Gain more experience with more IEMs and different driver technologies before you say that.
You may think technicalities are more important to you because you have little experience with them. So naturally itâs a portion of the hobby you should explore to gain that knowledge.
I would never say that technicalities are actually more important than FR/tonality. It all boils down to personal preferences, but at the end of the day, you can have all the technicalities in the world, but if the tonality is poor, the music, the enjoyment of the music as well as the technicalities will all suffer.
To have a true HIFI experience, I feel everything matters, both tonality and technicalities.
That is why this hobby is subjective. Everyone has itâs own path to his ideal IEM. Some chase details in songs while others chase how music sounds (tonality).
In the budget area these two often donât go along, you either have correct tonality with the expense of details or you have detail monster with bad tuning. The higher you go (pricewise), more likely is that tonality and details will go hand in hand.
In the budget realm, if you choose wisely, youâll be able to get TOTL tonality, coherency, timbre and comfort. Thatâs actually a really very good mix of technicalities and tuning.
In the more expensive realm, if you choose wisely, youâll hopefully be gaining all the budget aspects but adding technicalities such as better clarity/resolution, increased stage size, improved imaging and separation, but many times at the cost of coherency and timbre depending on your driver choices.
Everything has positives and negatives associated with it and unfortunately, throwing more and more money at the hobby doesnât usually get you everything, especially not everything in one package.
Thanks, I guess I got lucky. I love my custom Legacy 3âŠ
It got really bad driver flex in one IEM and not the other. It never sounded right. It was quite dark/had little treble. When I received my custom, I was so relieved, it sounded nothing like the blue one.
God that l2âs gorgeous, you take iem pics to the next level and u have all them pretty ones too, the og l3 is terrible compared to their recent additions and the new l3âs sheesh
Of course, there are luckily some exceptions in budget realm. But if youâre not experienced and read and trust some hyped reviews, youâre more likely to make a bad choice/purchase.
Gotta say to add to the debate, in cases like the bl03 the lacking technicalities add to the tonality being worse than it could be for example the resolution in the bass making it sound bloated. Or slowness I guess, point is the amount of bass isnât the problem there but the quality is.
I havenât A/Bâed them and havenât listened to the L2 in quite a while so I wouldnât be able to say easily off the top of my head. From memory though if I had to compare, I prefer Mele. The L2 is very good at fast speed & transients. Itâs beryllium DD feels almost unnaturally fast. The Mele is just perfectly tuned for most music. Iâd have to rec Mele. Itâs not as fast as L2 but most wonât care when it sounds as good as it does. Someone who loves super fast death metal (fast double kickdrums) might prefer the L2 but thatâs about it I think.
Hi there, I saw you said you prefer Mele to Aria due to the tuning. May I know a more in-depth explanation on that and what genres do you usually listen that made Mele the better choice?
The Aria and most DD Moondrops are targeting Harman. Mele and @hawaiibadboy is targeting his preferred tuning curve which just so happens to match up extremely closely with the Clairvoyance which many regard as one of the most ideal tunings available today.
Mele DD is also made of graphene.
I now have a reason to never speak of Moondrop or their products ever again after their social media disaster, but thatâs for a different discussion. Iâm done with Moondrop.
It comes down to preferences and what works with the hardware/drivers best. My preference just lies with Mele because I like the way it sounds with so much and itâs even less expensive!
I listen to a lot of genres except for classic rock and country. This is what I currently have loaded into Dopamine flacâŠ
Andrew/Resolve from the Headphone show (which I have huge respect for) has also stated that the Clarvoynace is pretty much perfectly tuned and his #1 preference and target curve currently, so I am not alone. I just wish the Clairvoyance was a much better resolving and technical IEM like the Monarch is. At least they got the tuning right.
Now that we all have Mele, we can all hear what TOTL tuning sounds like and not just be harman sheep. BUT! If you want to hear Harman done well, look no further than the Oxygen.
To be fair, I can understand those as autocorrect issues, I for one have a lot of impatient trouble typing on my phone which is sometimes my only chance to respond to things.
I feel all sides are getting too defensive/snarky over miscommunications.
FYI⊠The MEST MKII does not graph properly because of its bone conduction. It is just as elevated in the pinna gain as the others if not more. Itâs the only IEM I have that the graph does not represent how it actually sounds.
All I can go by are words and he was mis-quoting what I said. I donât care if you are impatient, take your time and clearly write what you mean to say or do not say it at all.
Like I said, obviously its all miscommunication because I canât even understand what he is trying to say. Iâve already forgotten about it.
