Yeah I'm not sure about the TRN version, the price seems a bit high and I think the only way to do these would be to at least have a switch for the haptics in case they become too much or for when you're not in the mood to have your ears tickled. Lol.

@@hi-friaudiomanI'll be grabbing them with the aliexpress wide sale starting tomorrow (basically everything in china is on sale from the 21st thru the 27th) because worst case, I get a good boom mic cable and a set of T tips. TRN makes fantastic cables - the "redchain" from the rosefinch is their modular 4 wire weave, comes with 2.5, 3.5, and 4.4 tips for $12. Have it on my konokas right now, actually. I have my doubts it'll be that much better than the konoka, but I also am into the semi-custom shell shape TRN does, and it's not like I plan on ever really using the konoka in a situation other than gaming, where the motor is going to be on. TRN is like KZ with ethics, so I like supporting them, lol.

You're too kind, but thank you. 🙏

I just received my unit today, I do understand they are marketing it specifically for gamers/movie, but it's decent, even good for bass head like me. If you tap the shell, the driver does vibrate 😂 I saw their demo and noticed the switches were actually turning off driver, blew my mind off, and it really does that. It does need some amp and good cable to drive it properly. And yeah foam tips are def recommended, that helps to take some edge off of 1-2k.

also I tried to tape it to my ear, to hear the piezo/bc/vibration driver, however I think it sounds better with some air between ear and shell? Also how wish they had tuned the DD a bit nicely or keep it purely for low frequencies, at this point my BA is anyway turned off since past few hours

@shreyanshvalentino for the price they feel like a great deal, entertaining. I wasn't expecting them to sound as good as they do though, very pleasantly surprised.

DO IT

Note I've been listening to it 1 off 2 on, so BA off, DD and BC on.

Suggested song: Open by Com Truise

Hey thanks for your comment! I'm actually doing a teardown Livestream this Saturday! I will be hosting a Q&A if you'd like to join. It will be held at 11pm EST.

@@hi-friaudioman yes! definitely!!!!

Channel imbalance can be caused from several different things but there are two main causes; difference in manufacturing i.e misaligned coil, misaligned surround ring, damage to the conductor aka wire, debris or lack of glue in certain areas, too much glue in certain areas. Also overloading can cause imbalance as the voice coil will heat up causing the enamel coating to melt and the conductors to touch, weakening the electro-magnetic field. Physical damage to balanced armatures will also cause imbalance as there is a very small connecting rod that conveys energy from the motor structure to the diaphragm, causing the balanced armature to become unbalanced or lose energy conveyance.

IDK, I'm still really annoyed they claimed it had $1k sound quality thinking it would help sales. No other company uses tactics like comparing the cost of sound quality. Any good company should just let their products speak for themselves and leave the marketing at the technical features and tuning.

I haven't, but I've seen someone who has. Apparently the cable has little effect over sound, but at least some of the time it does have an effect. The problem is that your signal chain is only as good as the weakest part, so if the iem's use cheap wire conductors I doubt an upgrade cable will help, but you never know. A good rule of thumb in my opinion when tweaking sound is this: First change your eartips, source, etc, these will make the biggest impact. And second change the cable, at the least it should have an effect on the sonics of the iem and with some cables there may be a slight difference in tuning because of changes in impedance, however it will be relatively minor.

@@hi-friaudioman Wow that's super informative! Thank you. I did want to say that I tested the Kiwiears Dolce before burn-in. Stock everything. The Treble was hurting me after listening to a few songs. I changed to a 7N OCC Silver cable, and the treble was just less. It wasn't hurting me. I have put in 87 hours of burn-in and will test again in the future. I listen to hardcore and happycore the most. Thank you again. Keep up the great work.

Amen! 🙏

That's no good, hopefully CVJ will take care of this.

I as well have a channel imbalance with my left monitor. Just got em today btw

3x3mm foam, you can get it in various density. Also you can get 3.7mm mesh if you want to stack mesh or add to the mesh. I would probably try foam first though. Try two pieces of 3x3mm med or high density foam and that should do the trick.

Did you buy it?

Yeah, it sounds like you have a bad solder joint. You may need to open and resolder the bad unit. Give that a try first if you can.

@@hi-friaudioman Thanks for the reply

Yeah Xmems! I was just talking to my co-worker about this. I need to email them back because they got back to me about trying out their drivers.

To be honest I have no idea which one would be good to choose. I haven't heard either. But if I were to take my pick i would probably check out the QOA aviation, it's an all Knowles hybrid and the prototype had good technicalities.

@@hi-friaudioman Thank you! Will do.

@@hi-friaudioman $200 is right in the 7hz timeless etc. territory is it worth getting over those being offered or at least near that price bracket? Thank you.

Lol. Yeah it can be pretty off-putting when it's not done tastefully. Also it's very dependent on proximity to the outer ear.

If it was an old skullcandy model they weren't too good, more like prototypes with one note vibration, I've got old Koss gaming headphones with vibration that are even worse, like imagine strapping some ladies bedroom toys to the earcups and turning them on and off every time there's an explosion or bass note. The newest skullcandy models like the Evo are a different league, incredible with specific bass genres and the latest Transformers movie sounded like they were made for it.

@JonnyMorgan18 ha ha. Yep. I hear you brother . Lol.

We audiophiles want wires for better sound quality. Peace!

I owned iem But my daily driver is a TWS with ipx7 so i can go shower with it.. N answer frm 2 of my handphones btw its support aptx LDAC.. Peace primitives!

N my iem endgames system is delta sigma + class A tubes.. in this case 4 pentodes.. Ha2.. Do u understand?. any of dis audiophiles??.. Peace again!

What about latency when you want to play a game or watch a movie? Or what about charging batteries or when the battery needs replacing?

Yes I've owned many tube amps thoughout the years and I've built a few preamps during my time as a studio engineer.