AFUL - DAWN-X

IE600s are notoriously v-shaped IEMs that are pretty far out from neutral with exaggerated bass and treble. In terms of form factor there isn't really a like-for-like replacement for something as small as the IEs. Some additional recommendations worth checking out: Aful Dawn-X, laid-back and natural sound, almost inoffensive. Symphonium Crimson, aggressively fun like the IE600. 4 BAs make it one of the simplest constructions in that price range. Symphonium Europa, a more balanced brother to the Crimson. Letshuoer Mystic 8, very dry tonality but that's also what makes it special. A statement piece of an IEM. Actually close to neutral, as in, most people will find there's too little bass. Yu9 Que, if you could get your hands on one. The hype mainly comes from its price-performance ability and it could absolutely go toe-to-toe with many $1k sets, though I find its tuning stereotypical. It's a solid all-rounder choice if I don't know what your tuning prefs are. 64audio Tia Trio, if you're considering the U12t already you could also consider this. Some of the best bass I've heard in an IEM bar none. U12t sounds boring by comparison. Sony IER-M9, another laid-back oldie and a perennial competitor to the IE600. Depending on where you are, they could be had for cheap. Warm neutral presentation with treble boost, dynamics are its Achilles heel. Thieaudio Valhalla, much more refined v-shape presentation than the Monarch MkIV and more comfortable. Given your budget goes up to $2k, this is very much worth checking out. In terms of fit, Thieaudios are notorious for big shells and contentious comfort, so the advice is always to try before you buy if you could. You'd have the best luck with 64audio, maybe Symphonium, but Symphoniums will take some time getting used to because they aren't vented.

AFUL Dawn-X. Like the other poster I have a Supernova and love it, I thought it was one of the best tunings. Dawn-X is better. Everything just sounds natural, but with better bass and upper treble, along with sneaky good techs. I tried a Monarch Mk4 recently and while that's super fun, its tuning is overly thin and too focused on the upper treble.

Goooood morning y’all. Very good morning. I picked up an Aful Dawn X and we’ve had a chance to get acquainted. I plan to take my sweet time with it, but I wanted to share a few snaps and thoughts for now. This thing has a ridiculously insane driver configuration that I simply had to hear. 1 dynamic driver, 8 balanced armatures, 4 electrostatic drivers, and 1 bone conduction driver per ear. Holy shit, just writing it out is crazy. Listening is even more wild. It definitely ticks the first box I look for in a kilobuck: It’s an experience. Dawn X takes a warm neutral sound signature and injects excitement into the sound with exquisite textures that are impossible to achieve without going to these hardware lengths. The BC drivers give the sensation of extending the subbass while maintaining a neutral grounding. The ESTs are giving me my definition of 3D holographic treble. Incredibly incisive, defined, well-extended and clear. The chorus of BA’s gives us a lush midsection. And DD bass for a natural timbre. My favorite Aful set for sure so far. As I’d hope! I’ll put it up against my Cantor and Dunu Glacier for the review. They’re all very different, but should be fun to compare and contrast. Thanks for reading as always, and Happy Sunday y'all.

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You tried a TeMu IEM for the first time & I was disappointed - correct the statement Aful DAWN X endgame 10/10 You have no money to buy it though

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I agree, it’s a great set. The bass is neutral and natural, but does have a punch, the BC driver coming to life at a higher volume. The EST drivers give a fantastic separation of instruments and sounds, the best soundstage of the IEMs I own. The mids are clear, warm and full, the vocals stand up in the mix and are never lost. It’s not a dry reference IEM, it has great clarity and a musicality. Nothing seems to over power any of the tonal range, with 14 drivers they seem to have pulled off a cohesive whole. It is not a bass head set, it’s balanced, U shaped with lots of clarity

That's exactly why I chose my Dawn-X. Not miniature disco balls in my ears. https://preview.redd.it/fy4vz7c0rn5g1.jpeg?width=6144&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=235a8440c15ab3a9bbd256789bae998bbfead946

If you like bass the dawn x isn't particularly bassy. Side note how is the mega5bass compared to the armor?

Amazing to see a sub $300 set keep up with an almost $600 set. Which one has more mid bass punch? I would love to add an EST set to my collection and the Armor and Mega5bass are both amazing looking sets! I got the chance to demo the Dawn X at Can jam cause the driver config piqued my interest. I found the tuning very safe and reserved a if their intention was to put out a reference sounding IEM, they succeeded at that. I'm bass head through and through, I need good punch and rumble to feel engaged with my music, and the Dawn X didn't do that for me. I blind purchased the Archangel after Can Jam. It's got dual Sonion full range BCD, that's to say its not the BCD that rattles like in other BCD sets. What it's doing to the sound I have no idea, but it sounds amazing so I'm not going to question it haha!

**Aful Dawn-x** Hi, Jaytiss here. I try not to post too much as iem review content can be annoying and spammy. But someone was asking me to post here, so I thought that i'd share my feeling with you guys here. So story time.  My first review on head fi almost two years ago was about the Aful P5.  I use the Aful 7 almost daily at work and is a favorite set. I have two sets again, after selling one and wanting one at home as well.   It has a ridiculously high rating on my ranking list.   So I would encourage all to demo before you buy, as I am trying to disclose my biases.   I use the Aful Magic one as a comparison in all my videos as well, as it is a comfortable shell for me.  Having said that, I will strive to have the most honest and fair review about what this iem is and what it isn’t.  I like this iem a great deal, and one of my sticks is having a ranking list.  In some ways this is my favorite iem, the venting the fit, the cable, the feeling of the iem is like a custom iem for me which is very positive.  I recently dealt with a ear infection and this iem allows my ears to breath really well, and that’s a hugely positive thing.  0;z BASS Bass is fine, this isn’t for bass heads.  It’s a smoothe correct set that I love a great deal.  Bass isn’t bad or poor, but it feels like it has a slight air lift to my ears which makes the bass slightly less impactful.  The bass level on it has a lot of bass, but to my ear it feels too airy and light, but when the bass is needed, it feels present.  This phenomenon is similar to what the Elysian Annihilator 2023 did for me.  Light and airy, not robust and thumpy.  Impactful, fine, acceptable, but not for bassheads and feels to my ear that it is tilted on an airy approach.   Mids They are present and clean, this the best part of the set.   Vocals feel nice and well done.  Nice texture and detail.  Great, livly and fun.  I find the mids expressive, livly, and the vocals to pop out in a great way.   It’s nice, and clean. Treble It’s natural and feels great  I like it a lot and don't feel it has the zing of the Aful P7 has, which part of me misses, but I think the treble is more appropriate and natural and leads to a cleaner more clarity driven sound. The treble can feel like it lack incision, and punch at times.  But overall it a cohesive sound. **Cons and the real truth.** Do the ESTs or BC matter?   I don’t think so.  I’d love for aful to redo this iem without the Bone conductor and with Planars instead of ESTS and I think they might get a more simple set that might cost significantly less.   But the facts are this, some people need to see a higher price on an iem for it to be worthy of their time.   Of the dozens of sets that I heard at CanJam and have heard in my career as a mid Youtube reviewer, I’ve heard a lot of iems that don’t impress me.  They are too bassy, too strong, and too outlandish.   This is a good clean technical set with fantastic technicals, clean mids that doesn’t fatigue me, or bother my ears.  As someone who has dealt with a recent ear infection, I’m all of a sudden more sensitive to venting and this iem is vented and fits so well that I just love it so much.   Looking forward, I do know that Aful is doing a midfi revisit of the their new Aful P8, called the Aful P8s.  I look forward to that and think it could be amazing for many reasons.  I would advise you all who can’t afford the price to wait for the next Aful iem, to which I think will be out in November as Aful have released an iem around that time in the past few years (P5 in 2022, Magic one in 2023, Aful P7 in 2024), and I know the final prototypes are being worked on soon and expected in October or so.   I do know the iem will be called Aful P8s and it has a tuning switch for two unique tuning.   I would expect it to be a little bit more than the current Aful P8 which is 370, so maybe around 400 give or take 40 dollars.   But if you can afford this iem, is it worth it?  I think so.  I think it’s wonderful, without many of the issues that the Cantor has.  Cantor was like a high calorie desert that I didn’t want to use too much.   This is just easy and fun to use for hours, and is like a fine steak, that I could have everyday and at every meal.  My excitement for this iem hasn’t changed since I’ve gotten it.  It keeps staying good, which is a testament to it’s strong sound, great fit, and the fact that it works for me in many ways.   Remember the biases I spoke of in the beginning.   It’s a fantastic iem, that for anyone who is thinking about it, it is a great set.  But for those who are worried about the bass, or price there are cheaper options that you might like even more.  Maybe even wait for the Aful P8s that is coming out soon.  There will be a longer review written on another audio site that ends in Fi.   Also a youtube review will also be done with this.   Thanks for reading.   [https://youtu.be/yy3kKP2l4Lc](https://youtu.be/yy3kKP2l4Lc)

**Merry Xmas ya'll!** Here's a quick list of the best IEMs I've heard that **came out** in 2025. Full video breakdown [here](https://youtu.be/jnNvbrCh8Yg). IEM Ranking List [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZHVib50XFQW4up3SwOZUTbI-hZB6Ir5LX6XnZblIM6o/edit?usp=sharing). \--------------------------------------------------------------------- **Under $25 (Sales Included)** * TangZu Waner 2 (Balanced/Clean) * Tanchjim Bunny/Zero Ultima DSP/3.5 (Balanced/All-Rounder) * HM: KZ Duonic (Bassy All-Rounder/Sub-bass focused) * HM: GK Kunten (Bassy All-Rounder) * HM: Kiwiears Belle (Warm/Bassy/Thick/Smooth) **Under $50 (Sales Included)** * 7Hz Elua Ultra (All-Rounder/Dynamic/Slight V) * KZ Zenith (Balanced/Clean/Smooth) * HM: Truthear x Crinacle Zero Blue 2 with 5 Ohm Adapter (Basshead) **Under $125 (Sales Included)** * Simgot EG280 (All-Rounder/Bright Leaning/Vocal Forward) * Tanchjim Fission (Neutral/Balanced/Smooth) * Kiwiears Airoso (Warm/Airy) * Kefine Quatio (Bassy/Dynamic/Versatile) * HM: JUZEAR Defiant (All-Rounder/Slight V/QC issues) * HM: Kiwiears Etude (Bouncy Bass/Scaling/Bone Conduction Drivers) * HM: 7Hz Diablo (Warm/Bassy/Thick/Dark) * HM: 7Hz Divine (Clean/Balanced) **Under $200** **(Sales Included)** * LETSHUOER S12 ULTRA (All-Rounder/Slight V/Bassy) * Crinear DayBreak/EPZ P50 (Balanced/Smooth/Vanilla) * Kiwiears Aether (Balanced/Airy) * Ziigaat Lush (Balanced/Warm Leaning/Scaling) * MYER CK2V (Bright/Sparkly) * HM: Punch Audio Portazo (Basshead) **Under $300 (Sales Included)** * Kiwiears Astral (All-Rounder/Slight V) * EPZ K9 (All-Rounder/Fuller-Less Shouty Harman 2019) * Softears Volume S (Balanced/Warm) * Ziigaat Crescent (Warm/Sparkly) * Punch Audio Martilo (Basshead) * Kiwiears Orchestra 2 (Neutral/Vocal Forward) * Yanyin Canon Pro/YU9 Que (Neutral/Smooth/Scaling) * HM: Kiwiears Septet (Bright/Airy) * HM: Tanchjim Force (Vocal forward/Clean) * HM: Juzear Defiant (Smooth/Scaling/Mid-Range) * HM: Dunu 142 (All-Rounder/Slight-V/Sharper Kiwiears Astral) **Under $500 (Sales Included)** * Thieaudio Hype 4 MK2 (Bright/Energetic/Clean) * Xenns Tea Pro SE (Balanced/Natural) * Xenns Top Pro (Balanced/Clean/Sparkly) * NICEHCK ROCKIES (Balanced/Full/Airy) * Ziigaat Luna (Warm/Airy) * Ziigaat Arcanis (Vocal Sauce/Mid-Range Scaling) * HM: HiSenior MEGA 7 (Balanced/Smooth/Neutral) **Under $2000** * Thieaudio Monarch MK4 (Clean All-Rounder/Bassy with Switch) * Thieaudio Valhalla (All-Rounder/Dynamic/Bassy) * LETSHUOER MYSTIC 8 (Neutral/Bright/Airy) * Softears RSV MK2 (Bassy All-Rounder/V-Shape) * FIIO FX17 (Warm All Rounder) * HM: AFUL DAWN-X (Sub-bass/Smooth/Scaling) * HM: BGVP SOLOMON (Bright/Slight V)

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