I think the conclusion I’m going to come to is this… The Tea is one of my favorite IEMs ever made. The Timeless beats the Tea at speed, detail, resolution and clarity at the cost of the Teas impressive dynamics, stage and imaging. Even though the Timeless is a bit cleaner than the Tea, it’s not different enough to warrant recommending the Timeless over the Tea unless you are concerned only with clarity or your library can benefit from a very fast transducer such as metal, but you’ll be missing out on some slam vs the Tea’s dynamic.
If I had to choose between the Timeless or the Tea, I would choose the Tea but both IEMs are great with their own strengths and weaknesses. The Timeless does enough that is unique to carve out a place for a spot in my collection and at it’s price point, it’s another must have.
lol, Sure. I already did. I was listening to Dua Lipa Homesick for my details test.
To my surprise, even though the Timeless sounds clearer than the Tea, the details of the fingers touching the keys and key clicks didn’t pop out as me as much as I was able to hear on the teas. They were clear and audible but when vocals were present, they were harder to make out which leads me to believe the Timless is compressed vs the Tea.
Better than most transducers I’ve heard, but with the caveats of buds. They are in ear open back headphones. It’s hard to compare, but they are a bliss.
For instance, one of them has as good sub bass texture as my Variations, and no, im not kidding.
The other one does female vocals better than mangird tea.
Over in the 7hz Timeless thread someone said that they bought $100 worth of tips and there was a response saying to not spend their entire wallet, it’s just a hobby!
I’m glad that this hobby isn’t my most expensive one (lol). I love flying rc helicopters and they can get expensive very fast. Because of that my view on how expensive other things in the rc world are have become skewed. $800 for a new heli kit that doesn’t come with everything else you need to fly it? Yeah that’s perfectly reasonable. $500 for a rc car kit that doesn’t come with everything you need? That’s way too much. Why would I ever pay that? $3000 in total for the heli? Yeah thats ok. $3000 for new headphones? That still feels like too much to me. Some things are just funny like that. People just have a different outlook on how expensive something feels compared to another thing.
It was me. I said that because the guy wanted to still leave cash for gas and bills…
I’ve spent a lot more than that in tips. But you should never spend more than you should.
Always remeber that comparition is a dream killer. There’s some people that cant spend 50 bucks, because in their life or country is too much. There’s other people who spend 10k over night because they are bored. As always, everything needs to be balanced… Just like frequency responses
Oh yes. Oh so very expensive. At least with audio you can get really kit for cheap (ksc75, yincrow x6 etc). With helicopters you’re spending at least $300-$400 on a small “hobby” grade machine. In the hobby we designate the higher quality helis as “hobby grade” because you can go the mall (at least in the US) and get $100 china helis that don’t fly for shit. That $300-$400 most of the time doesn’t include a radio, battery, or charger. Things just start piling on top of each other. The only “cheap” way is to buy used and most of the time the guys selling are taking a pretty big hit compared to what they paid brand new.
I know this isn’t my thread (sorry Riku), but since there’s a few friendly folks here…I wanted to share with you this little clip of me on my vacation!
It was only supposed to be shared with patrons, but you guys are so nice I wanted to share
I used to fly helicopters as well. I stopped at an Align TRex 550. I was shocked and scared when I started building mine because it was serious, I could kill someone with it if I made a mistake. I also started getting scared about storing those huge lipo batteries after I saw videos of them exploding. The buddy I used to fly with stored his in an ammunition box. I just had a large metal briefcase looking thing for the batteries.
I loved flying, but I would get so depressed when a crash would happen. So much money and time to rebuild it and it would never be the same after a crash.
I want to get back into it at some point but I’d never go bigger than 450. Even then, you could seriously injure someone if it were to get away from you.
Oh yeah definitely. Thats why I don’t fly anything bigger than my 380s around my neighborhood. They are just too dangerous around people who don’t know anything about them. That was old old then if that thing is still flybared.
I use to fly my 450s quite a lot. For me, it was the sweet spot. When ever it seemed I was in a spot where people could see it, they would flock to me and want to watch. It is a cool thing but I would sometimes get people asking me if they could try flying it.
lol
People do not understand the amount of training and skill it requires to actually fly an RC heli. It’s like balancing a metal ball on a table. Only as soon as the nose is pointed at you, everything is backwards.
I spent tons of time in a simulator but I never got to the point where I could do any crazy maneuvers. I have flipped a few of my helis but crashed once and just never wanted to take the chance again. I crashed an Align 450 because it got too far away from me and I lost track of its orientation near some trees. Boom! Tons of money gone in an instant.
