TONALITY: 9/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 8.8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 7.8/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 9/10 INTRO TANSIO MIRAI (TSMR) is an IEM company from China that has neasr 10 years old of audio engineering experience but seriously begin to create their own IEMs in 2018. I have review their TSMR Feat about a month ago and it was such an intense love affair that I make everything possible to test the X which seem logical upgrade of the Feat. Why? Because it use the same incredible dual coaxial...

TONALITY: 8.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 7.8/10 TIMBRE: 8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 Kefine is a newcomer IEM company from China that has release a planar IEM call Klanar about 6 months ago and aim budget friendly IEM release that deliver high sound performance value. Today I will review their second release call Delci. Priced 60$ right now (msrp:75$), the Delci is a single dynamic driver IEM using a 10mm DLC+PU driver. Let see in my review if the...

TONALITY: 7.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9/10 TIMBRE: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.8/10 IMAGING: 9/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 7.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.8/10 Letshuoer is a well established IEM company from China that was founded by Danny To in 2016. They have launch an array of IEM but specialize in hybrid and tribrid IEM. Yet, they have launch best seller planar IEM like the S12 which was acclaim for years as one of best planar IEM. I’m a big fan of their tribrid IEM, especially the EJ07M which i’ve reviewed very positively in...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.8/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.8/10 INTRO Oriveti is a well established IEM company from Hong Kong, China. It was founded in 2015 and since then they have launched hybrid IEM like the OH700VB I've reviewed and tremendously enjoy, as well as multi-BA driver OV series I will discover with you today. They began launching single dynamic driver IEM too with their OD series, OD200 receiving quite good praise...

TONALITY: 7.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 7/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 Creative Lab is a Singaporian audio company founded in 1981 by Sim Wong Hoo. It specialize in wide variety of electronics and audio product including computer sound card, webcam, gaming headphones, IEMs, deskop and laptop speakers as well as TWS buds like the one I will review today. Since this company was founded before I birth, it's been part of my childhood where everybody seem to use creative 2.1 or...

TONALITY: 7/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 6.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (Subjective): 6.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.5/10 Celest is sister company of Kinera, aimed to offer a budget solution for audiophiles seeking new acoustic tech that more often found in pricier IEMs. They have released a budget 50$ 1SPD+1DD hybrid as well as the well acclaimed Pheonixcall 1DD+2BA+2SPD tribrid that I've reviewed lately and found indeed very impressive in technical performance. Today I will review the Plutus...

TONALITY: 7.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGIN: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 7/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 Intro Artti is a newcomer in the IEM industry, based in China it produces OEM IEMs for multiple companies then since about a year begin to make its own. I’ve already reviewed very positively the T10, a 55$ planar IEM that offers skyhigh sound value and put to shame pricier planar IEM like 7HZ Dioko and KZ PR2 to name a few. Priced 65$, the R1 is a 3 dynamic drivers IEM...

TONALITY: 9/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.8/10 INTRO Tansio Mirai (abbreviated TSMR) is an experienced yet rather obscure IEM company from China that began as an OEM maker in 2014 and began making their own IEM once they were confident enough about their experience. This is how they present themself: ‘’The brand name is taken from the Tang and Song dynasties when the ancient Chinese economy and culture were at their...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 (with Nebula cable) SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.8/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.2/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 INTRO Letshuoer is a well established earphones company from China that specialize in hybrid IEM of all types, from multi-DD (DZ4) to hybrid (EJ07M-EJ09) to planar (S12-S15). Today I will review their latest release, the Cadenza 4, which is a follow up of the Cadenza series that has another flagship model called Cadenza 12. The number stands for...

TONALITY: 7.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.8/10 TIMBRE: 6.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 Intro Celest is the sister company of Kinera, its aim is to offer IEM using new technology and pushing sound value boundaries. At first it was supposed to stay in the sub-100$ price range, but it seems Hifigo influenced them to pass this price limit since they do exclusive collaboration with Kinera for IEM like the Plutus or Phoenixcall I will finally test today. Priced 130$, the Pheonixcall is a...

SIMGOT EA500LM REVIEW TONALITY: 7.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.8/10 TIMBRE: 7/10 IMAGING: 8.8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 7/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 8/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.2/10 INTRO ‘’SIMGOT，means "Simple and elegant".We trust only the finest product and perfect service, only the fusion of old-school rules and fashion creativity. Don't give in to conservative and troubles, we will redefine your senses. Stop stepping around and start setting out. Salute to art and science. ‘’ This is how Simgot presents themself, this IEM...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SPATIALITY: 8.2/10 IMAGING: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 7.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 7.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 7.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.5/10 INTRO The Aune Yuki might be very first dongle release from this company, but Aune is very experience with DAC and AMP engineering so this isn’t your normal entry level dongle using cheap OPamp or DAC amping section. Nope, the big selling point of this dongle is the 4-way discrete amplifier that has 16 transistors distributed in a 4x4 pattern that you can contemplate...

TONALITY: 7.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.8/10 TIMBRE: 7/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 8.8/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: at 290$= 8/10 at 200$=8.5/10 INTRO Rose Technics is an IEM company based in China that create IEMs for near 10 years. They specialize in hybrid earphones and make their come back lately with the release of QT9 MK2 which I review and enjoy. Today I will review the follow up of this QT9 serie which is the QT9 MK3. Like the MK2, this is a 1 dynamic driver + 4 balanced armature...

Tonality: 8.5/10 Technicalities: 8.8/10 Timbre: 8.2/10 Soundstage: 8.5/10 Imaging: 8.2/10 Musicality (subjective): 8.8/10 Construction: 7.5/10 Accessories: 9/10 Sound value: 10/10 INTRO Artti is an obscure OEM company from China that was manufacturing IEMs for other companies like Letshuoer before going their own brand. It seem closely connected to Volkchoi but I wasn't able to get much more info about this IEM maker. They've been getting lotta attention on ChiFi Love, thanks to Joel Regalado for it's find about 3-4 months ago. Then I become obsess...

TONALITY: 8.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.2/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 9/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8/10 ACCESSORIES: 8.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 ISN audio is a cable and IEM company from China, owned by Penon which has been doing IEMs and cable under its own name for more or less 5 years. I’ve discover ISN IEMs 2 years ago with the H30 that is a extremely competitive 1DD+2BA (sonion+knowles) hybrid earphones and positively surprise me at the time since it doesn’t follow typical V, U or harman balanced tonality and...

TONALITY: 9/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 IMAGING: 8/10 MUSICALITY: 9/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 10/10 SOUND VALUE: 9/10 Intro Hisenior is an experienced IEM maker from China that specialize in Custom In-ear and UIEM for musician, stage monitoring and audiophile. This company has about 10 years of experience and is well known among musicians but a bit more obscure for headfier and audiophile. This will most likely change in 2024 because they plan to diversify even more their sound signature offering with their...

TONALITY: 8.2/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 8.5/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.2/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 9/10 SOUND VALUE: 8/10 INTRO Penon doesn't need lengthy introduction, it’s among the first hifi chinese audio product distributor and it produces IEMs for years too, under Penon and ISN brands. This isn’t an amateur DIY IEM maker like NiceHCK or **** and other Ali express OEM companies, it’s a passionate and experienced IEM and cable maker with incredible contacts and manufacturing...

TONALITY: 7/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8/10 TIMBRE: 7/10 IMAGING: 8/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 7.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 6.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 8.5/10 ACCESSORIES: 7/10 SOUND VALUE: 8/10 INTRO Oriveti is a Chinese earphones company founded in 2015. I've review and adore their flagship balanced basshead IEM call OH700VB. Today I will review their entry level IEM call OD100. Priced only 70$, the OD100 is a single dynamic driver IEM promising high sound value and using a 9.2mm DLC (diamond-like-coated) dynamic driver. Let see in this review if this is an IEM that...

TONALITY: 8.8/10 TECHNICALITIES: 8.5/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 IMAGING: 7.5/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 9.5/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 9.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 8.5/10 INTRO Soundrhyme is a chinese audio company from Xiamen, China, that begin working as OEM maker in 2017 then founded Soundrhyme official in 2019. Like alot of other chinese company working as OEM in audio, they earn experience working for other and then go on their own with the experience they earn. Unlike alot of chifi companies that get unnoticed, SR already has a solid...

TONALITY: 8.5/10 TECHNICALITIES: 9/10 TIMBRE: 9/10 IMAGING: 9/10 SOUNDSTAGE: 8.5/10 MUSICALITY (subjective): 8.2/10 CONSTRUCTION: 9/10 ACCESSORIES: 7.5/10 SOUND VALUE: 7.5/10 (higher is the price, lower is sound benefit return) INTRO Hifiman is a well known audio company from China that specialize in planar headphones and make a wide range of other products including DAP, DAC-AMPs, IEMs, Dynamic and even electrostatic headphones. It's been a long time since I've been a fan of their headphones. My first real crush began with the competitively...