The sub 200$ IEM market is just flooded with so many options that it’s nearly impossible to decide on an IEM. Even when you narrow it down your sound preferences you have minimum 10 options with slight variations between each other. For example, some fit your sound preferences but have large nozzles which causes discomfort (Zero: Red). The IE200s are extremely comfortable but it took so much of effort from tape mod, tip rolling and cable change to be worth it. On the sound aspect, we have planars, single DD, hybrids (DD + BAs) with each of them tuned very similarly with some differences in technical performances and overall characteristics. Some of them does bass + mid well but lack in treble others do the opposite. The 7Hz Timeless does everything good enough but timbre does sound unnatural in certain tracks.
Do we have too many options with IEMs now that it causing choice overload? How do you typically decide on IEMs if you don’t have the option to demo them before buying?
Akros just waffles on far too long without getting to the point.
It’s unfortunate as he has heard a lot and can have some reasonable insights, he’s not like someone like Zeos who also waffles on but as well as waffling on is just a total hype man with has nothing to say of actual interest. Akros is not a total hype man and can have stuff of actual interest but it’s just buried.
He needs an editor and to learn the art of brevity. Keep it to 10 minutes, plus, chapters. It would also help if he got his Squig site up so he could refer to the graphs on that, with labels, rather than just the dates he has in REW (why he doesn’t label the measurements with the actual IEM names I don’t know).
I’d like to watch him more, but I just can’t… it’s droning on for 30, 40 minutes and trying to pick out the few nuggets from that… I can’t.