Ikko OH10
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804906066172.html
120 usd
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There are a couple of good deals on tgxear buds at head fi right now. People are selling their old buds to fund the new flagships
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C$ 96.85 15%OFF | SIMGOT EA500 Hi-Res In Ear Monitor Headphone with Detachable Cable Dynamic Driver IEM Earphone HiFi Stereo Wired Earbuds
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKf8l7g
BACK IN STOCK
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Couldn’t resist the urge on Tantalus. Just waiting for the PM back. I’m to curious to hear it compared to my Serratus. Who knows maybe I’ll enjoy it more or just differently. Ripples didn’t quite cut it for me but my curiosity has me wanting to have heard all three. Thanks for the heads up.
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TRN has a sister company called FZ. They got a crazy cheap cable over here.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004285195797.html
(new account deal is like 1 usd, but sold at around 5 usd otherwise.)
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Szalayi with cable, $500
What about Totem? 
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One was me - my Ripples sold in 10 minutes - going to buy Carbon (which I think is like Ripples but in the metal bell shell)
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Seems like a nice cable, I grabbed a few at that price.
Drop has the A30Pro for $209 which is less than the last few used ones I saw on eBay sell for.
Amazon has a few deals:
Soundblaster X1 for $49
I use one for ear buds and it works on Android and Linux too. It’s got good power, but not for low ohm planars since it auto detects resistance and hits 2.4v at 150ohm+ Nice for a gaming DAC with a Topping L30 II
SMSL HO200 $60 off coupon, but they have one used model for $299
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They only have 1 trade, but used IE600 for $400:
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Linsoul is doing $10 off the Legato although there is still no final price so who knows how good a deal it is…
EDIT: looks like it will be $99 after the discount. Idk why people in head-fi are saying it’s priced too high when there have been zero reviews on it…
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Not saying this one is fake but fake Sennheiser IEMs are pretty prevalent. It’s a great price for a great IEM if it is real though!
I knew that was true for their older models like the IE800 where it’s probably harder to find a real one than a fake one online. I had a hard time years back having to document the 3 or so subtle but present signs that an IE800 I bought from someone was not legitimate, they thought they were real the whole time they owned them! They sounded awful but I’d probably think that of the real ones too. It was things to do with embroidery/plaque on the packaging, the cable length being wrong for the IEMs to lay ideally in packaging, etc. Visually all very subtle.
Worth noting then, thanks!
yeah I know its pretty big with the IE900 and the fake ones are damn near impossible to tell apart from the real ones. A lot of convo on it over at head-fi. I think the IE600 is a bit less though since they are newer and the shell is probably harder to fake, being 3D printed and all
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Ohhhhh, you talking to me? Nah, to clear up what I said on Head-Fi, I don’t think $100 is necessarily too expensive, but I do think with a higher price tag comes some speculation on why this particular IEM is better than the others under that price range that have been out for a while now. Khan, Zero, hell, even the Star River. I don’t mean to pass judgment on an IEM none of us has heard yet, and I’ll even take it a step further - I would love 7hz to get back into the mix with a really great IEM like they did with the Timeless. Only time will tell.
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Haha I didn’t even look at names so I didn’t know it was you. I feel like people judge too much initially based on driver count/setup. Like it there is a popular budget single DD and a new one gets announced the first comments are almost always “it’s dead if it’s more than ”
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The thing about that is it’s because the under-$50 bracket has gotten competent enough that unless you are bringing something great in the technicalities/intangibles, then it is a hard sell. Sets like P1 Max, KBear Ormosia, and EA500 are all competent-to-good-to-great but all were DOA at their MSRP. EA500 is the only one of the three to drop it’s price before the market had passed them by and now they’re building up hype.
The other two are niche sets most people haven’t heard and usually disregard.
The context of pricing matters so much, in 2023
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I think the context of pricing has always mattered. I also agree that pricing has gotten very competitive so it makes sense we expect more for less but I still think these judgements are rooted in the fallacy that more drivers == better. Or maybe it’s just that when a company enters the budget realm we they are expected to stay there or not be capable of leaving it?
You see new tribrids drop and no one compares them to the budget sets you mention or say “if that is over $100 it’s dead”. We just accept that a tribid or 12 driver hybrid (looking at you Cadenza) is acceptable at $1000+ but a single DD is crazy at that price.
I feel like if the Legato was a Dunu product and not a 7Hz product we wouldn’t bat an eye at $100. I would go so far as to say people would be commenting on how cheap that price is in that situation.
Now that I went on this big rant about how we shouldn’t be judging the Legato without listening to it I know it’s gonna end up sucking haha
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I hear you, to a point. And you’re right about if Dunu released a $100 1DD, nobody would bat an eye.
Because look how quickly Kima was forgotten.