Finally the best iem comparison on yt 👏 🙌

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video and comparison as always! I just gotta say if your going to buy through the site he got most of these from, be sure to really look over your stuff because I was sold a almost brand new Evo that had cracked shells, that was inspected by the guy he named at that store. So just a heads up to check your stuff!

Thank you very much for this review. This is probably the best audio gear review I have seen. I can feel that you spent a lot of time with your gear and you are great at explaining why you prefer one to another. I came here to verify an earlier decision. I owned both EE Evo and Odin and knew (feared?) that the Odin had better technicalities. Nevertheless I sold it since I found it too shouty especially with older recordings. I kept the Evo instead. Now I missed the airiness of the Odin but you reminded me why I sold it. Plus, thanks for not trashing the Evo as most other reviewers :)

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy

Wonderful work, THANK YOU! Would love to see you review the Fusang/Red Halo/Mentor/Multiverse and the new campfire stuff and compare to the above. Can't wait for my custom Jewels.

Wow...Incredible comparison mate!!

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

🙏🏻

I only tried 3 of them, and I agreed very single point you mentioned.. SUPERRRR AWESOMEEEEE review, dont think I can find these iem comparison with such detailed explanation... ^.^V

talking about resolution and tonality, I think ThieAudio Monarch MKii is pretty amazing for the price. neutral and natural sounding monitor with huge resolution. one needs to find the right ear tips to scale down the note size to get a better imaging or "head-view"

@CoffeeXmusic

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Sadly the size caused my outer ears to hurt, even after trying out various ear tips. So I have to let it go after a few weeks.

Nice comparison, and yes Andrew at MusicTeck is fabulous!

@amplifyaudioreviews

10 ай бұрын

He is indeed awesome

I've got the Mest MK2, EVO, and RN6. The Jewell for that money is insane it has such a gaping chasm in its treble. The UM Multi Verse also has a hole that's unacceptable for 4K+. The Annihilator 2023 looks almost perfect but good luck getting your hands on one and if the 2024 will maintain or go more "unique" in tuning. Trailli was perfect for its time but is getting encroached on by progress! I'd hold on to that baby until the drivers fail.

Brilliant comparison. Would suggest referring to the iem rather than pointing alone for those of us who stream audio whilst not watching the video

Great review. Would be nice to see fir audio xe6 compared against these.

It's about time for another shootout...

Great review. I am following you from ZMF and table top to DAPs and IEMs. While you had the neck motivation mine is travel. Loved your reviews on the other side and you picked right up here. Quick question. With the SONY that you like can you EQ the Odin to approach the sound of the Traillii? If not, would the Traillii be good for vocals and pop as well as old rock not well made and then the Odin for classical and jazz?

Great comparison. I’m at a crossroad of whether to go for the Jewell or Odin or go for a headphone like the lcd 5

Great video! Are you finding more enjoyment with your IEM collection or headphone collection?

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

IEMs working out well so far!

How do you feel these compared to your headphone collection.Obviously excluding convenience and portability.Curious more about the sound differences

Hey there! How would the Qdc Anole VX compare to these in terms of resolution? Greetings & great Video!!!

The Odin and Raven are the best choice for me looking for fun non boring tonality the Traili and Jewel are the ones that are boring for me as the bass is very light

Good to know the volume you test it. The louder the volume, the less upper mids and treble we want

You didn’t like the u12t because of BA bass, or the analogish soft sound? Nice review though i haven’t heard any of these

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

The softer sound mostly

which would be great for death metal, rock genres? thanks!

Great video! Thank you. Maybe one day you can review MAD24?

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Sure!

I'm sure those IEMs are as sonically beautiful as that Klimt painting.

Awesome Video! How do you think Final A8000 fares against these ?

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

It gets close for sure. 90%. Roughly.

IEM prices these days are nuts. And I say that as an owner of the Odins. I remember when $800ish IEMs were considered insanely priced and the upper tier (granted those would now be over 1k with normal inflation). Now those are "budget" or "low-mid tier". It's crazy. You can get some damn good speakers, especially monitors, 1-2k and especially for 3k and up (I know, I have several and my main speakers, which cost about 20k, are only about twice as much as the most expensive IEMs I've seen). What does it cost to make these IEMs...$500 at most for the most expensive ones? I do really enjoy my Odins in my bedroom setup (no cans, much less speakers, in there with the girlfriend next to me) and occasional desktop use, but I'm fully aware that I'm still a huge sucker for spending that much on IEMs (even headphones at that price is insane, and yes, even spending thousands on speakers, much less 20k, is crazy and a ripoff), and that's after I sold the cable as I'm not wasting a grand on hocus pocus (I bought a $70 cable that sounds, of course, the same and is more comfortable). They sound significantly better than my OG MESTs (that I have for portable use), but not 3 times as much, although twice as much (which is about the final cost of my Odins because I sold the 1k cable of course) is somewhat reasonable. (Amps I use for my IEMs/headphones is the Ferrum Oor and Schitt Lyr+). But the thing is, in music or audio reproduction it's Live>Speakers>Headphones>IEMs. You just keep losing the realism and scale as you go down that chain and the hard limits of physics will never change no matter what pseudoscience tech marketing and reviewers say. So even good 1-2k speakers will sound better than the most expensive headphones and especially IEMs (and I've heard those and even own the aforementioned Odin and a Susuvara). You get a feeling of "you are there" with speakers that will always be greatly diminished via smaller transducers which just can't recreate the grandness and sound stage/imaging "pick instruments out of the air" of the music. So I only use headphones/IEMs when I have to: when it's quiet time in the house or for portable use. Though I enjoy them, and there is something to be said for the more intimate "my own world" sound they create, they just can't compete with speakers for sheer realism, scale, and a "pin you in your chair in astonishment" sound (much less body shaking bass; and I'm not basshead). tl;dr : If living conditions allow it, don't spend 3-5k on headphones much less IEMs; you can buy an amp, DAC (remember that all decent DACs sound the same) and good speakers for that which will blow away any headphone/IEM setup.

@XenogearsPS

Жыл бұрын

yeah I bought a dac and iem for a total of 600 bucks (ebay fiio fh7). The left side of the iem was damaged and made scratchy noises, but the right side was fine.. anyways it was still a good representation of what you will be getting with iems. I'm confident my speaker setup will just blow iems away. Speakers reproduce that air pressure and sound stage as if you are there live. LIve can be better, but it just has a different vibe, not so much better sound quality tbh. I'm just thankful I didn't spend a crazy amount of money on the iems.

Wish I can lend you my um fabled sounds iem to review. Incredible iem

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

You can! Would love to check it out! sh2367@caa.columbia.edu

@khhoaiii

Жыл бұрын

I’m a mailman and listen to music 10 hours day. I use more of the um fabled sounds. It’s the same as the UM halo red (different shell). The vocal is on par with trailli with better bass and imaging.

Hello there! Which ones do you think are the best for instrumental music?

@conceptcar03

Жыл бұрын

Jewel

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For the treble the mk2 is a bit to much for me. I like mic set natural.

Hey what would you recommend as best pairing of tips,cable and source for the most mk2 ? ( would appreciate if they aren’t too expensive) I got them as my first high end set and would like to maximise the SQ especially make the vocals and notes a bit thicker which people say are a bit thin . ( they are in transit should reach me on 10th)

Any thoughts on comparing housing durability?

"MEST has a *lot* of treble energy". Exactly why I returned it. All hype, no delivery. Just a bunch of treble.

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Exactly why I like it. Needs the right source pairing.

I used to own mest Mk2 and regreted for selling it. However, after I demoed UM Mason FS and Multiverse Mentor, I won't buy Mk2 again until I can afford Mason FS or Mentor. Reason being that Mest Mk2 is great, but only marginally better than what I am using now (Z1R, excpet for the bass, Z1R is better). Mason FS or Mentor are way better in the Mids, very thick and full bodied Mids. Even with all BA (+ BCD), the Mentor has more exciting bass than Mest Mk2. Mason FS and Mentor are the best IEMs I ever heard in term of Mids performance. You won't believe Mentor has only BA bass. Odyssey is better than both EVO or Odin, kinda of child of those two. However, with my short demo of Jewel and Traillii, I was not impressed, they are good but not blew me away kinda great. For the monay I have to pay, I do expect those attributes. Maybe those need more time to appreciate.

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Oh cool. I prefer the Odin to the Odyssey.

@townofdudleysixth

Жыл бұрын

@@amplifyaudioreviews what's the difference between the two?

This sort of comparison is fantastic because it's the best way to gauge the actual value for IEMs. I think if you did price ranges more relevant to the general IEM fans (I would say everything under the kilobuck range) your reviews and comparisons would be 100 times more helpful. It just isn't realistic for the 99% of us to go past $1k and with your knowledge/experience it'd go a long way to cater the 99% instead of the 1% like this

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Fair point. What IEMs do you recommend I review? Feel free to email me a list: sh2367@caa.columbia.edu

This video is brought by MEST

UM Mest Mk1 has more resolution than the Mk2. The Mest Mk2 has more bass (sub-bass) but the Mest 2 looses in detail.

@theodorezurla496

Жыл бұрын

No

@amplifyaudioreviews

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Another guy I know who owns the MK1 told me that but its not true, I believe. 🙏🏻

@theodorezurla496

Жыл бұрын

@@amplifyaudioreviews it’s a slight change in tuning not a degrade in resolution or detail

@nikolaygramchev

Жыл бұрын

@@theodorezurla496 It is not only my opinion and experience (I did A-B them) but also others (reviews, ranking)

@theodorezurla496

Жыл бұрын

@@nikolaygramchev and other reviewers will say the opposite as you and prefer, the Mest mk 2 such as bgga or crinicle or cmo or myself. I understand your opinion, but don’t state it as facts when it is not. Having more emphasis on treble and less on bass doesn’t mean it has more resolution or detail

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Skimmed through the vid and didn't see frequency response graphs, meaning this review is just subjective garbage like most audio review's

@shaunbrady15

29 күн бұрын

So graphs don’t tell you much. I’d rather hear what they actually sound like in ear

@krustyegirl7334

27 күн бұрын

@@shaunbrady15 the point of a review is to tell you how they sound before you get them, a frequency response graph does this very well while a subject "treble too spiky" is vague and could be many things.

Simphonio rx10 is just better than this bullshit

Mest MK2 was on sale for a few days @ $900 but it's back to $1500

@PantsaBear

Жыл бұрын

@@dbean5174 I just copped the 3.5mm mest mk2 for $950 on MusicTeck this week (like new), and when they arrived the box was literally wrapped in shrink wrap with like 1 or 2 small holes in the shrink wrap. If you told me they were brand new, I wouldve been totally fine with these lol, they sound pretty incredible (especially any vocals) and there was no blemish or missing parts for anything. Box was in perfect condition, not even scratched Im sure these other IEMs sound amazing, but I cant imagine ever paying $2k to $4k on an IEM when these sound so good for under $1k in my case

@1as130

Жыл бұрын

purchases the like new for 999 and reshelled it for custom thru UM for $280 so it comes out to be “new” again

@ChaseHub

Жыл бұрын

@@1as130 How ya liking custom vs universal?