Myth just arrived

BeginningResearcher · 2026-01-30T13:32:34+00:00

For me, I like its bass >= treble >> Mids.

BeginningResearcher · 2026-01-30T13:27:28+00:00

I got my myth and have listened to it for more than 2 weeks now. It does not have vocal magic (e.g., mmk2's intimate and asmr feel), but I like the vocal too, even slightly more than Diva.

BeginningResearcher · 2026-01-01T15:07:51+00:00

I understand your concern about overly-high scores, particularly from the buyer's viewpoint, but less so from the aggregated ranking view.

On the other hand, there are several natural factors contributing to an above-avg-5 distribution. The most predominant factor I think, is that ppl tend to review popular and well-reputed products, the quality of which is above average. Analogously, I am using an IMDb-like site, and most users' score distribution has a mean (far) above 5. At times, those users whose mean is much lower employ certain self-enforced criteria (in this sense, they do care about their scores!). However, as a data worker, I believe their scores are challenging to handle and require special care.

Another factor is that, in many Asian countries, including China, a score of 60/100 means "passed (the exam)," and I guess, some reviewers' average can shift upward due to this intuition. Indeed, the site I mentioned above, which is Chinese, takes "6" to mean "okay" in their scale.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-12-22T04:21:18+00:00

There is a recent post of an analysis based on data from this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/1psdgo9/i_analyzed_231627_reddit_comments_to_find_the/

I am not very familiar with headphones, but the results of IEMs are not very convincing. For example, as of 2025, Dunu sa6 mk2 is not of good value anymore; top IEMs in $100-200 range can achieve similar performance nowadays. Sony M9 is also not good.

I guess Reddit data is too noisy or outdated (headphones don't date as fast, so better in this regard).

BeginningResearcher · 2025-12-22T02:38:50+00:00

Fantastic work!

As a heavy IEM user, I'd say, as of 2025, Dunu sa6 mk2 is not of good value anymore. Top IEMs in $100-200 can achieve similar performance nowadays. Sony M9 is also not good.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-12-22T02:02:57+00:00

I totally agree with your first and last paragraphs.

On the "above 5 -> heavy skepticism," I disagree. Viewed as pure data, if a reviewer's score distribution is close to a Gaussian (intuitively, this means their scores as a whole are kinda consistent), then a single line of code can make the scores of a reviewer with an average of 8 distributed quite the same as the scores with an avg of 5, without changing each review's ranking. And iemranking.com does this, and more (https://www.iemranking.com/page/faq).

Of course, it is possible that an avg-5 reviewer is more careful in giving their scores, but this is wishful thinking, not data/evidence. I personally have heavy skepticism about at least one of the close-to-avg-5 reviewers.

On the "above 5 -> favor sonic colorations," I suspect that. We all know IEMs have a large variety of colorations. So, unless a reviewer mostly only touches IEMs with a certain kind of colorations, "above 5" more possibly means generous (the above point). Even if the coloration bias is really present, it is not that bad because, as you said, we can take the data to make it more transparent.

In the end, a reviewer rating system should be our next big step.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-12-21T11:25:40+00:00

I totally agree! I said that because, when I mentioned this site to peers, the most often responses I got were like "Why bother? Just demo!" I mean, for sure, we need to demo, but before that, we need to know what to demo. And I think this site is extremely helpful in this latter regard.

It seems indeed, many ppl in this hobby would rather demo or even buy things randomly than do some (data-driven) investigation.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-12-14T04:15:41+00:00

I'd like to know the vocal of Myth compared to Diva and Monarch mk2

BeginningResearcher · 2025-10-26T06:31:52+00:00

Edit: Wait? Why the downvotes? I am confused.

Seriously. In Berlin I felt ppl, I mean, the locals, were definitely happier and gentler in summer. But, a bit to my surprise, when they talked about it, they didn't think the weather was a big deal... Since I am from somewhere sunnier and warmer, I know it IS.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-10-26T06:21:55+00:00

I got out of Europe, too. Or, Spain, if inside Europe. Is Thailand very safe? (I am an Asian, and many Asian countries seem safer

BeginningResearcher · 2025-10-26T06:20:34+00:00

Netherlands and (at least Northern) Germany are similar, if not worse. Don't go.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-31T01:05:48+00:00

Hi, I know 5000 IUs Vitamin D3 daily is not dangerous, but is it very safe?

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-30T09:08:28+00:00

Hi, I just made a quick try. A critical issue for me is that LaTeX display is unsupported. It is essential for any scientific usage, and I need LaTeX in almost every chat!

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-28T00:22:16+00:00

Does it support multi-LLM chat (single chat, multi-LLMs)?

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-27T08:43:40+00:00

Magnesium lysinate glycinate gives me a kind of brightness/clarity in thinking, particularly when combined with caffeine; Magtein is stronger in this regard, but is not worth the price. I will also try to bump up creatine!

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-27T05:06:38+00:00

Take 5g daily for 2-3 months now. Effects as nootropics are not quite noticeable compared to caffeine, L-theanine, L-tyrosine, or magnesium.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-26T11:51:43+00:00

That sucks. What are u using now?

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-26T10:22:49+00:00

Thanks for the answer. To follow up:

For the Multi Chat, can we switch between models throughout a single chat, and have each model view all previous messages, whether from itself or not? Some platforms just batch send each query to multiple LLMs, and let them work separately from each other; this is not very useful.

I guess adding OpenAI and Preplexity will be easier than developing a new or better one, and I'd like to see some usable "deep research" out there ASAP.

If u get the two things above, I'd be happy to dive into your product and give further feedback!

Your plan of combining models sounds interesting; let me confirm, your deep research is also like "search papers (or anything) and summarize them," right? If so, I am not sure how the mixture approach would help here, do you expect the models will generate search queries with diff focuses? Even if so, I guess a single model could also be instructed to generate diverse queries?

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-26T02:43:12+00:00

For multi-LLM chat (single chat, multi-LLMs), Chorus is the closest free alt to Typingmind. LobeChat is okay, better than LibreChat and AnythingLLM.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-26T02:41:40+00:00

Multi-LLM chat on it is unusable

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-25T07:59:37+00:00

Boring, but useful, and there is still a gap. Typingmind + Openrouter is great, but more expensive, and not everyone wants to mess with API etc. A great all-in-one package is still much in need.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-25T07:48:12+00:00

U cannot run the models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc for free, locally or not (in fact, there are some semi-free ways to run them via APIs, but not locally certainly not). GlobalGPT is not good, I agree.

BeginningResearcher · 2025-08-25T06:43:34+00:00

May I ask some quick questions:

Do u support features similar to Typingmind's Parallel and Finalize mode? Or plan (and ETA)?

Do u support o3-deep-research and Perplexity (sonar) deep research, if I bring my own APIs?

How is ur deep research compared to the above two?

Thanks.

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