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The Dunu Titan 1 is my first, in real sense, HiFi headphones, and my preference of the Dunu has started from then on. And the price of Dunu's Titan series has always been in the range that I can afford, so I have bought the Titan1, Titan3 and Titan5.

But when Titan 6 was released, I haven’t been attracted by it. One was that its appearance was not that attractive, and the other was because its sound was no longer what it used to be. But just this month, the Titan S attracted me deeply, with a mechanical appearance, a reasonable price and a neutral sound.

Appearance:
In fact, when I saw the word Titan, I thought of the Nvidia GTX Titan X. I think that the appearance of the Titan S may be a bit of a reference to the Titan X. At first glance, Titan S is angular, but in actual wear, there is no discomfort at all. Due to the compact cavity and light weight, coupled with good ergonomic design, it is more comfortable than ALO Andromeda which also has an angular appearance.

I think Titan S looks good in every way.

 

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Sound:
The sound of Titan S is tasteless and neutural. You can't find its serious shortcomings, and neither can you tell its very outstanding points. After HRTF's compensation, it will show a very flat frequency response graph. Anyway, I will introduce its sound briefly.

The Titan S can be easily driven by mobile phones, but after changing to a balanced output device, the sound will be still greatly improved.

 

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Bass: There are not many basses. The Titan S may not be able to cope with some pop, rock and metal tracks with heavy bass. But fortunately, after blocking the pressure balance hole, the subbass has been significantly improved. After boosting the sub bass, the sound of Titan S is much closer to the Harman target curve, but the disadvantage of the bass boosting is that the mids will be relatively reduced, resulting in a dry sound. I still don't know the diameter of its drivers, I don't think they have large diaphragms because its bass texture is audibly not as good as my FD3. It is difficult for smaller size drivers to bring a large sound stage.

Mids: Mids are actually very standard, moderate and a little thin, it will not cause the vocals to change tones or affect the bass and treble.

Treble: Very standard Harman tuning, though the falloff of 6kHz is too much, resulting reducing a part of sound details, and the overall sound will be slightly darker, the falloff still brings benefits, which is that the Titan S can well suppress the sibilance for most vocals, making vocals harmonious. The treble resolution of the Titan S is also good at its price range.

 

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Conclusion:
In terms of overall performance, the Titan S is at the forefront of the its price range. I thought the Dunu had forgotten the entry-level market when I saw that they were updating mid-to-high level products such as the Zen series, but didn't see the release of any entry-level products. The appearance of Titan S ignited entry-level audiophiles.
The Titan S is suitable for: entry-level audiophiles, users have limited budget, users who use mobile phone to drive it, users who like a more flat sound.
Not suitable for: users who expect too much (for example, want to spend 80 dollars to get 100 dollars sound).
After all, it is a product I highly recommend to buy (within 80 US dollars).

 

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One more funny fact, after the pressure balance hole is blocked, the overall sound style of the Titan S is very close to Moondrop-Variations. Of course, the sound quality of it is inferior to the Variations.