Hey everyone, I recently released my first collaboration IEM, the DUNU Mirai, so I thought it’d be a fun opportunity to answer some questions about what shaped its development. I’ll also be happy to take questions about anything else pertaining to audio!
I would like to pick your brain from an IEM knowledge perspective if that is okay. In my journey I went up to the $1k range and back down to settle into the Moondrop Kato. It took that journey for me to realize that I needed the longer nozzles on the Kato to get the fitament correct. Turns out for me to get the same sound that the reviewers talk about, Its just what my ears need. I did try Eytomotic but it was too far and unsettling. Do you know of any other IEM that have a similar fit/long nozzle like the Kato that are not so far as to by Eytomotic?
Will you include your signed workout pics in the box?
Also why Dunu?
When are you going to send your good buddy Fc-Construct a Mirai?
You guys are sponsored be Headphones.com and get your equipment for anything you test from there, can you explain further how that works? How long do you have a product before you have to send it back? Then what happens with it, is it cleaned and sold as a new product or cleaned and sold as an open box product?
Sure, so the units are often sourced from our own stock (Headphones.com pays for it) or they come directly from manufacturers. Reviewers often have them for a couple weeks (sometimes longer, if it’s not high-priority) before they’re sent back to HQ or passed onto the next reviewer. We do keep a couple on-hand long-term for reference sometimes (for example, I’ve had a U6t from them for a couple years haha).
I’m not 100% sure what happens to the units after, I think some do end up as open box if they’re super clean (and sourced from our own stock) but most of them are just kept around as references.
Hello, i love your target honestly. And for the iems, its good to see this bass shelf, treble can be fixed with eq but for the 1k usd you should not have these peaks and dips and use the eq. It will be good the see a review about technicals.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, why doesn’t Headphones.com open a physical store? Normally audiophile headphones stores aren’t successful, people come to try headphones but buy them online as Amazon has a better return policy and it can be easier and more convenient. But Headphones.com is a major headphones store, so people can just buy in store as it’s exactly like buying online, it should still have the 365 day return policy, allow them to return them online, and people who bought them online can return in person. This will not have any shipping time and no chance of damage from shipping, so people will be interested. Obviously starting with only 1 physical store and after seeing the success of that determine what to do with this idea.
Why do you prefer IEMs to headphones? I’ve been unimpressed by most iems I’ve tried, and the only good thing I can say about IEM sound is that the intimate vocals can be more engaging at times. Everything else, especially stage and resolution, seems so much worse compared to headphones.