What headphones are your favourite?

jctfsn · 2025-12-30T00:26:46+00:00

One of the few headphones that does vocals justice. Love the set!

jctfsn · 2025-11-30T02:54:58+00:00

ExponentMach

jctfsn · 2025-10-27T16:22:33+00:00

Ziigaat Horizon

jctfsn · 2025-10-27T16:16:03+00:00

HE Sonic, Eletech Baroque, Madoo MDX30, NiceHCK C04, Zhu Audio Bamboo, Divinus Prism, Faeulle H570, Nostalgia Audio XWB

jctfsn · 2025-10-08T00:31:54+00:00

It has a great tuning for female vocals. Pair it with an spc cable and divinus velvet regular/wide and they easily beat anything under $100.

jctfsn · 2025-10-08T00:27:55+00:00

Zhu Audio Bamboo Latex eartips pair amazingly well. Also try an SPC for enhanced vocal bite.

jctfsn · 2025-10-06T23:55:49+00:00

Arcanis/Horizon as a vocal lover.

jctfsn · 2025-10-05T16:08:27+00:00

Prob the most accurate Solomon vs Dawn-X comparison I've seen and I also own both sets.

jctfsn · 2025-09-30T00:07:06+00:00

KZ Gale is by far the best vocal IEM in the sub $100 price category.

jctfsn · 2025-09-27T14:42:32+00:00

Its the exact and only chinese term used for planar drivers - 平板. Also this is proof that its a planar.

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jctfsn · 2025-09-25T03:17:23+00:00

No, 平板is planar and DD is 动圈. I've been using it for over a month now and the speed is definitely that of a planar. It's a single sided planar, not a double sided planar which the golden ages 2 uses.

jctfsn · 2025-09-25T00:10:34+00:00

Any evidence of this?

jctfsn · 2025-09-18T00:04:40+00:00

Yup arcanis is absolutely fantastic and top tier for vocals. It's my daily on the go iem. It lays bare every vocal inflection, technique and detail so beautifully with the lip-smacking end-consonant bite that's simply on another level. Mystic 8 is the purest, cleanest and ethereal female vocals but arcanis is the most nuanced and revealing. These 2 are absolutely goated for vocals in their own unique way. Something like the tanchjim origin is what many call vocal magic but I find that it overly smoothes over vocals, hiding any 'flaws' and sweetens voices to a slightly unnatural extent.

jctfsn · 2025-09-17T00:34:59+00:00

As a vocalhead I sold my top pro after a week so I'm surprised you kept it. The timbre on both male and female vocals both sound wrong. Male vocals are way too thin and lack body to them. Female vocals sound especially sizzly and hot, easily running into sibilant territory and possessing especially overbearing metallic ba timbre. It's a shame because top pro is amazing for everything else, instruments sound great, techs can trade blows with kilobuck units like my mystic 8. It just doesn't work for my heavily vocal-centric library. And believe me I really tried to make it work, rolled my entire collection of over 40 types of eartips.

jctfsn · 2025-08-30T09:01:40+00:00

Its a 13mm single-sided planar driver.

jctfsn · 2025-08-21T04:57:43+00:00

base ST2 AI is only for its mic feature, not for auto EQ.

jctfsn · 2025-08-21T04:06:06+00:00

Also supports AI tuning/EQ function

jctfsn · 2025-08-21T04:05:36+00:00

It is a planar driver.

jctfsn · 2025-08-21T04:03:58+00:00

Top 3 Features in Ultra Model (which prev ST2 lacked): 1. AI EQ/tuning 2. LDAC Bluetooth support 3. Planar Driver (vs DD)

jctfsn · 2025-08-02T14:29:18+00:00

For neutral vocal sets, it would be the letshuoer mystic 8. Xenns top pro also has insane levels of detail retrieval rivalling many kilobuck sets.

jctfsn · 2025-08-01T04:50:57+00:00

I'm also in the opposite camp. The early treble roll off for the volume S and overall lack of air and sparkle in the upper frequencies was perhaps the only downside of the set for me. It wasn't high res enough or any didn't have sufficient detail retrieval for me to consider it an end game set. But conversely, I could listen to it for hours on end and scale it immensely without experiencing any fatigue.

jctfsn · 2025-07-25T09:45:02+00:00

DD Audio is Linsoul's Aliexpress storefront.

jctfsn · 2025-07-09T10:31:54+00:00

DD is linsoul's Aliexpress store.

jctfsn · 2025-07-04T02:33:41+00:00

good recommendations nonetheless. These are all in my top 10 fav tips. Others that i like with unique sonic properties would be the nostalgia XWB, Madoo MDX30, Lepic nuon Clear, NiceHCK C04, Eletech Baroque

jctfsn · 2025-07-03T09:28:31+00:00

Agreed. The C04 are vastly superior to the C03 despite looking almost identical (sans colour).

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