RikudouGoku's Database (IEMs/Earbuds/Headphones Ranking list)

Nah, but his graph is made in a bad way (no consistencty nor accuracy). He just put the buds to the IEC711 coupler. You need either an iem adapter (like I use) or a fake ear along with it.

Yeah, I am not really too much of a fan of these cables but thought there might be people that like them.

For eu that is. :rofl:

Well the poll made no mention of that. Just what we preferred in general.


US Dongle got 1V. Can’t remember if the lightning version is even more powerful or the same.

Yeah, but that is US only. We in EU only have half of that lol.

Havent heard anything about Lightning, lightning should have some limitations for power drawing, but 1V shouldnt be a problem…

Oh, Nymz is from Portugal. Guess that means he gets the castrated version too.

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haha, yeah. And he is on Android as well, so thats another bottleneck (although you can fix that I think by using UAPP/Neutron).

Tell me more? I heard about some android limitations that can be eliminated with UAPP but I thought it was a quality thing like bit rate or sample rate. There is a power limitation?

Yes, I believe it is power limitation.

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Can’t figure out right now if they are only talking about a limit in combination with the apple dongle or in general.


-40dB would cut down the power to 1/10000. You hook up any USB device to android like a ifi gryphon with 1000mW and you only get out 0.1mW ?? Can’t believe that.

-40dB on a 0.5V output sounds strange too. Then there is no power left.

yeah, I know there is a limitation in android in general when it comes to the OS not being very good for audio, which is why players like UAPP/Neutron bypasses it and uses their own thing.

Theme in the background:

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if you haven’t heard he’s done a lot of different covers for dragon ball and others

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I sure have, love these.

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Guess I can say bye bye to my business expenses.

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Just a long shot but going to try my luck. I’m not really an iem guy, but i found an old pair of Klipsch reference x6i iem, and just wow! The tips I think are oval (vs round)and with a good seal it has a musical balanced tuning with great bass (not basshead definitly). It has now peaked my interest in the next step up from it. The actual iem is extremely small and light. Thank you in advance for the hifi guides gang input

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Hopefully it is a lot better than the S4 I used years ago.

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If fit is important then you might want to try the Sennheiser ie300 or ie600. It’s small and from what I have read most people find it is very comfortable but there are no guarantees as everyone ear is different. It’s a v shaped tuning and the 600 is better but also more expensive.

Thanks but looking for a mostly neutral profile with a warm musicality. I believe the Klipsch is a single balanced armature driver if that makes a difference.

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Fwiw I used Squig Link to make an EQ profile for the IE300 that mimics the IE600 and it sounds pretty great.

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