to remember not to cover AuR products.
Talk about self destructing. 
Oh my God! A scandal is brewing. The AuR man is nervous because he works hard to produce a product. Buuut … some people overestimate their own abilities and qualities. Small manufacturers do not use state-of-the-art IEMs, which is why there are many expectations for a product that has mediocre sound. The price is high because they cannot afford a low price for manual production. And for Tea - there is nothing to beat, whether you like it or not and … it has already been upgraded by Voodoo magic 
. Enjoy the music 
By the way- are the conversations with Nicholas still pleasant? 
I consider them to be very much the same flavour… energetic, fun, with decent technical abilities. They are both sets for those that like engagement In their reproduction
Hi everyone. I thought about weather I should comment or not because ultimately this is about music and how we like to hear that music and one man’s cup of tea is anothers poison.
I am the first one to always try and make things very clear with regards to how I give my opinions
They are based on what I listen too, what I enjoy , however for the sake of being fair, i try to listen to other music genres so that if I say something isn’t good it has been put into context.
Sometimes I will say it’s bad…for example the SHOZY Ceres…it’s nasty…no one can possibly explain or convince me that it can play music…it can’t.
With regards to The AüR Audio Neon, I like it… period.
For me , and for what I listen it’s more than capable of bringing a smile to my face.
Will it suit everyone…no it wont but then again we have the TinHifi P1 and P1 Plus…are they good? … yes they are…are they ideal for me?..no they are not, especially when we have the Timeless and S12.
Now you will get those that will scream blasphemy…Tony how can you possibly say the S12 and Timeless are better than the P1…well for me it is…the P1 can only begin to be fun to me if I EQ it…and many people do just that.
Another quick example…how many people bought the DM initially…not many…and why?..well it was a new brand and the info available was not exactly ground breaking…the graph wasn’t inviting , so people.stayed away until it began getting reviews and to its favour those reviews where by people that found in the DM the perfect match for their preferences.
The practical result was a overnight success with people that hadn’t looked at it before buying it and paying 500…600 with no second thought.
Enter the Neon…and let me just say the following …I HAVE NO INVESTED INTEREST in the brand other than I like the Neon…hell before the Neon I bought a Duet and I didn’t find it appealing to me, and I said it.
I think that everyone is entitled to their opinion and Nymz did exactly that, he expressed his thoughts on the Neon.
Was his opinion perhaps a little hard… maybe yes…but not because he was doing it intentionally, but rather because he is an individual that has been lucky enough to very quickly progress in this hobbie , having access to sets many will never hear, all of this allowing him to be more critical, more demanding and obviously providing him with a reference that is of a very high standard…hell if you drive a Bentley, even if you don’t want to do it, if you then drive a Class C Mercedes , inevitably comparisons will be made.
All I am saying guys is that not only is Nymz entitled to his opinion and we as consumers that read should not be too quick to take sides or make decisions, but also manufacturers can sometimes not know how to handle the criticism that is given to their products in the best way…they are also human after all.
I really hope this will just.blow over…hell people this is ABOUT THE MUSIC… enjoy it…you don’t know when your light will.be put off and all those lovely earphones will probably become just expensive Xmas Tree decorations.
Whoa, I missed this but not Mr Teo
He claimed Lokahi was made by him and Linsoul stole it.
Anyone who used Shopee knew at the time he was buying it and reselling it as his own brand.
Then after trashing me and Linsoul he admitted it was indeed not made buy him and he was getting it from a DIY guy in China.
f he had made the website he promised he woulda kept that guy but he did not
So Linsoul did.
I saw his chat with Lillian because I said…“This guy is trashing Linsoul”
She said it cannot be because she had talked with him and they had made peace.
Business.
But he kept on.
He still shits on Linsoul and anyone not on board.
Glad you called him out on the bullshit and whoever he was whispering to can go fuck themselves too 
Those were the people that warned me and came out clean.
I think this subject had too many nails in the coffin by now, so I’ll rest this case.
Funny thing is to wake up to loads of notifications saying kudos to standing up and saying they felt the same in different situations with different brands… This saddens me. Guess we need a #metoo of some short.
Be honest, be kind, be truthfull. Link music, it will do the job.
Health matters, food matters, music matters. This just a hobby and a business. Nothing worth losing your mind or soul about…
On my joyful news, I’m loaning my ej07 to Tony and hes lending me two very interesting and aclaimed sets to compare to Olina 
Over and out.
nymz, the icloud leaker
CEO of #metoo
Single DD
Man if he got his panties in a bunch and threw all his toys out of the pram because you didn’t find that set to your liking he’s in the wrong subjective fucking business…You gave an honest opinion based on your personal preferences and library and the set came up short IYHO…AüR should be grateful for the feed back instead of bitching…it could’ve been a whole lot worse, you could’ve been a paying customer buying it on a few folks hype then that would’ve really hurt AüR’s rep and any future purchase’s you’d have not made from them.
Great to see both sides, the good and the bad so hardworking folks know where to spend their 
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