Special thanks to Linsoul, ShenzhenAudio, Yaoyaotiger, Unique Melody, KBEar, ikko, Shanling, and Fatfreq for daring to have their stuff ran through the gauntlet! Links in the description are based on whoever sent me whatever. Also if you aren't aware, 100K giveaway still ongoing: crinacle.com/100k2

@WorkHard271

Жыл бұрын

What are the best wired IEMs for sound and microphone?

@WorkHard271

Жыл бұрын

Under $500. 😂😂😂

@user-ln7cf1mr4q

Жыл бұрын

@@WorkHard271 just get a microphone and iem seperately...

@WorkHard271

Жыл бұрын

For convenience. Say on the go with a laptop on a plane or in a public setting.

@user-ln7cf1mr4q

Жыл бұрын

@@WorkHard271 get a lavalier if you really care about microphone sound. i'd reccomend blessing 2 by moondrop

It's the iem equivalent of dankpods nugget lucky dip

@KevinEnjoyer

Жыл бұрын

This is the IEM lucky dip!

@tranthien3932

Жыл бұрын

And that opening as well

@Fataha22

Жыл бұрын

A thousand dollars+ lucky dip

@thedynamix4714

Жыл бұрын

We need a one grit here

@Plucks_IEM_Wonderland

Жыл бұрын

I would be surprised if no one mentions this in the comment.

I love that Crin's authority as an audio expert just allows him to have a casual bag of iem's worth $10,000.

@DaffyduckNZ

Жыл бұрын

Its not even the fact that he has the bag its more the fact that he just stuffed them all in there 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@n.o.b.s.8458

Жыл бұрын

Yeah man having a $15000 bag of iem’s is a pretty big flex.

@oldfag_adventures

Жыл бұрын

i feel like once you're deep enough into most hobbies it gets to that point

@amarujuancoiz4287

Жыл бұрын

@@n.o.b.s.8458 ye $24000 is a lot of money

@bojan6368

11 ай бұрын

@@oldfag_adventures Agreed, I've spent around 15k this year on hi-fi T.T

I rate this bag 5/5 - has potential.

@roginus

Жыл бұрын

feels bloated with all those iems inside of it

@handlemonium

Жыл бұрын

At this point IEM brands are just spitting out random models with wildly varying tuning (balanced, neutral, flat, V, bass-mids-treble heavy, optimizing it for best audio technicality, etc) tuning ranging anywhere from $60 to $600 and hoping one of their half-dozen new offerings become a runaway hit. Hopefully they all cost similarly to manufacture so they'll make a profit on the 1-2 models that do end up selling well.

Need like an audiophile version of storage wars where audio reviewers bid on bags of random iems and see which bag sucks the least

@krayozmines

Жыл бұрын

THIS is a show I would binge

@georgehoyle8797

Жыл бұрын

Someone is gonna end up with a bunch of skull candy earbuds from 2014 and I’m gonna Cackle like a witch as we watch them listen to it blindfolded.

@Neojhun

Жыл бұрын

One of the bags is Dank Pod's spare nugget lucky dip bag.

The moment crin realized he had to untangle the cables was an instant regret

_"because the audiophile community is a bunch of toxic douchbags"_ Spot on Crinicle, and that's why I love watching your videos because while I'm not a massive IEM listener, I am a large basshead and you have bass tunings too and aren't afraid to voice your actual opinions. Being honest I feel you've made the whole experience more enjoyable and it's now more acceptable to say you like bass or like EQ than it was before you came onto the KZread scene.

@isaacapeltz

Жыл бұрын

I liked the video right after he said this.

@thevashfan12392

Жыл бұрын

Probably why I left. I am closing the chapter after my last setup is done and moving on. Just don't ask for proof if changing cables really changes anything. All you'll get is testimony and no evidence.

@8lec_R

Жыл бұрын

@@thevashfan12392 you should watch the audio science review channel. Amir does cover a lot of the snake oil. It's very therapeutic to see him absolutely tear apart all the bullshit in the most polite manner

@paulomunozartavia2282

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if I can consider myself an audiophile, but the reason I don’t like most of the community is: everyone believes only they are right, while being in one of the most subjective hobbies to be in. I mean, even the size or shape of your ears may affect how you hear things, and thus having the possibility to lean towards certain sound signatures, but they will just call you and your taste trash bc you don’t like what they like or viceversa. That’s why I (personally) just try to enjoy it alone, and all I really watch/read are DankPods or Crin

@rabywastaken

Жыл бұрын

Wait fr? Every time I go on his discord people seem very chill 🤔

Much more useful than the old farts who claim you need 2000 hours of burn-in per day and at least 300 hours of listening a week for 2 centuries to know what a headphone is truly capable of.

@mndlessdrwer

Жыл бұрын

Yep. If your IEMs sound like shit when you first listen to them, then they definitely won't miraculously become a good set with additional time. The mechanics of micro-drivers like those used in earphones basically rules out burn-in as a serious contributor to driver performance changes. It likely is a thing, but it would also happen over the first few minutes to an hour of listening. You aren't dealing with large voice coils with stiff spiders and surrounds that need time to break in. You're dealing with drivers that have diaphragms and surrounds that are measured in micrometers of thickness and there is no spider. I think the beryllium foil dynamic drivers may be one of the few that could feasibly claim burn-in as a thing, but even then I'd be skeptical as hell. Long story short, the spoiled milk analogy is his favorite for a reason. If your set sounds like shit, then don't keep trying to make them work. Just return them and get something better.

@OnamazuKuuran

Жыл бұрын

@@mndlessdrwer in a nutshell, you just say "if it's shit, it's shit. no excuse"

@mndlessdrwer

Жыл бұрын

@@OnamazuKuuran Exactly. In this day and age where there are companies on AE selling pre-tuned DD and multi-BA composite drivers that already have acceptable tuning, there is no excuse for a company to do their own work to tune something and do a worse job of it.

@snerttt

Жыл бұрын

@@mndlessdrwer well, burn in is a tested and proven myth

@nellatl

Жыл бұрын

That's absurd. You didn't mention a $12000 cable with a $50000 amp.

Crin :*has a bag of IEMs worth more than 10k$* Also Crin: yoink

@e2rqey

8 ай бұрын

also Crin: YEET

"This is, *The Fuck* "- crinacle 2022

Damn this is good content, first time I've laughed so much seeing his face distort from the IEMs and him manhandling that bag.

I actually really like this idea, you’re not sure how expensive these are when you try them so it’s the most unbiased it can be and I love the surprise

3:25 If anyone's having trouble opening ziploc bags like these, grab them by the side on the "zip" and do a push pull with two fingers. Works wonders

@tranthien3932

Жыл бұрын

Or just slide the two sides (up and down) along the "zip" and it will pop open.

I have the Aladdins. Yanyin and especially their Aladdin embodies the saying "jack of all trades, master of none". Super conservative tuning that works for pretty much all genres and can't really go wrong but nothing really stands out

@linolingelbach2214

Жыл бұрын

Yeah a nice IEM to have to break away from the usual Chi Fi upper midrange focused tuning

@mndlessdrwer

Жыл бұрын

I've heard that it lacks detail retrieval and dynamics compared to other sets. Might also just be that the reviewers listening to it have a really high tolerance for treble and the significantly restrained pinna gain on the Aladdin is insufficient for them to hear the treble. One of my favorite sets before it died a gruesome accidental death was the GS Audio GD7B, which has a tuning similar to the Fearless Tequila. Very, very flat with just the tiniest hint of bass and treble gain. I rather liked them, but understood that it's just because my ears are weird and I like reference flat tuning.

@poochzag8

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly how I feel about the yanyin moonlight

Crin speedrunning upsetting every earbud manufacturer on earth

Background music is Ji eun's sunset - City Girl

@LS95774

Жыл бұрын

What a hero

So that zip lock bag had like...5k USD of IEM being tossed around? I love it!

You've got this in the bag. What a neat way to work through your baglog. Third bag pun.

I love this. Can't wait to see how expensive that bag is

This was great! I just love these first impression videos. Could watch hours of this.

I bought a pair of Blessing 2's a month ago because of you and I love them. Thank you!

@beanMosheen

Жыл бұрын

Same. They're damn good.

@sillygoosechinachina

Жыл бұрын

yutsi

The most entertaining half an hour I have spend for a month. Thanks crin.

I like the moonlight a lot more than variations, it has thicker lower mids and more even if darker treble

Another entertaining and informative video Crin! What are the most realistic sounding iem’s at different price points? Love the recentering and when there is an iem that is worth diving into ✨✨✨

here it is the iem lucky dip

im glad price is mentioned as compared to reviewers sometimes that dont take price into account

I was playing a game where I was guessing the prices of all the IEM's before you said what they were, and so far the only one I got right on the money was the Yanyin Canon.

I like how crin can make super long videos and still get a good view demographic since the vids are filled with comedy and fun

Wish there was somewhere around me that I could go and try out a bunch. I'm very happy with my current beyer/dusk combo, but I like trying stuff and having variety, and it was a huge leap of faith to just order two sets of headphones sight unseen, or rather, audio unheard.

Wow! This is amazing and entertaining video. Seems like treasure hunt. I hope we soon expect a video Bag for IEMs 2. Also great way to cover several IEM at once.

Crin when you mention the price and rate the IEMs, can you also mention what you feel like the price should have been for a particular iem to be a good value?

Some KZreadrs brag about cars, some brag about their homes, but this man has class.

Ok, I'm fairly new into audio and not knowledgeable enough, so I have to ask: What is driver flex?

@claudiobizama5603

Жыл бұрын

Some asshole in a Mustang Ecoboost revving the engine

@mainkordormawblei

Жыл бұрын

Tuk tuk, khruk khruk 😆

@nicolas0873

Жыл бұрын

Looking for an answer as well

@sand8908

Жыл бұрын

it's a weird crinkling sound that a driver can make if the housing isn't designed well

@quadrannilator

Жыл бұрын

to add to what @sand said, it usually occurs due to pressure build up or release in the housing while you put in/remove from the IEM shell in your ear

New to your channel I like your reviews considering the cost of products nice keep up the honesty

This is my favourite kind of your content!

I am literally binge watching your channel these past few days and this episode makes my eyes popped with dollar sign. lol. I am actually new on this shit but I have learn a lot from your channel and those iems! man they're dope! anyways I only tried the cheaper ones and they're not even mine. Awesome contents! First time commenting here Subscribed and liked 👍

Best unbagging I've ever seen.

For anyone wondering he had about $9,100 in that bag

@mehmetgurdal

Жыл бұрын

Well for him it's nothing. He doesn't see those IEM's as investment nor valuable. He's just after testing and possibly roasting them. Man what a dream life :D

@youtubeisevil

4 ай бұрын

@@mehmetgurdal He is making the world a better place and helps people by measuring them and making a big database

@mehmetgurdal

4 ай бұрын

@@youtubeisevil I wish the other product industries were to follow a similar approach as what iem industry is doing

Great video as always, Crin! A little question, what do you listen to when testing these IEMs? Do you just loop the same song over and over for each one or is it anything else?

30 minutes of a bag? Yes pls

I love how blatantly honest crinacle is

11:09 You can actually with google lens, it works great!

I think it would be very interesting for you to guess the price at which you think the IEM would be acceptable before you look it up, good video. Keep it up.

@nellatl

Жыл бұрын

Yup. Then it would be funny when the price is $3000 when he says it's good at $30 🤣🤣🤣

“This is very expensive” *tangled messes up jank*

I tried a bag for headphones - just before the wireless ear buds I noticed that if I carry them in a small zip bag the cable won't tangle that much if at all.

I hope you'll get to try out the unique melody mest indigo sometime.

Will you review an ear tips like acoustune or spinfit?

Oh based on your preview I thought you were reviewing the bag. This makes much more sense.

@neonlights_12

Жыл бұрын

I mean the phones are cool I guess but I wished he would have gone more in depth on the bag. Like at least give us the bag model

@Goodbutevilgenius

Жыл бұрын

​@@neonlights_12 a zipper response graph would be ideal

In the best IEMs under 100$ you said you were going to make the same video but with 50$. Is that still planned and if so do you have any idea when you'll make it?

@idontknowmaan

Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for it ;_;

@Goodbutevilgenius

Жыл бұрын

Just spend an extra 50, man.

@orinahari8373

Жыл бұрын

@@Goodbutevilgenius bro I'm 16, and all the money I have I save for gas.

I'm glad crin is around since I enjoy musicality over clinical listening I'll look deeper into the ones he thinks are okay to bad 😂

Crin needs to learn how to do the roadie wrap so his cables stop getting tangled

My guys just got a sandwich bag with several grand of IEMs he's slapping on the table for the meme. Legendary

@certifiedpossum1638

Жыл бұрын

Best part is most of them are mediocre and/or overpriced

This song is one of my iem test songs. Good job Timmy! 😂

Audio bag is a legit concept now.

I rate this video 5/5

Now I am super curious about Unknown IEM (Heartfield Acoustic Deer)

Ever since my friend gave me his pair of iems I've been obsessed with iem but the problem is they are to expensive yes there are cheap ones but i already use cheap let alone its a second hand and my dream iem is moondrop aria cause i like how balance the sound it produce (according to yt reviews)

crinacle is one of the few people I watch that I would actually prefer make a podcast, but somehow hasn't

Me nodding along, while listening with mis-matched Galaxy Buds: Mhm, yeah, that makes sense.

Will you review the "7hz salnotes zero" anytime soon

Can you sweet mister, tell us what should the diffrance be between cheap class iems, medium and high ? THANKS

Tipsy living up to their name. You have to be tipsy if that is the tuning you are happy with.

crin can u review some final audio tws？ I think they have niiice tuning ~

I hope to see this kind of video again :D

Yarr 'twas a good haul today cap'n Crin

Can you share what you're listening to in order to demo the IEMs; I assume you're listening to the same song the whole session? I know you have a blog post about the music you like listening, but it'd be a fun thing to know the testing track for these listening videos.

Yunyin = Onion

the mext is as good as the monarch or monarch mk2?

I have the TRI Starsea, bought on sale back in January. The pressure issue I have sucks, otherwise I like it. I'd like something better down the road.

@DJHaworth

Жыл бұрын

drill a hole in it!

@nepomukullmann3013

Жыл бұрын

Got mine on sale, too, it‘s pleasant, but the upgrade to the Letshuoer S12 was worth it. Wish you much enjoyment with yours until you upgrade.

Hey crinacle! Have you already tested galaxy buds 2 pro? i dont know if i should order them, let me know if you did and if they are any good

I was missing this 😢

Was hoping the meze advar would be there.

The Nugget Lucky Dip: IEM Edition

Thanks Timmy for all the hard work. Oh hi Crin too

Leave it to Crin to casually place an IEM thats worth several hundreds of dollars into a bag of random IEMs as if he got the entire set from Wish

the nugget lucky dip!!!

Finally a review. I have been waiting for this.

Why do I feel like your recent intros have a dankpods style vibe to it XD

that opening was super dankpods lol

Before Crinacle got his hands into the sub-$150 IEM market, the Starsea was legitimately a good option for people. Adequate bass, excellent mids, and quite a bit of detail retrieval without aggressive sibilance in the treble. But it is no longer alone in that segment and probably needs a price adjustment or a complete revamp. Personally, I'd be in favor of them taking Crin's approach to using the DD as a subwoofer and using a pretty fast DD combined with a larger full-range BA and a smaller supertweeter BA so you can get great mids and good treble extension. Don't know if that's going to happen, but I can hope, right? Regardless, I already have one and it gets very little use because I also have a GS Audio GD5, which is just a better all-around IEM compared to the Starsea.

@-aexc-

Жыл бұрын

yeah I got the starsea, 2years ago (? maybe slightly less) I still really love them with the spring tips cause they're so comfortable

@mndlessdrwer

Жыл бұрын

@@-aexc- I just wish that the shell was a bit of a narrower wedge shape and a little shallower in depth. They're reasonably comfortable but stick out of my ears a bit further than my GS Audio GD5. I also wish they had done more with the tuning switches. They don't have nearly as dramatic an effect as I was hoping they would, but designing a crossover network to utilize switches that could make dramatic changes to the tuning just isn't feasible at that price point. It also just isn't that feasible in a set that doesn't have spare drivers to bypass.

*no headphones were harmed in the making of this video (i hope)*

as soon as crin put the bag on the table i knew that only the word 'bag' was to come

29:08 simple 5/5 just simple wow $$$ well sound graph looks balanced

IEM´s with a sound profile slider? Haven´t seen that before, but some IEM´s can benefit from a different tuning I got a pair of cheap chinese Baseus Encock H07 and out of the box, they´re lagging in treble to sound good but with some extra amplification on the hights, they don´t have to hide of my 280€ Klipsch IEMs, for what was like 12€ I´ve paid that´s impressive.

>bag of earphones >entirely IEMs

any updates on when the next ranking list update drops?

CITY GIRL BGM LETS GOOOO 🔥🔥🔥

Surprising how much shit is in the $200+ market. Not like "not good enough for its price", but literally shit

Happy to see the Mangird Tea 2 here since I'm still deciding between them and the Blessing 2 Dusk since I'm new and heard both good and on the fence comments about both. So am I right in that the Dusk are more on the analytical side than the Tea 2, while the Tea 2 is more on the "Let play with the tuning" side of things? As a person who is looking to move up from the OG Aria (coming from the MT1 and ZS10 pro), would it make sense to stick with the fun sounding (from what I've heard) or move to the more analytical (again, from what I've heard). I'm on the fence because it's on the pricy side and I'm not too sure if I'll get the most out of them because all I'm running is a FiiO KA3. Anything suggestion helps, thanks.

@Cyliano

Жыл бұрын

I've the B2 Dusk and they are honestly my endgame, there is nothing that sounds bad on them and they are comfy. They also respond well to eq so when I get bored of the same I eq them slightly, and then return to default.

@Cyliano

Жыл бұрын

Stock tips suck though, xelastec or spring tips are good on them

@krayozmines

Жыл бұрын

Moondrop Variations are fun sounding as well as analytical. it still has that harman tuning of the aria but a slightly re-tuned version of it and micro details, imaging and separation are great. I used totl iems then went back to the variations and I couldn't hear a signaficant drop in resolution at all (if any). The sound stage is very wide. But if you like MID bass then maybe reconsider because the Variations is SUB bass focused. Vocals are great but male vocals are slightly less emphasised. This iem is not muddy not sibilant. This iem is pricey though it does compete with kilo buck iems in my opinion. If this isnt for you then I suggest you audition the Dusk, Dunu SA6 and 7hz Timeless.

@eey78x

Жыл бұрын

Tbh my recommendation is to try listening to both of them if you get a chance. Im not a fan of blind buying

@zeissiez

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the original Tea over the Blessing2. The Tea is more coherent and natural. Male and female vocals are both good. Blessing2 has more resolution though.

Please make separate review of cca nra recently it got too hype It would be great help to know about it in detail , so add that in next video

What do you think about the Grado iGe?

Biggest flex throwing around a bag worth thousands in iems

Crin, "I got rid of the boxes" Also crin, has to untangle and then Web search every model name.

Hey Crin, any chance you will be testing the new Galaxy Buds2 Pro, I wanna see a comparison to the original before I trade up

So it’s nugget lucky dip but iem?

We need your test playlist!

@barbasour

Жыл бұрын

he made an article about that on his website

@Fataha22

Жыл бұрын

@@barbasour where?

What is the problem with the Moonlight? I love them

@resottolamontagna904

Жыл бұрын

Much overpriced.

Is there a review or comparison of aq3 Or aq4 against TRN BA5? My BA5 died 2 days ago and I need a reference against another pair

Finally , yes !

Please, do the Salnotes zero!