Get a beyer excelento 👌

Huh, added slightly denser foam to the nozzle on my BA drivers in my ZST's

They actually sound okay now that my ears aren't ringing.

Guess density of the foam matters

Still don't know why KZ would put the fucking BA's right at the end of the nozzle

the guy that designs their iems used to work for audio technica

😏

lul

I got the Quadbeats in the mail

For $7.95 they are NOT BAD

eons above piston fresh lmfaoo

ya theyre really good for 8 bux

Added some $15 bluetooth earbuds to my order. I expect nothing except to be disappointed

Which ones?

@HEKTIK they're nice and have literally 0 business being this good but at the same time they made me realise how much I hate Vshaped IEMs

kek

ya flat is justice

you can plug the ports near the cable and pull down the bass by like 3-4db

brb

srs the bass overpowers a bunch of the spectrum

ya

And they're not the clearest IEMs but they're eons above piston fresh

She'll be right until I get my Tin's back

i kinda wanna make a 2dd hybrid with em because the DF curve is stupid good

DF?

even 2dd+ba and just tune the ba to like 10k+

diffuse field

nigbass on the quadbeat

same upper midrange/low treble hump as ety

It's even smoother

lol

But yeah

They're pretty good imo

ya they cant be beat for $8 imo unless you really dont want bass

or hate diffuse field

Call me a retard but I put the bass down a little using AudioFX on Lineage

makes sense

i dont like eq because i swap devices and sources and transducers too much so it just isnt viable for the most part

My Nexus 5X is my tidal player and that's all I use IEMs for

kek

i wonder how much the bass bloat could be solved with some mass loading or something

since its actually a decent bass curve, its just got way too long of a decay

slap some sorbothane in that bitch

I pretty much copied the settings in Foobar so I could use it with my 20GB FLAC collection on a 128GB SSD <:wholesomethonk:373550351082848267>

even though i ripped a gash in my zs5

i might make it bigegr

and keep sanding it down

open back zs5

yeah maybe

GUYS

first ZS10 super HYPE POST on head-fi

```Well, I read some Japanese review, asked a Chinese friend of mine who got zs10...

And all of them claimed that "Knowledge Zenith", nailed the market seriously.

It came near to Noble Django($999) in technicality and is a little off tuned(but simply to great for chi fi) compared to noble Django.

Well he said

*compared to django

Bass is a little loose but is extending to deep and is linear.

Mids are fantastic

Treble is very good but some roughness(it is smooth overall).
```

lol

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/best-sub-100-chinese-earphones-hidden-gems-best-deals-and-impressions-sharing-reference-list.805930/page-611#post-14170885

maybe kz have done it thsi tyime

have KZ done it lads

http://www.thephonograph.net/kz-zs10-review/

a realreview here

have they finally not put the ba so close to your ear it hurts

fuck i wnat a pair

eugh

itll probably still be shit

you know these thousand dollar iems

aren't really all that much different

at least the BA isnt in the nozzle this time

i don't even think you can objectively say they sound better

just different

it depends on how youve defined the objective

@bentech that guy is known to be a total gronk lol

the head fi guy or phonograph?

headfi

o he's just quoting someone

eugh kz still did the 2x 30095

but wtf is a "50060"

are they real knowles BAs?

knowles dont make none of them

no

@Rorset😔🤙🥀𝔊𝔅ℭ 𝐸𝑇𝐸𝑅𝑁𝐴𝐿💔 itll be a bellsing oem or some other clone

i think you can get chi fi with knowles

its just $$

you can

tbh bellsing isnt bad

iirc theyre an OEM for knowles so theyre probably just dumping lesser binned BA's

```From what I've heard from Hong Kong forums(tons of people already receive their zs10 from Taobao)
The treble of ZS10 is not as harsh as ZS5/6 and it has a warm sound signature. The resolution of ZS10 is very good but due to the reduced treble it may not too good for people tend to listen to more airly and high-pitch female songs.

One of the big upgrade is the cable that KZ has upgrade their cable to "oxygen-free copper cable) with a much better memory wire.But in terms of the comfort, ZS10 has the largest size in KZ earphone to date while having the shortest nozzle. Some people has reported that it tends to fall off easily due to the latter problem.
(I may try the ZS10 later and give my own impression afterwards)
```

so yeah they sound like a fixed zs6

they moved the ba's back and put them on some actual tubing so they shouldnt be so harsh

and crossovers mean youll get less phasing issues

i cant believe they jsut put them straight into your ear tbh

the zs6

eh

I might give the ZS10 a try, eventually.

its kind of a half assed approach

Things sound p good

do the foam mod

either you go far enough in like etys to eliminate canal volume so you get no resonance, or you pull them back and run them through dampers and tubing so the resonance spreads out

ZS5/6/T all half assed it and just stuck it in the nozzle

which means you get the worst of both worlds

its good that they finally tried to fix it with the zs10 but im still not too confident