AFUL - Cantor

I'm guessing Aful Dawn-X and Cantor? I stuck to my self imposed blind buy budget of $500 and got the Cantor for $420, although the Dawn-X sale was reallllly tempting. I'm curious how close they stay in technicalities with the Cantor peq'd to match the Dawn-X below like 600hz. Any chance you're bored enough to run that experiment?

aful cantor. endgame detail across all frequencies. my reference set. insanely good for what i listen to (mainly electronica).

Aful is great at designing IEMs. They have some amzing ones, my favorite is the Explorer, followed by the "starry night" Cantor

Haaard disagree on 1. The IEMs I’ve loved the most have been All-BA. U12T, Butastur, Carmen, … I wonder if you have tried the good, branded BA’s? Unbranded stuff like the Aful Cantor is very iffy IMO. But I agree on the Sennheiser stuff, I cannot understand the religious fanaticism for the HD6xx and the 800s at all.  For some reason I’ve never liked a single planar I’ve heard…

Too many to list. Tea and Top Pro. Bgvp Astrum, Thieaudio Origin, Aful Cantor.... Fatfreq Maestro Mini, Softears Studio 4. Etymotic Evo, etc....

All-around Clean = Top Pro All-around Bass = Tea Pro Bass Hedonism = Thieaudio Origin Detail/precision at all costs = Aful Cantor Vocals = BGVP Astrum Walk around while shopping - CrinEar Daybreak Travel - Ziigaat Odyssey

This and (mostly) crin's sub has a lot of younger folks looking for sub $50 recs and I can't really blame them, if not for the fact that most game sound engines are not that good that you'd notice any real difference I can directly compare my Cantor, Doscinco, Ea1000 and Arias and all I can hear is "hmm yes the sound is slightly more sound-ier on the Cantor" but I barely play any competitive FPSes since cs2 playerbase is shrinking in Asia and valorant has a particularly bad sound engine You're not going to hear notable differences unless you're getting a soundstage monster like the HD800s or just speakers lads, but it'll probably be a great investment for any other use case

Without putting a budget you might get really expensive recommendations. Aful Cantor and Fatfreq Quantum are the wider sounding IEMs I have tried. The entire selling point for the Quantum is that soundstage module it has. But for these, buy them secondhand.

Nice observation I too am having buyers remorse after trying something like the Thieaudio Origin Aful Cantor Dawn X UM MESTs when my Hidizs MP145 and 7hz Timeless can have similar performance at only under $300 wtf. Also I remember listening to my old Sony IER Z1R and am impressed by the timbre and bass

My top picks are the Pilgrim and Studio 4, the best for technical performancers up to $700-800, upgrade is the Cantor(talking pure resolving). The Pilgrim's darker, but the Studio 4 is brighter. I consider them the King and Queen. One step above all other sets around that price IMO.