Blessing 3

So I actually kinda bought a ton of IEMs to answer this question too. I was trying to find something that works for voiceover, for mixing, for critical editing, and for checking how mics sound in reviews. If I had to choose under $300, here’s my categories: * Mixing: Neutral enough to translate well on different setups (HD6xx, speakers, etc.) * Critical editing: Can it expose bad audio or does it hide flaws? * Monitoring: How good it is for hearing your own voice accurately. * Enjoyment: Just how fun it is to listen to. Letshouer Galileo Mixing: Excellent Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent (voice literally sounds just like me when monitoring) Enjoyment: Low Moondrop Blessing 2 / Blessing 3 Mixing: Excellent Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Low (pretty harsh, basically MDR-7506s in IEM form) Zigaat Lush Mixing: Excellent Critical Editing: Below average unless you crank the volume on sibilant spots Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Good

Etymotic ER2XR / ER4XR Mixing: Below average (soundstage is too 2D) Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Okay Crinacle Daybreak (surprisingly) Mixing: Depends—more “Meta” neutral than Etymotic-style Critical Editing: Excellent (picks up sibilance like crazy, great for catching issues) Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: High Xuan NV (big surprise) Mixing: No, too much bass Critical Editing: Excellent (vocals are super accurate for both male and female) Monitoring: Iffy—low impedance can be weird with interfaces like the MOTU M2 Enjoyment: High Thieaudio Legacy 2 Mixing: Excellent Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Decent Cadenza 4 Mixing: Excellent Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Excellent Orchestra Lite Mixing: Excellent (surprisingly neutral—not bright like Blessing 2/3, not warm like Dusk or Lush) Critical Editing: Excellent Monitoring: Excellent Enjoyment: Excellent Basically the Studio4 but more revealing with sibilance instead of smoothing it out. Hexa I don’t really recommend it—too many fit issues and inconsistent impressions. If you do try it, use wide-bore tips (not narrow). Video explaining why: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x-T8el9fbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x-T8el9fbs) Hope this helps.

I agree with that Blessing 3 take! :D That's how I hear it too! :D "Thin, slightly shouty, basically no bass presence, reasonably textured treble. This one's purely for the weebs." Gad damn. That's what I thought too! Agree, ironically, with his take on Airpods Pro 2. Those are honestly really great/awesome especially when you factor size to performance and comfort to performance. Lush is legit. RSV Mark 2 is great. (though I like RSV Mark 1 better) :P There's so much 64 Audio stuff. (I have zero knowledge in that area) (but I am super curious). But there's so much 64 audio stuff on this chart and it's a huge gap in knowledge in my side. :P Agree on Truthear Hola! What a legend at $20. THAT is the $20 iem that was so good for its price. RIP indeed. Agree on the take on Hype 4. That did have a bit too much treble. It's why I don't care for the Hype 4 MARK 2. They added moar treble in Mark 2. no no. Agree on the take of Hexa. Hexa to me is more bright than neutral. And Hexa is very much inconsistent in that there are many people who hate it, but few who love it. I personally hated that shindig. Agree on the Andromeda 2020 take. That IEM is so strange. Usually I associate soundstage and spacious with bright-ish iems. But Andromeda 2020 is undoubtedly warm but has the most soundstage I've ever heard on an iem to date. It's puzzling. Slight disagreement on Letshouer Galileo. To me, Galileo is neutral. Most reviewers call it neutral. Then again, could be another situation where no one is wrong here :P

Just wanted to check—when you compared it to the Fola, were you using the S nozzle (default) or the D nozzle? I ask because I’ve noticed the D nozzle pushes it warmer, while the S nozzle is almost a Tanchjim Origin-type tuning. How would you compare the warmth of Surface compared to Truthear Hexa and Truthear Pure? Is it brighter or warmer than Hexa? Is it brighter or warmer than Pure? Then again...you may not have those models. It's interesting there's no squigs from Mark, Hangout, literally anyone I know. This is freaking brand new :D But at least from what's available this seems to be far more enjoyable than Blessing 3, (I hated the Blessing 3) which is a great thing https://preview.redd.it/atfqs6lg6sag1.png?width=957&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba8d3b49c4105dcc26e33c397a90ee7bb91dad6b

Moondrop Blessing 3 Shouty. Sibilant. Bright.

**Iems that look good that sound pretty good** Juzear Defiant, Celest Wyveryn Abyss, RSV Mark 1, Tea Pro, Dusk, Tanchjim Origin, Celest Pandamon 2.0 (I like it anyway), Yu9 Que, Elysian Pilgrim, EM6L (with Kiwi ears flex eartips), Dunu Kima 2, Sivga Que, Zigaat Lush, Misty Blue, Cadenza 4, Kiwi Ear Astral, Moondrop Variations, Twistura Woodnote, Fosi IM4 (but some eq may be needed), Xuan NV, IER M7, Kiwi Ear Orchestra Lite (in green), Tanchjim Fola, Softears Studio 4, Truthear Hola, Shure SE846, Andromeda 2020, Softear Volume S **Iems that look good that I don't like the sound of** Moondrop Blessing 3, Tipsy M3 (their shells looks sick), Chu 2 (used to like it but standards have went up), 7hz G1 (looks sick in white) (sounds bad tho), Kiwi Ears Cadenza (purple) (it's pretty but vocals are too thin), Mega5EST (pretty shell) (sleepy sounding to me), RSV Mark 2 (sick design) (but the bass gets overbearing over time), A bunch of Zigaats look nice but I didn't like them (Ziggat Arcanis, Zigaat Crescent, Zigaat Odyssey), Canpur Silver Flash, Inawaken Twilight (Harman 2019, hate it), Chopin (thin vocals), Letshouer S08 (sick in black) (I used to like it but don't like it as much anymore), Kiwi Ears Cadenza v2 (pretty faceplate but cookie-cutter sound), a crapton of Simgots have beautiful faceplates but I don't like how they sound (EW200, EW300, Supermix 4, all of them except EM6L), Crinacle Blue Zero (harsh), Crinacle Blue Zero 2 (harsh at high volume), Truthear Nova (gorgeous shell, quite a unpleasant sounding iem), Phoenix call version 1 (gorgeous shell but lackluster sound), Dunu Falcon Ultra (gorgeous shell but imo can get harsh at times)

I don't like the word 'trust' here. But I'll say that there are iem reviewers I'm more in sync with. I sort of look at reviews sort of like everyone with a map in a forest. If every damn person says there's a tree next to a lake, there's a 100% likelihood that exists. But if every reviewer says the birds are in one direction and another, there's definitely some variance. So here goes: **JayAudio.** He loves the Zigaat Odyssey v1, Chopin, Truthear Nova, Supermix 4. He loves Hexa and hates Pure. He likes Arcanis. He loves a TON of Simgot iems. I think his preferences are--> V-shaped and bright. Or Harman. >!I don't like the Odyssey, Chopin, Supermix 4 or any Harman Iems. I also like Pure more than Hexa. I hate nearly all Simgot iems. Nearly all Simgot iems are super bright, shouty, sibilant and thin with vocals. But hey, that's just me. I also think the Arcanis is ironically bad with vocals, male vocals in particular. That said I hate Harman 2019 iems, imo they make vocals too thin. Also. He called the Supermix 4 "buttery smooth". I assure you it is NOT "buttery smooth"!!!!!!!!< **Mark (Super Reviews)** \- He likes Hexa. He likes Blessing 3. Ranked it 5 stars. He calls Moondrop LAN an S-tier iem. I think his preferences are--> Neutral bright. Lean bass. >!The Blessing 3 isn't a 5 star iem. It's a 2 star iem for me. ;P I like watching his reviews because if he warns about problems with an iem, he's spot on.!< **Precog.** He leans bright. And expensive. 😃 He values treble a lot. But I can't give a definitive answer because 99% of the iems he's reviewed are above the price of a car. I find that at least with the cheaper iems he managed to review, I agree with him. He has to review more peasant iems. And he needs a shirt. **Jaytiss.** He ranks Hola, Sivga Que, Etymotic ER2xr as F. That's all I need to know. >!To me those iems are not F. I freaking adore the Hola and Sivga Que. So when someone says to me, but Jaytiss reviewed this A, I go..so?! But imo this is important to know.!< **Zeo Reviews.** He likes everything.>! But you should tread caution with actually buying everything he recommends.!< **Andy Vault**. He likes everything. >!But imo that's dangerous to a wallet.!< >!If he was a real estate agent, this is what he'd do.!< >! If the house was small he'd say 'it's quaint'. If it's a crime scene, he'd say, "It's lively and has character." !< >!If it's tattered and dirty, 'it's rustic'. !< >!I legitimately watched his "walkthrough" of Zigaat iems (I already tested all those iems but wanted to hear what he said) and walked away thinking, holy hell, that video told me nothing rofl. !< **Paul Wasabi.** I find I'm in sync with a lot of his reviews. He never outright says he hates an iem. But you can tell with more subtle things he's doing in his video. If he didn't like the iem he does a ton of eq on it and shows you how he's eqing it. You can tell what he's adding or taking away to know what's wrong with the iem. **Audio Amigo.** He does an excellent job of describing everything about the iem and I walk away with a good understanding what it'll sound like.>! I'm a bit skeptical now that he's joined the land of the Overseers. (shaking head) We lost a good reviewer 😛 I liked him a lot more when he wasn't owned by Linsoul 😄 !We both found Blessing 3 shouty and sibilant! The only gap I see is that he has a CRAPTON of 64 audio iems that he ranked super high and I have no way of knowing whether those are good or not. 64 audio iems are not in Amazon. But I don't feel like losing hundreds of dollars if I return it (15% return charge); 64 Audio's return policies hurt a lot more because their iems are thousands of dollars so 15% is a lot. >!I also can tell a lot of people who are selling 64 audio iems on Avexchange lost thousands of dollars without them saying they lost thousands of dollars lol!< **Bangaudio Reviews.** He's another Zeos. He likes everything. >!He's veering towards unreliable.!< **Akros.** He's too wordy and rambly. Hot take, but I actually use Gemini to summarize his takes because he's all over the place.

PART II **Prime Audio Reviews** I like him. He's concise. And he's actually quite honest. I'm pretty calibrated with him. I listen very closely to how he uses the word "lean." If he says "lean" like 7 times on an IEM, I back the fuck off. Because he nailed it 1000% every.single.time. Ie., lean bass, lean mids, lean here. Every single time he calls an iem "lean", he nailed it. I buy it. I hear it. And I think, "Damn. He was right." There's a certain way he says it. Almost like if you wanted to know about someone and you ask, "Is she cute? or "Is he cute?" and he says, "Well.....(cough)....she's uh....(coughs)...I mean....She's tall." It's the saying without the saying. And it's VALUABLE! He's also extremely descriptive and to-the-dot in his reviews. He's, imo, one of the most indispensable reviewers for me. Very few times do I disagree with him on an IEM. He never says it's bad. He says it in a way...where you have to know his lingo. "Um, well the bass...lacks....authority. Lean. Quite lean......" --> translation: It's bad. **Passion for Sound** He's good at telling you about things that are new. He's not the best at telling you what he hates or dislikes. I look at him more like a paper catalog. **HBB Reviews** My overall take is that if I were a hip-hop and rap guy, I'd love his channel. Every time I click on one of his videos, I see his gloves and hear some hip-hop song. Problem is, I don't listen to hip-hop. And I don't picture HBB as the kind of guy who listens to Matt Prasty K-pop remixes lol. That said, I love Xuan NV IEM and he tuned that iem. **Fresh Reviews** I don't know enough to form an opinion. But he's gaming-focused. So anyone who wants to know about gaming IEMs, I just say go to his channel. **Practiphile** I actually like his reviews a lot. Cool cat! He's entertaining to watch, but he's also pretty clear about what he likes and is good at describing an IEM. I do find his grading confusing at times, ROFL. He ranks the Cadenza 2 the same grade as the Yu9 Que. And I'm literally bashing my head on the monitor! But preferences are preferences. He liked the Celest Pandamon. I liked that. He liked the Kima 2 and the Pure. I liked those. He likes the Defiant. I liked that too. He loved the Misty Blue. I adore that IEM. He liked the Divine. I liked that too. He loved the Studio 4, Pilgrim, Astral, Reference, and Volume S (though I returned it because it sounds too much like Pure). I loved those too. But he also has some outliers. Ie., he loved the Chopin and EA1000, and I didn't like those. So with him, I view it as maybe 70/30. About 70% of the IEMs he likes, I like. About 30% of the IEMs he likes, I don't.