KZ - ZVX Pro

o i had a stroke wtf i read that as truthear pure in your title lol gates are a great set yes. kz zvx pro i've personally been also using and I'm very surprised at all the things you mentioned really . detail, imaging, clarity these were able to provide + full metal build quality for like 12$ if you want a set for the longrun and like a more vocal focused tuning then consider wan'er 2 if those are under 25$, great iem on their own (build quality is pretty cheap though) but you get an excellent cable plus and stellar set of included eartips that people go out of their way to buy on their own to use for much more expensive sets i'd personally take the cheaper zvx pro as its just a sidegrade to the gate but should be a good amount cheaper or spend abit more for the wan'er 2 for the great accessory package

if you have access to zvx pro i'd go for those otherwise i'd take the kz gale as a more balanced allrounder or caastor pro if you're a basshead

zvx pro are a great cheap allrounder kz am16 if you want to spend abti more

i see singlep you just get w/e you want just havve abit of bass. 7hz zero 2, cadenza, truthear gate, kz zvx pro,

Under $10 the best is the KZ EDC PRO (edx pro is another iem), use it with Kbear 08 eartips. In Aliexpress (sometimes using coins) you can get for $8-15 the ND planet, KZ Castor Pro/OG, KZ Libra Balanced/Hi res/X, KZ Saga balanced/bass, KZ ZVX pro, all of them have good reviews and comments. The Kbear 07 and 08 eartips are good for them.

I like it more than my ZVX Pro

Exactly, KZ EDC Pro is the best budget IEM in my opinion. I will add KZ ZVX PRO to this list

I already wrote a zvx pro review

Kz ZVX Pro or PRX for a planar, these are simply brilliant sets. Stomp all over Cadenza.

Saga or ZVX pro.. Same driver, different tuning

One event where the guy who reported it ended up retracting because it didn't happen that way. Glue was getting in the driver's consistently on one model. So based on that, you 'boycot', when there is now KZ Am16, Zenith, ZVX Pro, and a while bunch of really good iem's for very small money for what you get. Well, it's you missing out. If you were not probably 17 years old, I would suggest you were a big cheerleader for the Iraq War, and probably still don't know there were no WMDs. Simple logic should tell you, if you put the drivers in, you have paid for them, so there is less then zero reason to leave them unwired. The whole issue is stupidity, typical sheeple stuff.

They aren't the only company to sell a five dollar version of a 20 dollar iem, with a slightly lower range driver in it. Which, believe it or not, is not illegal. In any country. Don't buy a five dollar ZVX pro. You will be fine. Buy the 20 dollar one. Again, you will be fine. You must be American, I swear, you guys think you are the moral and ethical judge of everyone and everything. I am not the judge of the world. I am the judge of what's in my hand. And my KZ stuff is really good. It's called Capitalism. Caveat Emptor. BTW, the five dollar version of ZVX pro has the Edx pro driver, and it sounds amazing for five dollars. Get off your high horse. I notice you are real quiet about the silent retune of the hidizs 145 planar. Which also involves some changes to the driver. But it's not KZ, so you don't know or care.

Nah, ZVX pro blows them out of the water, and build quality is far better on ZVX pro, solid metal well built

Get ZVX Pro instead, castor is overhyped, ZVX pro is kinda under the radar, it's real good

I did.. My comment wasn't even specifically to you, more of just a general comment, it's always the same little group of iem's, I suppose it's good for those companies, as I would suspect a big portion of noob purchases are one or the other of those. Above, I recommended the KZ ZVX Pro, and herewith I recommend the TRN Conch. They are both really very good.

I would recommend the KZ ZVX Pro, it's about the best they have in the ultra budget space, and frankly, it stomps all over wan'er and stuff like that, around $17, beautiful metal shell, very small and fits great. Keep trying different tips till you get something that works, but the black ones that come with it are actually alright.

This really depends on you. One thing is for sure, Reddit and YouTube videos mostly promote the same things over and over. If you are not intimately familiar with the equipment, you will be buying stuff that all sounds the same, and does not necessarily match your preferences in any way. Yes, a cheap over ear headphone can be more enjoyable then a cheap IEM. But not always. Again, you need to know what to get, and you won't find out on YouTube (unless you can listen to Russian, those guys just don't care, they don't like it, they say it's junk) But following advice online is a downer, and if you are new, it's very likely that your source, DAP or dongle, is nothing special. It's a hard hobby to get into, really. The best thing to do is get yourself to a big audio store and listen to all sorts of IEMs on all sorts of DAPs and dongles. In this market, there is no correlation between price and value received. None. My $17 KZ ZVX Pro out plays many $100 plus units, just as a random example. There is so much competition. It really doesn't take money to get great sound, it takes knowing your own preferences, avoiding the slew of Harman tuned sets that all sound the same, and knowing the tech, so you know what you are buying. ​Also, Eartips fit is the most important aspect of IEM use. Period. If it's wrong, it will sound like trash. If you buy right, $250 will give you amazing sound. Example, Hiby R3 pro 2, kz ZVX pro, kz prx. You got a good single dd, a good planar, and a good player. Sounds excellent and the Hiby unit has mseb, you can tune it how you want. For better sound then that you will spend $800 or so, and it's not four times better.

In all honesty, yes: I have the og Castor Harman, the Zvx pro, the Prx, the (CCA) Rhapsody, amd the AM16 Balanced, and they're all banger, banger sets. I've been lucky and haven't faced breaking QC issues, but then again, what brand doesn't have QC issues?

ZVX PRO is much better.

For balanced sound on a budget, KZ ZVX PRO, TRN MT5 (brighter neutral) Tripowin Vivace (bassy neutral) Truthear Gate, Tanchjim Bunny DSP (the usb c dsp gives it custom tuning presets) or Tanchjim Zero Ultima. A lot of good options, look into the accessories, looks, and tuning on [squig.link](https://squig.link) to figure out which ones right for you.

KZ ZVX PRO for 15$ is insane, or like other guy said EDC PRO/SGOR Venus for less than 10$ if u just wanna try ur first Iem.

Klean is a bit more V shaped for me, the closest one to Chu I tested is ZVX Pro but it has more sub bass