Well, there's plenty of Elex vs Clear comparions out there so you can probably get a sense of it by transitive property :smile: But slightly more seriously, the Hadenys isn't like the Clear at all IMO. The tuning and technicalities are quite distinct from one another. I'd say the Hadenys is...

I can't really give a good comparison as I only heard the Celestee very briefly once before. But from my experience with the other Focals, the general theme is that the older Focals have more of that classic dynamic ability that many of us love them for. The newer Azurys and Hadenys fall short...

My review of the Focal Azurys and Hadenys is up: https://headphones.com/blogs/reviews/focal-azurys-and-hadenys-dual-review-the-focal-evolution Included are comparisons to the Elex and HD 600 for the Hadenys, and Bathys for the Azurys. Overall, I think Focal did a good job with both of these...

Thanks for giving MusicTeck the credit here Rockwell, I appreciate it. I wasn't 100% sure where these units came from and subsequently forgot to think about mentioning them. My bad, I'll be sure to get that right in the future. I do want to make it clear though that when I met up with my fellow...

Met up with a fellow watercooler friend today. He brought over the AME line-up. It's a brand I've never heard of before so I went into this completely blind. Edit: Shoutout to Musicteck and AME for sending these units on the watercooler tour. Here are my first impressions. As usual, these are...

I wouldn't say Focal "lost their way" with the Radiance. It's a good headphone. These Focals are quite a bit different from their traditional house sound however, so I wouldn't look at them in the same light as the previous offerings.

Yea, this is exactly my problem. ddHiFi has a nice stand I'm considering https://cn.ddhifi.com/en/product/hs210/ but you can't really get the face of the IEM, just a whole body shot. Some of the jewelry stuff has the right idea but yea the ones I've seen are pretty ugly. Do you have any...

Does anyone have any ideas for some nice accessories to showcase your IEMs, kinda like jewelry stand style? Thinking it would be a nice piece in any video reviews similar to a headphone stand. That Canpur stand above looks nice but I can't seem to easily find any like it, at least for a...

Are the inner sections interchangeable/moveable? I'm chucking everything into one of those old Dekoni headphone bags at the moment whenever I go for meets

I just got these in (shameless plug to my inactive audio Insta) and my first impressions are quite similar to Resolve's review here (haven't watched Jude's yet). I'm actually slightly annoyed with how much I agree with Resolve because I watched his video after my first listen and he pretty much...

Unless I'm getting the Ragnar mixed up with another IEM, I'd say the STORM and the Ragnar are quite different altogether and don;t really compare to be honest. The STORM is much more warmer than the Ragnar and doesn't have the ultra sharp treble peaks. I didn't find the Ragnar's bass to be...

Personally, I care less about what drivers are being used and more about how it sounds. DD, BA, planar, bone conduction, it doesn't matter to me. Only the experience matters. The thing that the STORM does better than any IEM is dynamics. When notes land it's just thunderous in a way I've simply...

Oh the answer is simple. It's not mine LOL. I was borrowing it as part of a private tour. I can't afford one :(

Got back from a little meet in Toronto with @dleblanc343 and a few other folks here from the watercooler thread and outside of it. And when I say "little meet", I mean there was a lot of great gear there, including the Subtonic STORM that I handed off. Any way, here are some quick impressions...

I think what folks might be annoyed by is that your concerns of marketing psychology, price bias, ABX testing, placebo, etc etc etc. are all very old and tired topics of discussion. It's often the first thing that's brought up with every expensive, highly rated product. I think your concerns are...