Actually, there's another business model: release IEMs every week (sometimes two a day cough cough Merga and Libra). Throw as much stuff on a wall and hope something sticks. For every 10 IEMs that fall by the wayside, heck it, depend on that 1 golden ticket to rake in the moolah. We might be...

The upcoming AFUL EXPLORER - previously known in beta-testing as the Performer 3 - is releasing soon. I tested a pre-production unit at Can Jam Singapore, and the rep was saying it would be a sub-$100 USD IEM. That was not the final tuning though, but the Can Jam unit sounded neutral with a...

KZ pokemon + waifu is a very lethal combination. Sales will hit one billion or more. Moondrop is in trouble....

Here's a review of the Shozy MXN: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/shozy-mxn.27213/reviews#review-33814 This is a midcentric midFI earbud that is very lush, musical and smooth. Pros: Well accessorized Comfortable and low-profile fitting Relatively easy to drive Warm mid-centric profile...

Haha then these KBEAR early buyers might be in for a disappointing and wallet-burning time.

KBEAR has been on a series of flops since 2022. Their previous releases circa 2021 were quite well received in the community. However, their recent releases since then - Qinglong, Xuanwu, Ink 1 and 2, Storm, TRI Star River (sister company of KBEAR) - ranged from mediocre to downright bad. Just...

Thanks. I don't get any hiss on 3.5 mm or 4.4 mm with the KA17.

I'm glad you had a successful transaction with the shop, and hope it was a one-off bad service for myself. Though I've bought nearly 400+ items on Aliexpress and while fake tracking numbers are a common occurrence (so that the shop shows Ali that they shipped out the item within a time frame...

If you read about the AFUL Magic One, it is a single BA set that has some "Nautilus Acoustic Maze Technology" rear cavity acoustic tube - which is an acoustic damper that operates via air pressure to down-throttle certain frequencies; this essentially results in an increased sub-bass resonance...

On paper, the Origin has 3 tuning nozzles but it is a scam as there ain't much sonic differences on graphing. The Falcon Ultra has only two tuning nozzles but they do make a difference, one is more Harmanish, the other is laid back. Anyway the Falcon Ultra has more sub-bass, with a tinge...

Be careful of that shop selling the TMusic EP6. I got scammed by them. After buying it plus another eabud during an Ali sale, the seller gave a fake tracking to some Siberian forest address. I messaged the seller to clarify. They claimed it was just a placeholder, please wait and don't cancel...