My 10 minute E1000 listen comments just posted on Audio Geek US Tour WhatsApp chat group.
LISTEN UP; 84 years old,mostly deaf....1st 15 minutes.
1. No boom. Extremely extended bass with incredible articulation.
2. Staging excellent. Not particularly wide but EVERY instrument has its own space.
3. Highly holographic. You can literally hear 360 degrees around each note.
4. VERY nuanced and detailed. Highly balanced frequency so you hear incredible detail from 20hz to 20khz (slight exaggeration)
5. Musicality suffers a little due to extreme articulation. I can clearly hear crisp front of note attack with long decay.
6. It takes a few minutes, even for my dear ears, to get adjusted to the micro detail
7. Definitely not an orchestra seat. You are on stage and don't get the harmonic distortion youd normally receive in row 15.
8. I crave detail, but these iems will benefit from a tube pre or amp. I am using my Modwright Analog Bride switching between 6922 and 6SN7 tubes (instantly). It trims a minute amount of crispness but still with extreme resolution.
9. Using my beloved Baroque Stage tips from Eletech. They sound the same whether left alone or lightly pressed in....a good thing.
10. And that's 10 minutes in.
11. Iems are worthy of top tier ONLY IF YOU WANT TO HEAR EVERYTHING.
12. I wanted a dynamic driver iem as I love the attack of my Focal Utopia 22.
13. Packaging (which I don't give a shit about) was designed by a 6th grader on a tight school budget. Just bummed about damaged box primarily because of resale. Hoping Sherry can get me clean box.
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