It for sure does while it’s not essentially needed in my opinion - you would get a more effortless, full and at the same time more controlled presentation.

I personally wouldn’t go with the Expanse as they actually have a semi-open back design resulting in stage being more on a bit smaller side, and it’s tuning also doesn’t help with this. As for being overly dampened - they all are, which result in absence of air movement, like the sound is...

@Rockwell75 spotted you got the Penon Voltage now, mind sharing some first impressions?

This would age really well I believe..)

Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated and will be looking forward to your findings!

May I ask you to provide some comparisons to any well-known IEM like Traillii, Jewel, Raven, you name it? You have piqued my interest but I just want to keep my expectations real.

So we are able now to bully each due to wrongful numeric preferences, right! Great news! It also seems that the number of real (non-mp3) tracks are around x5 times less than initially declared number - are you into corporate reporting stuff or something like this by any chance?

Indisputable luxury setup it is 😉

At least this one is named with the CapsLock turned on, so it is possible to discern both of the more quickly )

It’s very funny and resembles some meme but I specifically wait for your wait to be over 😂 As I’d need to go into a big hustle to acquire SP3KT if I decide to for the same reasons that you mentioned. I had a Woo Audio Tube Mini with the same tubes I believe and that ringing was killing me. The...

The thing with a stepped attenuator is not the sensitivity of an IEM used but sound dropping out while changing steps (there is nothing you can do with this) and not that big steps amount to match exactly your desired volume (24, but it also have +/- controls, so was not an issue for me).

Yep, tried with Traillii, what aspects are you interested about? When driven through a good Android phone, Mac or PC it sounded almost like DX320 MAX on Gain 2. The background is black, sound is quite technical with noticeable sub bass boost and a bit of highs highlighting, the scene is very...

Well, regularly winters are much more mild there than what you described, a -20 C degree is considered to be cold, and I’ve remember having -30 C only few times in my whole life here, so not sure that I would go along with regular -40 C if it was like this too often 😂

Wish it was an Android based system to be able to listen to my locally saved Tidal library.

@Kunal1991 a lot of guys would probably disagree including infamous @drftr , but I would say that Aroma Jewel has the best quality of the bass in the game right now (quantity wise bassheads could desire more of course). And I would not pick up Z1R as a total package for its price due to recessed...