Post by Rabbit on Mar 30, 2020 15:59:20 GMT
I had a pair of these sent to me to review for a shop a d produce a video for them. Now the shop is shut, I don’t have to at the moment but I have time to play with these iem’s.
I already had the triple driver version which is very good and these are even better!
First, the packaging for an iem is unbelievable. A really posh big box with 9 sets of tips. Probably because the barrel is pretty wide. I can only assume that with all those drivers inside, it needs to be bigger anyway.
The build is like a tank. It kind of resembles a bullet pointing away from your ears. I like bigger iems because you actually have something to grab and twist to get a good seal. They are quite heavy, so the tips need to fit pretty well to hold the iem in.
My gawd, do you know when you have a seal with these? The bass is big and full. It’s also very quick. On bass drum, you get this big attack which dies fast so that although it’s big, it doesn’t swamp everything. Very often with iems, the top end goes edgy at loud volumes, but these don’t. They are very smooth. I’d say that the sound reminds me of Sennheiser headphones in that they are not splashy, a slight heft in the bass with very nice mids.
Just listening to Ozric Tentacles and boy, does the sound fill out. Trouble is, it is SO tempting to listen loud because you actually can! I just find that the sound grows bigger as you get louder rather than edgy as so many iem’s do. The sound reminds me of an IEM that Mark up in Scotland once sent me that were built from wood. I assumed that the warmth was the wood, but these are solid metal bodied but still very ‘organic’ sounding. Reverb is clearly included with this Ozric recording. I can hear the room. (And electronic reverb) Snare drum has pitch and it easily points out that Ozric Tentacles use a snare with a pretty low pitch. Either a big snare drum or tuned low.
You can listen very loud without pain and to my ears, they kind of sound like full size headphones which is quite odd with iems. I normally feel like they can’t go loud without sounding untidy, but these hold together pretty well.
I think some might find them too smooth in the top end but you do hear cymbal stuff clearly. I think maybe something is sucked out up there that makes them seem so smooth.
Sounds seem to be well defined and separated. Deadly on distortion. I was listening to a podcast which has been poorly rendered and the distortion in the podcast was right in my face. So they are probably more resolving than I first felt because of their warm timbre.
They seem kind of laid back so you get the feeling that everything isn’t there, but over time, you kind of realise it is but not in your face. It wasn’t until I heard that distortion on the podcast that I realised that they do dig up detail. The distortion isn’t so nasty on the iems I normally use. At least not as obvious.
So they are a healthy pair of buds and are more pleasant than those little fiddly things that go in your ears.
Great at high volume with a big hearted bass. Less presence at low volume. In fact, they sound huge. I quite like them.
I already had the triple driver version which is very good and these are even better!
First, the packaging for an iem is unbelievable. A really posh big box with 9 sets of tips. Probably because the barrel is pretty wide. I can only assume that with all those drivers inside, it needs to be bigger anyway.
The build is like a tank. It kind of resembles a bullet pointing away from your ears. I like bigger iems because you actually have something to grab and twist to get a good seal. They are quite heavy, so the tips need to fit pretty well to hold the iem in.
My gawd, do you know when you have a seal with these? The bass is big and full. It’s also very quick. On bass drum, you get this big attack which dies fast so that although it’s big, it doesn’t swamp everything. Very often with iems, the top end goes edgy at loud volumes, but these don’t. They are very smooth. I’d say that the sound reminds me of Sennheiser headphones in that they are not splashy, a slight heft in the bass with very nice mids.
Just listening to Ozric Tentacles and boy, does the sound fill out. Trouble is, it is SO tempting to listen loud because you actually can! I just find that the sound grows bigger as you get louder rather than edgy as so many iem’s do. The sound reminds me of an IEM that Mark up in Scotland once sent me that were built from wood. I assumed that the warmth was the wood, but these are solid metal bodied but still very ‘organic’ sounding. Reverb is clearly included with this Ozric recording. I can hear the room. (And electronic reverb) Snare drum has pitch and it easily points out that Ozric Tentacles use a snare with a pretty low pitch. Either a big snare drum or tuned low.
You can listen very loud without pain and to my ears, they kind of sound like full size headphones which is quite odd with iems. I normally feel like they can’t go loud without sounding untidy, but these hold together pretty well.
I think some might find them too smooth in the top end but you do hear cymbal stuff clearly. I think maybe something is sucked out up there that makes them seem so smooth.
Sounds seem to be well defined and separated. Deadly on distortion. I was listening to a podcast which has been poorly rendered and the distortion in the podcast was right in my face. So they are probably more resolving than I first felt because of their warm timbre.
They seem kind of laid back so you get the feeling that everything isn’t there, but over time, you kind of realise it is but not in your face. It wasn’t until I heard that distortion on the podcast that I realised that they do dig up detail. The distortion isn’t so nasty on the iems I normally use. At least not as obvious.
So they are a healthy pair of buds and are more pleasant than those little fiddly things that go in your ears.
Great at high volume with a big hearted bass. Less presence at low volume. In fact, they sound huge. I quite like them.