Message from @Windatica
Discord ID: 437353440163790868
```It was an eye opening adventure to discover all these off brand and relatively inexpensive brands.
Was there a golden bullet like everyone is hoping for?
Not really and no real outstanding favorite for me out of all those I listed above (doesn't include all the KZ models (ATE/ATR/ZST/ZSR/ZS3/ED9) I tried as well)
but i was impressed at what you can get for cheap if you do the research and stay off the name brand blogs which never talk about any of the brands I was exposed to through the Headfi blogs.
So thanks
In the end I settled up by picking up the made in Oregon Campfire Comets.
Something about buying those and the little PA2V2 from Gary over at Electric Avenues in New York State
even things out for me.
```
just go straight to campfire :^)
ya i dont blame him
i made the same conclusion
skip KZ
yeah you can get okay-ish IEMs for cheap. But holy fuck
those memes
never buy anything KZ ever again
(ED9 isn't that good)
if your wondering what he tried
```They included:
TIN Audio T2
LKER i8
DZAT DF-10
Zero Audio Carbo Tenore
HE 150PRO 150ohm
Shozy Hibiki
FAAEAL Snow Lepord 64ohm
Yersen FEN-2000
```
friendship with KZ ruined, friendship with shure and westone now
fuck me carbo tenores are only $55 CAD?
I'm getting that then
```You should not buy iem on just mere suggestion....first know about yourself and what signature you like...everybody can't respect etymotic er4....to me, it sounded anaemic in bass and to thin....until ety released er4xr and I stole it from my friend(reimbursed him by getting him another pair on discount days)...
```
LOL
stole it
LOL
I STOLE IT
```first know about yourself ```
```I stole it```
where can i get a sound signature like that
this guy is a fucking living meme
first you combine every kz earphone into one another
LOL
```The biggest upgrade we can give to our earphones is listening to them in absolutely silence. Yesterday i was rocking my cm5 at dawn. 2:00 AM listening to details that i've never listened in a recent album of mine. Not because of the iem. But because of the silence. It's a completely different experience.
```
no shit???
then you throw in a bit of faeeal
then some other shit iems
and smoke it
Then you'll be this guy
```
VS TINAUDIO T2 :
I really like how the T2 sound, less so how they fit my ears, but anyway, both this IEM have great construction that is very rare to find in sub-50$ IEM. I feel the Z5000 win in this section because of type of metal used, it happen that I drop them and its like droping a little rock, i’m never afraid they will break, with T2 if I step on it it will surely break, not with Z5000, even an elefant would not be able to break this little tank and i’m not joking.```
wat
there you go
``` It's like dropping little rock ```
how do ppl use this site dude
its impossible
thse look cool