/iemg/ Dogma Check
Tired of the hivemind? Here’s your prescribed sanity dose:

>Crinacle is not your priest.
Rankings are a guide, not divine scripture. Your ears > his spreadsheet.

>Harman ≠ perfect.
It’s a preference curve, not a law of physics. Some genres need deviation.

>Chi-Fi isn’t magic.
Great value, yes. Immune to qc issues and hype cycles? Nah.

>Graphs are not sound.
They don’t show staging, dynamics, or fit. Use your ears, not just squigs.

>BA ≠ metallic, DD ≠ perfect.
Implementation matters more than driver type. Always has.

>Meme sets aren’t the whole hobby.
If it’s not shilled 24/7, it might still be good. It's highly encouraged to form an original opinion.

>Disagreeing ≠ cope or deaf.
Let people like what they like without foaming at the mouth.

>Loud posts =/= smart takes.
Confidence without experience is just noise. Show graphs, impressions, or both.


This has been your scheduled break from pos groupthink.

>Budget
80-90$
>Intended use (media, source, environment)
Music listening, watching youtube videos
>Frequency response preference and music examples
I like neutral, balanced tuning,
>Past gear and your thoughts on them
using 7hz zero 1 I like it mostly sometimes feels requirement of bit fun sounding without peaky highs
Currently confuse between ew300, hexa, letshour s08 and defiant.

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/iemg/ dong check:
there be schizophrenics here

>>108019624
peep, why buy anything else? PEQ your $5 shitbud to perfection

>>108019632
>>108019639
Deaf btw

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thought it was time that i upgraded from the PR2, so i picked up my new pos this morning.

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>>108019797
good one

is a gk kunten worth having

>>108020071
sure, go for it.

>>108020107
will do

>>108019573
Is it possible to have ear canals that can't handle anything inserted into them except earplugs?
Like silicone triflange and foam(isolation ones not IEM tips) were relatively ez to sleep in when i was used to them but IEMs systematically fail to seal my ears(except foam) and if i get a seal then there's unbearable occlusion and pain, i can handle etymotic with comply foam for like an hour max before my ear canal gets increasingly painful and sore, standard IEMs with big shells are less painful but the occlusion and absence of isolation are literal torture.
How do you even remove silicon tips without tweezers or decompression pain? I'd like to enjoy IEMs but the pain is making me sneed harcore considering even redditors of all people can sleep with their IEMs on like nothing happened

why is epz g10 so good, bros?

Not only have my trashdump edc pro survived a year of straight abuse, they can RUMBLE at low volume with just 5bands of peq and 2layers of 500 filters on each plus the little metal grill.
I'm pretty treble sensitive so sadly these shits are absolutely unusable without those filters and eq, but they sound very very good with them.
I hope these stick around and never get revised, probably the closest in bang:buck to OG CCA CRAs
Blue vido are also incredible

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Anyone tried these? Is it endgame?

>>108020986
hello dracomies, please review more truthears

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new shitbud just dropped

>>108021323
>qcd connectors with this price tag
mental illness

>>108021323
i'll definitely buy that, thanks for the recommendation

I got Moondrop Chu 2 like years ago, is there anything better than it for a similar price I can buy? It would be nice to upgrade.

>>108021436
it's only an upgrade when you know what you're after (i.e more bass and less treble), otherwise it's just tradeoffs

>>108019573
At what budget does buying custom molded IEMs actually make sense?

How is the GK Kunten?

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$5 Shitbud Alert

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$5 Shitbud Alert

Hearing loss alert

Five
Five dollar
Five dollar shitbuuuuud

>>108021931
It's like a Honda Civic. Cheap but all you need.

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fell for the meme and tried jeet goblin's target
it's really treble heavy

>>108022091
>no 711
>xhe didn't calibrate it
ngmi to jeet heaven

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>>108022142
i'll buy it probably
i dont think i can get them to fit like at all

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$5 Shitbud Alert

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Are moondropped planar headpos /iemg/ approved?

>>108019573
>• Snowsky Melody (10-Band PEQ) - $38
I fell for it
>turn off DRE to avoid distortion in bass
ok
>it makes 0.5s white noise every time it wakes up (goes to sleep after 5.5s of no sound)
wtf is this, how can I prevent it from going to sleep? I wanted to use it on my pc

>>108022680
The only headpos that's /iemg/-approved is HD 600

>>108022815
>wtf is this, how can I prevent it from going to sleep? I wanted to use it on my pc
Vibe code a python script to continuously play an ultrasound sound in the background so it never turns off, and it is inaudible so whatever.

>>108022964
Only if you're deaf.

>>108022977
PR2

>>108022964
I thought we only bought waifu brands.

>>108022967
found a driver which has a setting just for this purpose
>it only works the first time then it reverts back
idk what I was expecting

>>108023109
We only buy from brands that make you deaf like KZ and Cayin.

>>108023564
holy based

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R2R, tubes, 5DD. Endgame.

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>>108023109
i see so much gear that needs kawai cartoon children on it. imagine paying thousands for this dap system and you dont even get a figurine waifu lol. boring!!

>>108023762
Just have sex with actual children.

Total deafness. Endgame.

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>>108023885
I enjoyed this post.

>>108023885
Leave my mom out of it.

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Best IEM for a genius??

can i actually ever so slightly enlarge my ear canals by actually using slightly bigger eartip, overtime?

>>108023933
It's called dilating sweetie.

>>108023930
Moondrop Stellaris

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I can only use bunny shaped iems now. Everything else is uncomfortable. Even the ones I thought were alright before trying these.

>>108020451
yes, apparently your canals are sensitive. sorry bud.
>>108021323
>rolled-up dingleberries as a shell
gross
>>108023564
>>108023655
samefag shitting up the general

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>>108019573
r8

never used one of these and have no idea what each thingy does. Took about 2 minutes. Using the Kinera Celest Wyvern pro.

>>108024274
what eq software is that even?

>>108024337
I'd rather not say since it's embarrassing but oh well

It's the steelseries sonar app, I just noticed it had an EQ setting and I decided to use it for teh lulz. Like I said, I had no idea what I was doing and did this in 2 minutes. R8 or suggestions would be appreciated.

>>108024274
none of it means a goddamn thing. if you are enjoying it, that's it.

>>108024351
No worries, was just genuinely curious as had never seen something exactly like that, if you want a suggestion; try using a parametric equalizer, if you're on windows EqualizerAPO, for android use PowerAmp Equalizer or Wavelet

Why the FUCK do IEMs always sound awful in the same tinny, shitty way? I've tried using the largest eartips that fit in my ear for the """perfect seal"""" shit, and I've spent 60-80 bucks on a pair, they've all sounded significantly worse than the shitty apple wired earbuds. I just want them to sound good, I don't know what to do. Throwing bigger earpieces and more money at the problem hasn't fixed it, I dunno what will.

>>108024512
you keep buying pos made for troons, take the HBB collab pill and enjoy some midbass heft

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>>108024512
Have you tried these?

>>108024476
thanks for the suggestion anon, will check it out
>>108024368
That is great, but I was wondering maybe someone knows how to make what I did less random and more professional like. Thank you anon.

>>108024537
>I was wondering maybe someone knows how to make what I did less random and more professional like.
that also doesn't mean a goddamn thing, anon. I should've said this in my previous post, that you can't let other people dictate what's good for you. if you are actually enjoying the result of messing around with that eq, you're winning. some people force themselves to go through so much crap before they can even hit the play button..it's sickening. you have better things to worry about in life ;)

>>108024533
I'll try them.

>>108024530
I'll try these once I try the earfucker 9000 tips. Bit burnt out on buying new IEMs.

>>108024512
the shitty apple wired earbuds actually mogs most iems

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>>108023987
>>108024234
lol

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>when the schizo with perfect hearing sees the volume is at 0%

>>108015778
lmao

Where we're going, we won't need ears to hear.

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>>108022964
Only fox headphones are approved.

>>108025723
shut the fuck up lesbo

>>108024512
EQ will fix this and you'll have actual subbass unlike with shartpods.

Stop using EQ. Just buy good IEMs.

>Budget
like sub 50€
>Intended use (media, source, environment)
phone or dap, playing music and media. mostly outside like in trains or at work.
>Frequency response preference and music examples
i have no idea, i listen to a lot of edm-ish, distorted stuff but also a lot of pop. not a whole lot of rock or jazz.
>Past gear and your thoughts on them
ive had moondrop starfields which i liked but they felt too heavy since theyre all metal and after a certain amount of time the sound dampened (apparently because of moisture? which is also connected to the metal housing) so i dont use them anymore. desu since then ive been using airpods pro 2 for comfort reasons but i want to have wired iems again

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>>108026156

>>108022964
and even that is mogged by Hexa

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>>108026156
I do have good IEMs.

>>108026479
Show them.

>>108026501
Open your eyes. You're already in the PR2 and Stellaris thread.

I listen to music based on the feeling and texture of the music or even how the music subjectively "tastes" to me. for example, I like a lot of music by snails house because "his music sounds how sour tastes" the noise is an adhd filled noise scape a lot of the time and this extends to a lot of Vocaloid music I listen to and the jazz I like. This is to say that a lot of music I listen to has lots of noise like a lot of noise that mixes together and you can't actually tell one thing apart from another. why is this important to tell you this is because this IEM makes that chaos sound so clean and beautiful that I cannot explain to you the emotion I felt when I heard a song that had been missing its nuance or in other words detail for the first time.

these IEMs made me cry like literally cry because for once in my life I felt like I could hear the whole song. the vast majority of my library of music is extremely cheerful but there are others that are not when I listened to the album "Unhappy refrain" by wowaka on these I literally cried I could feel the deep emotions he must have had in mind when he made something so messy and disorienting. it's something personal when the music touches you and really connects with you with something that you really understand firsthand and when I listened to it again I reconnected with the album again immediately I instantly got taken back to when I first was exposed to his music when I was in a deep depression using the Audio Technica m50, not to get too personal and not to just pour out my heart in a random online review. basically, the Stellaris brought me so much closer to some of the music I listen to. would it have happened without the Stellaris I don't know should I have gotten the variations instead of buying 2 iems I will never know but I certainly understand detail now.

I honestly find it difficult to articulate how that's something that's so strange sounding that these IEM's are for sure not the best audio equipment I hav

>>108026554
Nobody said they're good.

>>108026564
They're clearly good enough to have a thread dedicated to them and multiple pictures of them posted. Looks like they won. Keep up or get left behind.

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>>108026562

>>108026579
Where is that thread?

>>108026579
That's just deaf people flexing how deaf they are.

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>>108026479
>>108026156
We get it, deafzo, you can't hear.

>>108026590
See. Another picture of a PR2 posted. I rest my case.

>>108026608
Yes many deaf people post here, what is your point?

>>108026588
/iemg/, there's at least 4 PR2 pictures posted each thread.

>>108026619
To flex the hearing loss, yes.

Stellaris and PR2 must be really good if you keep talking about them and posting pictures of them. I think I'll buy.

>>108026627
You're in good company here, welcome to deaf general.

>>108026627
Bought PR2, no need to EQ anymore because it made me deaf.

>>108026639
>>108026648
Deaf

Deafzo melty

Kiwi Ears Belle or Nicehck Tears? Leaning towards Belle

Wow. Another picture of a PR2 posted. /iemg/ is on fire.

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>>108026686
Stop whining and post more PR2s.

So many PR2s posted but nobody recommends them, curious.

>>108026719
PR2 thread.

PR2 won, hearing lost.

Guys I just got my PR2 and its like everything is super quiet now, even in real life. Is this normal?

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>>108026719
we've been reccing it.

>>108027174
needs juice. or, turn the volume up?

>>108027208
I'm already running it through a 400W speaker amp at max volume, I know planars need juice.

>got bullied about not EQing for a month
>the best he could muster is 2 shelf filters
>gets sniped by newfags discovering PEQ almost every thread
Being deafzo is suffering.

EQ is cope =x

>>108019573
>Budget
$20
>Intended use (media, source, environment)
Music listening (mostly vocals)
>Frequency response preference and music examples
Vocal jazz, j-indie, rock, Folk music
>Past gear and your thoughts on them
moondrop chu 2, Kinera Celest Wyvern Black, 7hz zero.

help me bros, I currenly have quarks 2 and ugh...

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>>108027480
what you want is something solid like the EA500LM

I cannot be the only one whose ear canals become really itchy when wearing IEMs. I clean them properly with a kit and all, but they still get itchy, how the fuck do you fix this? It isn't to the point where they're unusable, they just get itchy frequently, forcing me to scratch it or rub the tip against it hoping it stops itching

At the recommendation of another anon, I purchased some GK Kunten IEMs from 'GK Earphone Store' on AliExpress. I selected the 'No Mic' option. However, they've arrived with no cable. Has anyone else had this happen? As is typical for AliExpress, they want me to return the whole item for a refund and the seller is seemingly unwilling to just send the missing cable. Should I return the item or simply purchase a third-party cable? If so, which one?

I just bought a Moondrop Echo dongle and trying it for the first time the music plays but the vocals are so soft it's nearly inaudible, I can't find anyone else on the internet with this problem. Is think typical chink qc or did I just get a lemon?

>>108028369
You got lucky, if you listened to those you would go deaf for sure.

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waiting for my pr2 to arrive

Could you elaborate? I'm extremely uninformed when it comes to IEMs (which is why I asked for recommendations), I was simply looking for an alternative to the Sennheiser HD 599 SE, which is too bulky to wear for extended periods.

>>108028507
buy a pr2

>>108028369
>>108028437
>>108028557

Sorry, I didn't correctly quote the comment I was replying to above. Could you explain why the GK Kunten IEMs would make me go deaf but the KZ PR2 IEMs would be better option and avoid this?

>>108028593
Both will make you go deaf so feel free to choose either one.

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who here is keen for the upcoming Fiio SnowSky Echo Nano that was recently announced to be releasing this year?? :D

>>108028593
both valid options that will not make you go deaf, pr2 are the cheapest planar drivers, it has been said anecdotally that the pr2 will improve your hearing

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Tangzu brass tips currently 70% off thru coins. You can buy it for a literal penny if you include the weekly wednesday credit.

Just bought PR2 and my audiologist said I'm now legally deaf, anything I can do to fix this?

>>108026562
should've bought the variations

>>108028489
same

>>108028649
nice looking little players. too bad they only offer 3.5mm output. nice gadget nonetheless

>>108028844
You don't need anything other than 3.5.

>>108028900
you might not. I do.

>>108028946
My condolences.

PR2 tho

PR2 is my first planar, I got it cause I think they take EQ better than a single DD, is this true? Also is bass response good enough for enjoyment with a planar?

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>>108028697
>>108028603
>>108027174
>>108027256
>>108026644
>

>>108029186
it's even funnier that they post it and then get mad that it was posted

>>108029186
>I deliberately entered a thread full of the deaf and now I'm deaf

>>108028675
congratulations on being smart enough to use aliexpress properly, it's actually a high bar for this general. along with solving the new captcha, which almost killed /iemg/ actually

>>108028375
Maybe it has some PEQ out of the box, try resetting it.

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Cable sisters...

>>108031055
kek blind testing some of my most contrastive cables would be trivial

>you can EQ techs
Welp, that's settled then.
https://youtu.be/muZFCcMPFBc

>>108031187
Trivial to determine there's no difference, yeah.

>>108031423
>xhe thinks you can EQ occlusion effect and fix nonlinearities
lol!

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>>108022680
yes

>>108031926
>nonlinearities
what do you mean by that?
>occlusion
no you can’t eq occlusion/isolation…please tell me you’re not a sharur simp

>>108031984
>what do you mean by that?
distortion and compression, dumbass
>inb4 distortion is not relevant, but relevant enough to dismiss a study that the replicator had high THD

>no you can’t eq occlusion/isolation
they are part of the techs, so you cannot EQ techs
simple as

>>108031423
h****** l**

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>>108032116
You 100% can EQ techs up to a certain point, then you have to pay extra for THD.

>>108032386
You can actually just buy a 30db sinad dongle like the cayin r2r ones to add distortion to any pos.

Guys I used to have my dongle volume set at 31 but now I have it at 39...

>>108029175
>I think they take EQ better than a single DD.
DDs and planars eq differently.
and whether or not planars EQ "better" is completely subjective and dependant on what you're trying to accomplish in particular.
best example is taming bass bloat: taming 100-300Hz on a DD vs a planar yields different results.

>>108032950
>DDs and planars eq differently.
lmao

Do we like Moondrop Pill?

>>108031956
Mogged by Stellaris.

>>108031423
>if you like bass get audeze
Foxzo won

>>108033036
that's right. what do you have to contend with? they're entirely different types of transducers.
>>108033092
sexy

>>108033283
i have both, what you said is another audiophool myth

>>108033312
I have both as well and I'm going off experience. they don't eq the same. try harder?

>>108033325
they eq the same, based off experience and basic ee knowledge. deaf?

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why dont a lot more companies make red cables?

>>108033349
better let you take some time and cool off. no reason to get irate over this.
you know it's perfectly fine to be entirely wrong, right? you will, in fact, live lol.

and did you really just whip out 'basic electric engineering knowledge'?????????????
that refutes "planars and DD eq different"????
get the motherfuck the fuck outta here

>>108033373
Trashass color.

>>108033377
drink some tea and relax lol, so angry because you never read a book lmao
let me guess, you probably think cables are different because you hear a difference lool

The whole point of a planar is a planar wavefront hitting your ears to mimic speakers' interaction with the outer ear part of your HRTF. There is literally zero point to IEM planars since they do not interact with your ear anatomy in any way. They're also too small to really have a planar wavefront. In every sense IEM planars are just flat DDs but worse in every single way.

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>but how are planars worse
Planar IEMs universally have inferior quality control and channel matching compared to even cheap DDs. They have higher distortion and tend to have high amplitude high Q upper treble peaks, a more extreme version of the classic 10-11K DD treble peak. This is responsible for "planar zing" and why some anons say planars make you deaf.

>>108033586
>>108033677
this is the poorest rant i've read on /iemg/ and that's saying a lot

>>108033433
oh I get it now. next you'll tell me to read Poole, right? and don't deflect, nobody mentioned cables. it's too bad you're choosing ignorance, so I accept your concession.
>>108033677
>They have higher distortion
than DDs? holy fuck now you're actually trolling

>>108033763
Not an argument. I can also afford pads btw

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>>108033774
Sadly I am not.

>>108033793
>shitting out ASR charts
how does this help your case??
TIMELESS CAME OUT YEARS AGO. YOU REALLY THINK THAT POS IS THE EPITOME OF ALL PLANARS??

>>108033843
Considering planar driver design has not evolved in years... yes. Go ahead and prove me wrong.

>>108033843
KZ planars are worse than this. S08/MP145 era planars are as good as DDs.

>>108033774
>>108033843
Headpos law. IEMs are not headphones.

>>108033854
>>108033887
>>108033911
keep trying samefag. this is some low level trolling, even for a Sunday

>>108033774
the reasoning behind believing planars are different is the same as the reasoning behind believing cables bring audible differences

>>108033964
Still no argument I see.

>>108033964
Admit it. You saw that planar headphones have lower distortion than DD headphones and thought IEMs work the same way. You never even checked that $20 DD IEMs in fact beat both.

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>>108033427
but i like color coordinating my pos and cables because i live a mundane and pointless existence

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Are there cheap wireless earbuds with an acceptable sound? I'm not asking for premium sound, I just want all frequencies to be there, and quite flat response if possible, I mean no fatass bass or overly aggressive high.

I bought picrel because the comments on aliexpress were all like "they sound really great" etc, but it's unbelievable how bad the sound is... Mid are there but sound as if there was a compressor applied. Low and high frequencies are not lacking, they are just totally cut out, so much that I really thought they were defective or there was some hidden setting somewhere.

>>108033977
>cables bring audible differences
you're the only one who keeps bringing that up and conflating it with knowing a simple truth. you're trolling.
>>108033979
arguing what? you have a piss poor position, I accepted your concession already.

this really is a meme general

>>108034075
Arguing literally anything, instead of seething.

>>108034076
cute. deliberately trying to get a rise out of somebody by telling blatant bullshit lies is the W you've been waiting for all day, isn't it

>>108034081
>lies
Point to one.

>>108034075
same thing really, you talk out of your ass about planars, other audiotards talk out of their ass about cables

>>108034087
all of it. good day

>>108034123
So no argument then.

if i hear a difference using a different cable and you cant, then you're just deaf bro.

>>108034124
circle back to the previous posts. you're asking to repeat myself when you'll try to refute it again. that's literal insanity you dipshit troll.

>>108034141
Your previous posts literally also had no arguments. Seething is not an argument.

>>108034148
there it is. what are you, like 9??

>>108033373
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006175924411.html

>>108034163
Post literally one (1) argument please.

This general is more poor than usual today

>>108034180
It's definitely PooR2

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>>108033793

>>108034210
this but with everything

>>108034221
Post more PR2s

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>>108034226

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>>108034128
Fox cable sounds different(it has a DAC).

>>108034168
ohh!!!! you're the FR=everything person too, huh?
>post one measurement
is what your mantra is, yeah?

fuckin dodged a bullet with this asshole. whew

>two anons realize they're the only two frequent iemg posters
dumb as rocks

>>108034168
>>108034273
hello rat. it's always you. ew

>>108034278
Of course the chatgpt loser folds instantly.

>>108034278
I'm actually not, but maybe he was right about you. All of this huffing and puffing and seething and coping and not even one argument posted.

>>108034287
like I needed it today.
don't call anybody a loser when you're more fucked up about your own gender than anything audio related.

holy fuck man. I mean lady.

FR is obviously not everything, distortion also matters (planars have horrible distortion) as well as channel matching also matters (planars have horrible channel matching).

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>>108034300
You're scientifically proven to be a loser, don't shoot the messenger.

this is why you never talk to trannies.
they suck at coding. audio. being a person. having a brain is their larp

Isn't it hard being this mad every day?

>>108034312
bahahahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahahahah

>"planars have lower than distortion than DDs"
>now they don't, retard
>"ur gay"
What is this mental illness called?

>"planars have higher distortion than DDs"
>*shows concrete proof*
>nuh uh ur 9
What is this mental illness called?

>>108034342
being a dumb fuck

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>posted 0 measurements
>refuted 0 measurements

>>108034351
>concrete proof
7Hz Timeless is one pos from goddamn years ago. I keep telling you to try, try again, but you're stuck. in 2019 of all places...
damn trannies are dumb

>>108034481
Planar drivers have not improved since then.

>>108034481
Ask chatgpt how many IEMs use timeless drivers.

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>"bro that planar is too old!!!"
>shills a planar with worse distortion than balanced ass drivers
o no no no

>>108034511
Aaaand that's a wrap.

>>108034511
>pos with 4% thd at 1khz
BAGods...
i kneel...

>>108034511
this is 4 revisions old, the PR2 this thread has was released last year

>>108034396
that's this general's bread and butter

>>108034805
>audio nihilism
ftfy

>>108034789
The difference is they took out the damping so the distortion is even worse.

Brutal day to be a PR2 owner.

>>108028675
>>108029418
I must be retarded then cause I have so many coins I probably couldve been saving alot of money on stuff I bought recently. I do have the savers thing active as well, but would love to know how you basically got these for free

>>108034863
they replaced the mesh with tweaking the PCB itself. you really have no clue what you're spewing

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>no no no they stealth revised to be better actually

>>108035600
did you ever post your shit?

>>108035600
for PR2 unironically true

>>108034511
look at all those techs

>>108033373
myu pair should be here in like a week or so

>>108035603
yes >>108034254

>>108035659
looks like ZVX or PRX

>>108034516
>>108034530
>>108034885
Chu2 won.

>can't handle opposing opinions
>low emotional control
>can't process nuance, handle ambiguity, or hold two ideas at the same time.
>instead of understanding complexity, they label people as good or bad, ideas as true or fake, and that's it.
>no depth, no flexibility. just a simple world for a simple mind.
low-IQ. that's what you get when you let a tranny run this place.

>>108035345
If you value your POS that much then go ahead and prove everyone wrong by measuring it yourself.

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Today we learned price is inverse to driver quality. Congratulations, Chu2 once again.

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Get in here Chu2 chads, we won another thread

>2026
>0 good releases
is it over??

>>108035970
wait for PR2v3.2

How do ChuGAWDS keep winning?

>>108036013
Lowest THD for a $5 shitbud. Mogs all other pos

>>108035773
but enough about the pr2 shill

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Post your Chu2

>pr2zo so utterly raped hes larping as chuzo now
brutal...

if J.E. taught us anything, it's that the probability of one schizo powering all of /iemg/ is very high and plausible

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>>108036214
but who powers the schizo who powers all of /iemg/?

>>108036214
Bro has to switch up every few months as the gear he's shilling gets exposed as utter shit. Its kind of crazy how he hasn't hit anything good yet even out of random chance.

>>108036238
we'll be back to pr2 fotm in 2 weeks after 14 days of chu2 spamming

best iem tips? also best way to clean them

I love Merry-go-rounds

a secret elite cabal of chinese investors and audio titans have managed to infiltrate and influence all circles of audio under our very nose, and trained armies to fight others and themselves to benefit their own gains. we are pawns, manufactured and used to their liking

don't be surprised if you find me deaf and head-dented by next week, i warned you all

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wankerzos, our tots??

>>108036722
every iem is bass edition when you move a bar. why pay more?

>>108036369
everyone loses except for aliexpress, who loses money giving us iems and iem accessories for free. aliexpress won.

>>108036857
>try iphone
cry cuz no eq
>try ps5 controller
cry cuz no eq
>bitperfect
cry cuz OS eq stops working

good stock > eqslaves

>>108036910
trn black pearl doesn't have this problem

>>108035828
BAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

>>108036910
yeah thats a skill issue

>>108036971
nta but know what else is a skill issue? believing planar drivers are mechanically the same as dynamic drivers.

>>108037066
true, planars are objectively inferior in iems

>>108037066
no, they are worse >>108034511

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im not autistic enough for this shit

>>108037112
wow dumbass coefficient #5 is WAY off!! how the FUCK did you even get to that value??? you obviously haven't read a damn book to have to fuck up that epically, sheesh.

>>108035970
P40

>>108035970
glad I bought all my pos in 2025, only bought a pr2 in 2026, I think it's over, innovation and price competitive behavior has dwindled, 20$ pos is all you need

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what a beauty

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my endgame dap is arriving in 4 days!!!
7th gen classic (1TB iFlash, 3k mAh), excited to install rockbox on it straight away Nnnnggg

>>108025723
>Furry
>Lurks in korean basketweaving site all day
>Lurks in /g/ of all places
>somehow room is spiffy clean

>>108034045
Moondrop Space Travel II
QCY Melobuds Pro (if you want LDAC)

I got my ER2XRs for $60 new. Did I do good?

>>108037547
It doesn't sound great, everything else is pretty good.

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>>108037547
>samsung but worse
ok so no good releases yet

>>108040267
better bass but otherwise wholly unimpressive Shartman faggotry

Anyone tried Nice Buds?

How do I upscale from an Aria Snow? Usually just listen to hip-hop/trap if that helps. Under 100 usd preferably

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>>108035659
>>108034254
wow you're blind and deaf

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post some actual PR2s my niggas

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has anyone tried a hearing aid dry box for their iems?
hearing aids have the same condensation issues

>>108040678
Imagine using this shit for your ~$20 pos mwahahahah

>>108040687
my $20 pos sound better than my $1000 hearing aid

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>>108040678
Been using a dryer from ali for almost 2 years, no clogging so far.

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/iemg/: 8 people

>>108040900
8 but sideways for infinity.

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>>108040900
Wow, they must have some great resources about audio on there.

>>108040561
EA500LM for 1DD under $100

ANYONE FUCKING TRIED NICE BUDS?!

>>108041688
lul no.
There’s a few reviews. Graphs like it has negative bass but apparently it’s not that thin sounding just mid centric

>>108041688
They are 50% better than vidos for 400% the price.

>>108040900
8 people but a few of them have multiple headmates so >>108040933

I have some crinear daybreaks. What dac should I get for desktop use? Ideally a small one cause I might be moving around with it sometimes

>>108041835
protocol max is the most obvious pairing for daybreaks. enjoy

>>108042066
you should be listening to Peeling Flesh instead.

>>108042103
Waking the Cadaver hours

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why does every chifi POS have no mids and super 1.5khz-2khz uptilt but free airline buds all have endgame core mids and no upper mid shout?

>>108042248
PF is all that matters in 2026. everything else is just a waste of time

>>108042249
Aircraft companies spend more on r&d and keep the prices low through the economies of scale. Filosofem's fantastic vocal quality was made possible by a helicopter mic.

My Moondrop May's left ear died suddenly after a year of use, what do I replace them with that's around the same price?

Thoughts on se846s with white filters? Are they bad now (or always was?). I now enjoy my SHS9500s but I don't know about se846s. I got those like 10 years ago but I don't daily drive them, airpods pro 3 is easier to setup.

>>108042457
MoonDROPPED QC

>>108042457
May got replaced by Rays. If you want something different state what you dislike about them.
>>108042578
BAs are terrible for bass, any modern pos will be better.

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>>108035837
Wait until you learn price is inverse to amp and DAC quality too.

>>108043390
>>108043390
>>108043390