He's right though - you're just sitting here pointlessly dogpiling over and over again in a manufacturer thread and then behaving like a temper tantrum teenager whenever someone disagrees with you. Nobody told you you're on drugs or implied you're sick in the head for thinking S12 is better -...

LMAO, I just saw someone else point out on another site that it seems to be very convenient timing to be calling "mid" when this just appeared in Coming Soon: https://www.linsoul.com/products/kiwi-ears-x-crinacle-singolo :beyersmile: It was bound to happen at some point anyway.. Several other...

See, I would have taken you more seriously had you actually stated your opinion based on your own preferences or comparisons, but instead: 1) You imply that reviewers are not trustworthy because they have vested interest in freebies, which: a) Isn't the case for bigger or even some smaller...

A bit off the mark there, I'd say - if you look around the web, it's being praised by people who have dozens to hundreds of IEMs (and reviewers, etc.)... which of course absolutely doesn't mean you have to like it, and as you said, it could be that you have fit problems also. Anyway, that's...

Haven't checked the Sonys too throughly since it seems most of them were older and I wasn't too keen on getting back into their ecosystem and limitations (I used to own Sony this and that). Hiby M300 is something I've noticed, but from what I've seen so far it isn't anything fantastic sound...

500LM arrived as well! Didn't have a lot of time to test it out yet, but so far the overall first impression is that it's nicely balanced and smoother than its predecessors. There are differences between it and EA1000, but they're similar and feel like different tunings of the same general...

Regarding file formats, I didn't touch on it specifically because I assumed we all listen to at least nice FLAC files - so that's not so much of an issue. True, regarding the chips, yes; same things can sound quite different as I've found out in the meantime (particularly when there's an amp in...

Thank you for the suggestion, it's also one of the DAPs I've been eyeing (RS2, Shanling M3 Ultra and iBasso DX170). Completely correct, true. Plus amps and other components differ too. Thank you for the suggestion but I'd rather avoid further Apple stuff. They're not the best quality for audio...

R5G2 also uses dual 9219Cs though - wouldn't that sound quite similar to R3 II or M0 Pro which share the same DACs? This one looked promising... Until I saw the size/thickness. A bit too much of a brick for me, haha, I guess I'll have to wait until they upgrade the sound on R3 II or something.

Hah, that's surprising. I've read countless reviews trying to figure out sizing and most of the time people outright said to buy larger because these are smaller than normal dimension-wise, but you said to go smaller (like Dunu said themselves as well). I guess there really is no way other...

I have a fit question about S&S if anyone could help please: From what I read around, most people seemed to agree that if you normally wear M (commonly around 12 mm), you should buy L for these (= 11.5 mm). Dunu reps, on the other hand, recommended on this very forum to size down for deeper...

Regarding computers, that's what I thought as well but found out that isn't the case; even with decent DAPs and DACs, you don't always get better sound quality. MacBook Pros, for example, already have relatively high quality DACs and amps built in so replacing them with at least equal sound...

Yeah, M0 Pro can currently be bought for about $90 on AliExpress sales. So there is a bit of a price difference between them, but tbf I'm mostly just interested in sound quality. To me the M0 Pro sounded noticeably warmer/less sharp/more bassy than what I was using before (a MacBook). But I did...

More or less, yes, I'm weighing options. I've just posted a thread over in Source Gear too, asking for more info/opinions regarding sound on small DAPs.

Just curious about people's opinions. My primary source at the moment is a laptop (MacBook Pro) and I've had the chance to try out Shanling M0 Pro. I liked that it was a bit bassier than what I'm used to, but that came with a downgrade to clarity, separation and layering vs. the computer. Ex...