i keep hearing good thing about delci, i'm currently looking for a better successor for one budget iem that i haven't give away. seems its close enough, there is one second hand for $45-ish, i'm currently negotiating, tough that cash it might turn into Shadow of Erdree preorder

i have both for awhile, - Harman have cleaner sound, have bass with decent "thump" and a bit of texturing. but it can sound a bit thin. - Bass have thumpy boomy bass that covers other freq (mids and all), but it also have better body in sound. i don't particularly like the obnoxious bass, so i...

i kinda used to 4~6 week of free delivery from AliExpress via chinesemail service or something

KZ vs TRN competition, especially ZS10Pro segment is a gift that keep giving. previously with KZ ZS10Pro vs TRN V90, later with KZ ZS10Pro X and TRN ST5, and now KZ ZS10Pro2 with TRN ST7 I think TRN is trying to one up KZ in driver count and undercut the price with TRN ST7. Thankfully the tuning...

arent explorer suppose to be a third of DaVinci price? If its somehow close, i'm buying explorer

i doubt it'll match aria, but interesting question on how close it manage to be to Aria? OG aria have that lush, bodied, mids that i still love.

Hows the resolution and details? i'm kinda wondering how good are the Dynamic driver they used for this unique collab.

talking about kz budget 1dd, short early impression of libra by CountryBoyHK in Knowledge Zenith thread. hows the resolution? How is it compared to Aria 2 that they compare in graph?

yeah, i have both castors after i got trio, i gave castor bass away. trio have cleaner bass and cleaner mids (my current daily) vader balanced seems to be KZ attempt to polish Trio a bit more, so thats got my attention. its cheaper than trio in my place too. --- it have thinner body in sound...

CVJ is doing the throw anything see what sticks strategy but unlike trying to do it in one particular direction like KZ/CCA do, CVJ is throwing it at all direction. from super cheap, to premium drivers, to "gaming" iems, to uber waifu iems. i was wondering what happen to CVJs KZ-AS24 competitor...

different measurement sample, the main difference seems to be in 2K to 5K gain. Da Vinci have more upper mids, vocal focus?

thats possibly a microplanar there is a small planar driver in it. Not sure whether i can find the internal shot, one of the recent iems marketing material have it -- edit: found it, its the one in Simgot Supermix promo material MicroPlanar internal illustration, BA driver for comparison

There is a better drawn one, but this is the one i found basic illustration on FR to instrument and interactive one, https://alexiy.nl/eq/ and explanation by the measurement king crin https://crinacle.com/2020/04/08/graphs-101-how-to-read-headphone-measurements/ --- also the two stepsibling...

When i got my castors, i gave away my remaining budget iems (only have 3 tough) to family and friends, save for Eda balanced that one need direct tuning successor before being given away.

Thank you, love reading your passion on this hobby as well. --- well, apparently Waifu box have evolved. We have IEM waifu lore now, CVJ Night Elf (3DD) The setup is more interesting than i thought, three different DD (1x 6mmDD, 1x 10mmDD, 1x 8mmDD) that spiky treble section tough and...

Yup, i procrastinate here a lot. I dont have that many experience with expensive gear as my budget limited, didnt have much technical capability around gears, not a reviewer. Just someone who hang around in this community and following the news around chifi and occasionally buy budget iems. I...

Yeah, i think this is AngelEars promotion. Waifu image is more of their alley than kz If they refund as store credit somehow it will be kinda win win for them

Zishan/walnut and that overly expensive capacitor. And og xd05 and op-amp rolling. That was zs5, zs6 days. I'm still using dragonfly black dongle for my phone.

somehow we get used to it and able to recognize the poetry style when KZ is trying to create a hidden new branch, JoyAudio, people able to smell that its related to KZ thanks to its marketing material have KZ "vibes"

they also helped the marketing and commisioned this pretty image for marketing. We didn't get a waifu box tough. just normal (smaller) KZ box.

New KZ Products, The Bluetooh Earhook the budget one at $26, KZ AE01 https://www.kztws.com/products/kz-ae01 Bluetooth 5.4 (unnamed bluetooth chip), AAC only, 6 hour battery (20 total) the expensive one at $64, KZ XZ10 https://www.kztws.com/products/kz-xz10 Bluetooth 5.3 (QCC5171)...

Also, KZ x AngelEars Collab KZ Libra, 1 DD ($12-ish) --- That direct comparison to Aria2 and Harman2019 tough

Akros collab, a 1DD iem apparently. --- Also KZ new Bluetooth Earhook, the budget one at $26, KZ AE01 https://www.kztws.com/products/kz-ae01 Bluetooth 5.4 (unnamed bluetooth chip), AAC only, 6 hour battery (20 total) the expensive one at $64, KZ XZ10...

I grew up during Nokia early camera phone era where every phone could look VERY different from one to another.

Speaking about the Dark Magician, Dark Magician unclaimed stepsibling, XSL got an update in form of XSL X-One LM