It’s basically the new Olina. The build, cable, case, and sound of the overall package is too good to pass on.
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Because the EA500 sounds good full stop. And can be easily modded to be even better but not needed. One of the few worthy of the hype IMHO
Wait a few months and see if its still talked about. If it is, then it has at least passed the test of time.
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@Erokh I don’t hype things unwarranted. Usually I am a “give my opinion but leave the decision up to you” type. I am the first person to get on with EA500, about a month ago, and I didn’t hype it. I said it was great but at $90-100, I wasn’t hyping it over anything in the sub-$100 bracket.
At its $60-70 sale price, it’s the first set I’d recommend to anybody looking to buy a (new) set.
That context matters
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I blame Goobs for my continuous enjoyment of the EA500. 
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EA500 has WAY better soundstage and technicalities. It’s a straight upgrade on Cadenza that I easily recommend saving the money up for. EA500 has great build quality, great safe tuning, and superior intangibles. At $90, there’s an argument for Cadenza. At $70, I don’t think there is
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Thoose two sound miles apart I have a video hopefully out today on the KZ DQS and comparisons to Hola, Cadenza, and EA500 for reference
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Didn’t like the Cadenza and wasn’t wowed by it. Definitely wowed by the Simgot. Graphs are only part of things. Cadenza graphs close to the Serial for that matter.
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sure and I meant nothing negative. A lot of sets have been worth the hype. Just because something has been hyped up doesn’t mean its not worth it or unwarranted. I’m personally super excited to try this one!
the fact that this went from a relatively unknown product to having its own thread with multiple positive YouTube views is almost the definition of a hype train. That is all I was calling out
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This is a great example of how you cant judge an iem by it’s graph alone
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I see your point, but the difference is this is actually an organic hype train based on user experience. When I bought it, there were only 2 videos about EA500 and one was HBB only briefly mentioning it.
And I am not a reviewer with an audience or anything like that because trust that I’ve been enthusiastic about sets before that didn’t pick up steam. In fact, I was enthusiastic about setting up our IEM tour because I wanted people to organically get ears on EA500 to see for themselves, rather than me trying to hype/sell them. Because I do believe this set speaks for itself.
But now this set is building its own momentum and getting attention. It’s really cool to see a set getting its own organic momentum (and being on the ground floor of that doesn’t hurt 
)
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That’s fair and you definitely hit it in the ground floor! Having said that I have a hard time believing most hype trains aren’t organic. The biggest ones I have seen since I started in this hobby have been:
- Timeless
- Olina
- Truthear zero
- Chu
And out of those I would say the chu might be the only “non organic” one.
Anyways, I don’t want to de-rail this thread talking about hype trains. I’m sure the simgot is 1000% worth the praise!
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One thing particular about this hype train and many others is that it is very constrained in terms of time frame when the reviews are being published- and EA500 is not different (even though some of those reviews like Goober’s were preceding by some time, so are “organic”). It is normally like 2 weeks window when everyone post review/video etc to get the attention pumped up.
Simgot for sure is giving green light to when the review can be published for the ones based on “review samples” (directly or indirectly by sending bunch out in the same time and asking for some turnaround time). They have full right to do so and I don’t mean by it that they enforce only praises, but it is planned marketing action, complete opposition to organic hype.
Just my two cents, though I truly believe this is amazing set that would fit my library like a glove and I want to get my hands on it some day. But as some people said before - it is best to wait for couple of months to see if it stood the test of time 
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Looking forward to that video!
I also sent back the cadenza as I didn’t feel it was any better than the Salnotes Zero
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The mid-bass fits my library, but this thing has no sub-bass. So it doesn’t fit everything! And if there is a sub-bass on the graph, most Chinese IEM DDs cannot play it. But there may be something that is not visible 
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Honestly, the biggest thing that made things move was RBW finding the sale that had EA500 down to $63.
If it never had that sale and stuck at $90, it would have been a forgotten IEM, full-stop. It dropping to under $70 gave the whole community an opportunity to re-evaluate the set.
Zeos’ weird ass review on it…somehow didn’t dissuade me and I tried it randomly and ended up being a compelling data point, but I’m still only one person. Once multiple people took a swing on it, because the price proposition made it worth taking a blind swing on it, did it get traction, and then other reviewer/influencers actually got reviews out there. Then the snowball started rolling downhill
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If I don’t end up keeping mine, it’s not because of any tuning or technicalities fault, it’ll just be because of my own preferences. I may still find it too energetic in the end but that’s because most would find my taste too relaxed. It has the slam and timbre of the Bl03, but also the finesse in bass of Dunu’s costly single DDs, at the very least the Vernus. (Never tried the Zen Pro, but had no love at all for the Zen).
For the full package it brings of tuning and technicalities and solid build (with the bonus of extra user tune-ability either by nozzles or basic mods) puts it above the FD5, level with the Canon and Vernus, probably above the Vortex to be honest, at least level, and this is all at the $65-80 price range. That’s why there’s such strong approval for it.
At $150-200 a lot more factors would go into the rec, because then it would be amongst its equals. But instead it’s among sets with less going for them, usually decidedly less complete packages for the sake of hitting a price point.
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You try the tape mod?
That’s exactly what I plan to do 
. That and write little notes on my radar to keep track of who thinks what about the set.