ya maybe because he's a 🅱head

@Droidbot I think you were right regarding the KZ bluetooth cable. Tried the second one this morning and it seems nowhere near as bad. Pretty comfy tbh

zener diodes came in

will probably mod the bm-800 over the weekend

The B150 were going for 38$ on the Cyber Monday. I bought a pair that never arrived, thanks Brainvawz

An there are a lot of people saying that the B100 may be the best sub 80$ iem. They got a neutral-warm sound signature

And my Tin T2s are going to arrive tomorrow, hype

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/best-sub-100-chinese-earphones-hidden-gems-best-deals-and-impressions-sharing-reference-list.805930/page-446#post-14025409

lol

those burn in instructions r insane

@bentech
>headfi

@bentech t2's aren't neutral

Just ignore headfi they're actually spuds

idk why i read it tbh lol

im so tempted to get that smsl idea

It measures nice at least

ordered

this thnkpad x230 has the worst dac eve

rlike

if you set the windows volume low

bass is just gone

```Considering this info, many sources provide enough power with low distortion to drive ZS5 v1.
The only ones which can't drive them properly are cheap DAPs like Benjie, or many smartphones, or weak amplifiers (and they are just fair with ZS6).
```

are the zs5 v1 that hard to drive?

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/smsl-idea-portable-dac-amp.851110/page-17#post-13819966

no

zs5 aren't hard to drive, but they're slightly ever so harder than most things i have

so hard, so stronk

i feel like reading head fi is making me more stupid

It is

The chifi threads are purely massive hype machine echoboxes

when testing zs5 with MINT chinese incense, i can really feel the highs enter my brain and kill me

Yeah trying to get any sense out of the KZ impressions thread is ridiculous

I realised that any headfi thread with more than 10 pages is just degeneracy

you should really only be trusting objective headphone reviews where you can compare frequency response, tonality, etc.

tis why I like audiobudget

he has lots of chinky iems and the frequency response is an easy comparison tool to take away the cruft of his opinion

It's a shame his page literally looks like spam

I have been reading through it

I don't really bother with frequency response graphs lol

Graphs will tell you if something is obviously fucked, or if it has a stronger chance of being good, but after that you should rely on your ears

Of course