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Kekfine bros... not like this

>>110326546
If you don't have resin IEMs you're basically asking for all kinds of cosmetic damage.

Mid Tier
$5 shitbuds
$10 shitbuds
$20 shitbuds

High Tier
$3 shitbuds
$4 shitbuds

Top Tier
$1 shitbuds
$2 shitbuds

God Tier
$0 shitbuds

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Ratzos, it's over...

/iemg/ Dogma Check
Tired of the hivemind? Here’s your prescribed sanity dose:

>Crinacle is not your priest.
Rankings are a guide, not divine scripture. Your ears > his spreadsheet.

>Harman and JM-1 ≠ perfect.
It’s a preference curve, not a law of physics. Some genres need deviation.

>Chi-Fi isn’t magic.
Great value, yes. Immune to QC issues and hype cycles? Nope.

>Graphs are not sound.
They don’t show staging, dynamics, or fit. Use your ears, not just squigs.

>BA ≠ metallic, DD ≠ perfect.
Implementation matters more than driver type. Always has.

>Meme sets aren’t the whole hobby.
If it’s not shilled 24/7, it might still be good. It's highly encouraged to form an original opinion.

>Disagreeing ≠ cope or deaf.
Let people like what they like without foaming at the mouth.

>Loud posts =/= smart takes.
Confidence without experience is just noise. Show graphs, impressions, or both.

>Cognitive dissonance.
When you're presented with a truth that threatens your entire perception of the world around you, your brain will simply refuse to process it.

This has been your scheduled break from pos groupthink.

>>110326516
>I'm sure opinion of random online guys matters more than measurements.
A consensus is a consensus.
>>110326580
You're not getting any real information across posting random chinks/russians THD plots when *the very same people that took them* praise the sound of the IEMs in question.

You're not really making any sense.

>>110326623
A consensus means nothing. We don't vote for how many electrons atoms have.

>>110326578
>the price is double digit
paypig

>>110326639
Shoo, fly. If your argument is truly, "REEE, don't trust random people", then the logic applies directly to you and your contention.
Funny how that works.

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>>110326569
True

>>110326651
My argument is to trust facts over opinions.

>>110326661
"THD means nothing for most things", yet you use a THD plot to imply an iem is shit, yet those measurements were taken by people that praise the sound.

You can't even reconcile that fact. What happened to you loving facts so much?

>>110326639
why must it mean nothing? especially odd to say in a hobby where perception and subjective xp is central

>>110326700
>"THD means nothing for most things"
Skill issue.

>>110326750
The irony is that they worship Harman studies. Anon, don't take that contrarian seriously. Their only goal is to throw a wrench into legit discussions because she has to make everything about her. She's easy to spot and rebuke

>>110326750
You explained why in your own post.
>subjective
>consensus
Why would your subjective experience be in any way related to the consensus.

>>110326787
nta, but why would your subjective experience matter more than the consensus?

>>110326804
The most reddit post I've ever seen.

>>110326810
Well then, I accept your concession. You're flaking on something you started lol. If you can't handle the heat, stay out the kitchen

>>110326820
>Well then, I accept your concession.
Did reddit approve this?

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>>110326787
why wouldn't it? we are the same species. just because you cant trust it as such doesnt mean its informationally worthless. if i read reviews i know more than nothing

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>Tired of the hivemind?
>why would your subjective experience matter more than the consensus
The lack of self-awareness is insane.

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>>110326858
if you read reviews you know less than nothing.

>>110326910
>"they are not Harman-trained, therefore they are invalid"
-The Harman guy with speakers to sell

The jokes write themselves

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>>110326943
The task was to give a score to what you heard. Rating the same thing differently = bad performance. So yeah, if you can't even tell you heard the same thing twice your opinion is invalid.

paypigs be like
>I can hear the MSRP

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>>110326943
>How bro felt when he saw people buying Harman speakers instead of 500 rupee earphones for 17000 rupees

>>110326910
at most you're just showing that reviewers' opinions should be weighted less than trained listeners. and its not even that relevant when we're talking about consensuses from lots of reviews

>>110326966
>Running preference tests to come up with a consensus target.
>The target gets used by Sony, then the target people buy a speaker company, JBL.
And this motherfucker wants to pretend that they don't give in to hype when the entire hobby and the tunings involved are pure hype.
Go ahead, tell us what your 'hifi' speakers are. Then tell us the most expensive pos you own. Then tell us another pos you bought at a premium when the premium was still its stock tuning.
>JBL
>Variations
>P50
HOW FUCKIN INTERESTING lol

lotta daybreak shilling going on but is it really better than gato/wank2/epzq1

>>110327030
check the consensus obviously

>>110327014
Buying things for stock tuning is a skill issue.

>>110327030
I've shilled a lot of things here and I don't even use iems so take what you may with a grain of salt

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>>110327012
Their ears are not your ears, their opinion means nothing, trained or untrained.

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Friendly reminder to download the 200 anime music links in >>110301800
Then buy the $20 phone, $15 trn black pearl, $3 kz castor, $3 4.4mm and $2 sancai noble
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOH1etp
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrbQ1mr
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mO4w61t
https://a.aliexpress.com/_m02WuNt
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOE3wxz
Then use SoX to convert the 96kHz-5.6MHz anime music to DSD256 with your peq:

sox -t wav - %d rate -v 11289600 sdm -f clans-6 -t 4 -n 4 \
equalizer 21 1.5q 1 \
equalizer 84 -0.4q 1.1 \
equalizer 200 -2.2q 0.8 \
equalizer 1000 1.4q 0.6 \
equalizer 3700 -1.6q 3.8 \
equalizer 5600 2.6q 1.8 \
gain -2.5818

Set dongle to NOS mode and play in Neutron Player https://www.google.com/search?q=neutron+player+cracked
Follow all these directions and you get endgame

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>>110326591
Doesn't know what EQ is btw.

>>110326908
>5,000+ sold
half of that is iemg tourists, proud of rat

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>read 30 years of reviews that hd600 is good
>buy it
>it's bad
>get told "you're just used to bass boosted headphones"
>gaslight yourself into liking them
>perpetuate the cycle
A glimpse into the mind of a redditor.

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>>110327227
You need K11R2R and TA-66 to make hd600 listenable

>>110327247
And massive hearing loss.

>>110327080
no but they're not unrelated either is my point. this is retarded. i guess no reviews of anything mean anything then

>>110327296
Now you're getting it.

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>>110327323
>castor 10,000 sold
>tranny pos 800 sold
people know KZ is the real deal

>>110327560
Castor is consistently cheaper and was popular for longer, Bunny isn't $10 that often

>people know Taylor Swift is the real deal

>>110327095
Reminder to compress your music to 128kbps ogg for portable use.

>>110327560
KZ planars have such high THD, everyone says they sound great regardless. I guess the, "you have to pay more for THD" shtick didn't really stick.

>>110327784
ogg is a container newfag

>>110327918
nta, but he's obviously using shorthand for ogg vorbis, which everybody knows is a file format. damn is there anything you don't complain about?

>>110327946
vorbis is a vbr codec newfag

>>110327951
same thing, you just confirmed it you piss baby

So foxzo's new grift is, "you're a newfag". How fuckin original

>>110327966
128kbit isn't a normal vorbis setting did you mean q0 newfag

>>110327975
learn what ogg and vorbis is and which is a container and which is a codec newfag

>>110327975
Nigga confused like 5 different people for foxzo. Pro tip: stop saying stupid shit.

>>110327976
You can render it to anything, just like you think you can EQ $5 shitbuds to TOTL techs. Keep repeating yourself, schizo

did someone link this thread on reddit where are all the newfags coming from??

>>110327985
uh oh, melty couldn't get it all out in one post, she has to flood the thread now.
>>110327989
shut the fuck up it's literally only you being a bitch

>>110327906
>Everyone says
No, only you say it, Tyvan's most retarded gweilo

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omg another newfag! it's a reddit party haha

>>110328013
learn what opus, ogg and vorbis is newfag

>>110328003
>shut the fuck up it's literally only you being a bitch
Meds.

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>>110328029

>>110327992
>>110328003
newfags should learn more at xiph.org lmao

>>110328029
You know everything, huh?
>is a tranny
oh....

>>110328048
except we're talking about .ogg, not .opus and "128kbit ogg" isn't the common nomenclature newfag

>>110328049
Still throwing a trantrum. Awww

>>110328056
>>110327951

>>110328050
shoo newfag the adults are talking

>>110328056
Nvm I misread, I thought you called opus vbr

>>110328062
>>110328061
>>110328077
excuse me newfag you didn't have an argument so im just accepting you're concession! tough luck for reddit huh

OP is a newfag who uses the wrong nomenclature for everything.

Nobody uses vorbis in 2026 lol.

Listen to vorbis music right now

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>>110328082
There's multiple people shitting on you as you're throwing a hissy fit. Go back to ASR

>>110328082
*you are

Derailing and shitting up the thread award. Is it Saturday morning in Ukraine right now??

Remember to put you flacs into the ogg container for portable use.

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>>110328084
>>110328094
>>110328097
>>110328104
>>110328112
ok go enjoy you're "128kbit ogg files" wherever shady site you got them! im sure they sound good LOL

>>110328129
Nothing shady about youtube

another day, another influx of reddit refugees educated on digital audio. no skin off my nose

I feel old that zoomers don't know the difference between opus and vorbis.

>tws support opus but only for spatial audio on pixel buds
Kill every bluetooth engineer.

>>110328207
Wtf? That is not Bluetooth codec

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Is there some good place online to buy second hand iems?

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>>110328733
I bought my used stellaris on ebay

>complains about AI slop
>uses AI slop

>>110328733
Fuckin kek.
Also to answer your question there is a market for this kind of stuff in 3rd world countries. Most through Facebook. You won't find em in muttland or eu doe

>>110328733
https://www.head-fi.org/classifieds/

>>110328733
>buying used waifu and filters with someone else's earwax
disgusting! just stop being poor, anon

>>110328879
>"stop being a pay pig
>"but stop being poor"
holy shit

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>snapdragon 835 in xz premium thermal throttles while upsampling to dsd256
rip

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>>110328862
>>110328790
Thanks for the heads up bros. Are there a lot of people that sell them due to fit issues and they're basically brand new?

>>110328912
And your buck gets broken when told you're swimming in snake oil

>>110328995
No they sell them for money or they got bored. The ones in actual decent condition are from reviewers or hobby niggas. In which case you might even get a good deal and they'll generally have trust factor. So better to go for those people instead of some rando

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>>110329015
Oh alr I gotchu famalam. Might just stick to a cheaper new one.

So is this thread just a SEA hangout place. You fags are only interested in happy meal toys.

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>>110327784
I'm good with flac.

>>110329229
You would need 10x the storage you have if they were all meme DSD files.

>>110327227
What's wrong with them?

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>>110329138
It got progressively worse.
5 years ago $100 was the benchmark for shitbuds.
Then it went down to $20, now it's considered paypig territory.
KZ was always considered utter garbage but now it's accepted and recommended.

>>110329229
What phone is that??

>>110329312
Other than indians, most people on the 2023 list concatenate their Internet usage to social media in their own language, don't be a crybaby

>>110329314
LG V30

>>110329314
LG V20, the most based phone ever created, can still be considered among the top of DAP.

>>110329314
>>110329362
V20 sorry.

>>110329371
It's not the only phone with a dedicated DAC chip and it's probably not capable of sufficiently powering the most demanding headphones

>>110329371
>the most based phone ever created
How is it any better than V30, though? It also has a Sabre chip

>>110329397
2RMSV is good for almost all IEMs and good enough for most consumer headphones.
>>110329426
Difference is the removable battery (huge deal if you want to get one now) and non-rounded corners. Mine is still usable because how easy to swap batteries.

>>110329458
I think the V20 looks pretty sleek for how old it is, sleeker than V30, but low impedance mode translates to about 3.8 mW. high-impedance mode it scales higher to around 26.7 mW.
hard pass.
V20 do be cute though

>>110326526
erm so can u retards explain to me why you need a general for this? i mean its cool for guys like me when i want to buy an iem and come looking for recommendations but once I have it I'm done. what the fuck do you guys keep talking about lmao? what a bunch of faggots.