I owned IER-Z1R for about 9 months.
Kind of nutural.
It will remind you of AudioTechnica’s ADX5000 , which I owned for longer.
But treble is kind of troublesome..I mean .. that’s why you need an AMP to drive them.
They can deliver absolute the best treble details . But if your equipment can not… It just sound harsh.
You need a DAC and AMP abeling to present wide and upper treble/deeper low-end or you will not like Z1R much.
Lowend has good quantity, but not enough quality if without good AMP…
And as nutural and kind of reference…your shitty sense of music will surely been presented…Infront of you , BIGGER…Detailed.
Can not recommend for majority of people. It’s kind of hard to not listen to shitty music nowadays including me. And people don’t buy different over 14k $ IEMs for different type of music…Z1R means you should invest more on equipments to drive it.
After I boutht it for 3 months, I’m still wondering why SONY built this unresonable monster as an IEM.
Oh and it is heavy and big, phisically. You can’t keep listening to it over an hour , unless you have ears made of steel.
