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Kbear BE-LIEVE

Posted on 18 January 202119 January 2021

These drivers have been anticipated by an even denser than usual storm of hype-y marketing content. All sorts of information have been released before and together with the product, and the first “reviewers” spent nothing short of bold words about these. Alleged magnificent features apart, a major disclaimer is one way or the other present…

final A3000

Posted on 17 January 202117 January 2021

Here’s my consolidated experience with the first of the two most recently released final IEMs – A3000 and A4000 As always, final puts a significant research effort in its product in the first place. A3000 has been developed as an evolution of their A series, which started last year with flagship model A8000. Always last…

Hisenior T2U

Posted on 13 January 2021

Hisenior specialises in professional and custom IEMs, and as such it’s quite off my “usual” investigation paths. That’s why I came accross an entry-level Universal fit model of theirs only thanks to a direct friend’s input. Invited by a (publicly available) 50% off its nominal MRSP I took the odds of a blind buy and…

KBEAR Lark

Posted on 15 December 202016 December 2020

Important preliminary note: Lark is a product in a sense “born twice”. Its initial release has been stopped after the first users reported a treble section output not in line with what originally wanted by the designers. KBEAR stopped distribution, fixed whatever needed to, and restarted it. This sample I’m reporting about on this article…

Quick impressions: CustomArt Fibae Black

Posted on 9 December 2020

I recently got an opportunity to assess a pair of privately owned Fibae Black, which are coming with some supposedly very interesting technological quirks which the manufacturer calls “Flat Impedance” BA drivers and “Pressure Optimizing Design”. Flat Impedance drivers are supposed to be what the name says, as described here: CustomArt claims that their drivers…

TRN VX

Posted on 8 December 202014 December 2020

It’s a crazily crowded market down there below the $50 mark and TRN VX compete in that segment. It does it with quite some authority, too: VX is not bad at all. Actually, its sole real tuning “flaw” is that excessive peak at 8 Khz which I doubt can be considered nice even by die-hard…

TRN BA8: very picky

Posted on 26 November 202027 November 2020

In my direct experience BA8 is possibly the most capricious IEM I ever auditioned when it comes to source pairing. When it does not “like” the source, it reacts very badly. I discovered this the hard way: first source I plugged it onto has been my Questyle QP1R. Even before hitting “play”, I was struck…

Ikko OH10: masterfully jazzy

Posted on 19 November 2020

In my everdeveloping quest for the best performance on acoustic jazz at a digestable price for my pockets this time I came onto Ikko OH10, which gets the job done right right as I like it. All my sound priorities for this application are indeed there, and very competently carried out: significant extention both on…

Quick impressions: Penon Sphere

Posted on 25 October 2020

Again a privately owned IEM which I’m having the opportunity to audition for a few days to build my own impression upon. I tested them with my usual local-stored 16 / 24 bit – 44.1 / 96 / 192K music collection. Sources: Lotoo PAW 5000 Questyle QP1R Laptop -> ifi nano iUSB3.0 (w/ iPower PS)…

Quick impressions: IMR RAH

Posted on 18 October 202019 October 2020

I got to taste the flavour of a pair of privately owned IMR’s triple-driver RAH model. Not enough to write a full review with all the details etc, but I jotted down some notes, here they are. The most “externally evident” component of the product is the replaceable nozzle + filter system intended for the…

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