NGaudio METEORA

First things first: Andrew, Leo and crew not only offered top notch advisory, but managed to have the Meteora shipped overseas in no time.

The Meteora is not a set one should write about. It has to be listened to. Easy and gimmick marketing statement, one might think. Nope.

No fancy driver-structure under the ultra solid resin hood, just « savoir-faire » from the manufacturer and a deep understanding how music should be played-back out of your favorite gears. Easy to drive? Yes, the Meteora is for sure, but this IEM is a fantastic playground to experiment with eartips, cables, sources and why not external dac & dac/amp. You can color the sound so easily and with such nuances that it would be a shame not to try.

Enough blabla, how do the Meteora sound to me, after 2 intensive days of listening? What puzzles me is the tuning. Slightly warm, yet extremely detailed, the layering and imaging abilities stand out, without any sharp edges in the uppermids/lower treble section (fully subjective opinion ofc).

Long story short, the Meteora are not meant to be a revolutionary IEM set from a driver structure perspective. NGaudio knows how to manufacture very solid resin shells, tight 2pin sockets, but, most importantly, this « in the western world » low-radar company knows how to make their IEMs sing.