Unicrom

The Unicrom comes with four differently colored and patterned faceplates. The yellow faceplate appears to be natural wood. They all look so nice that I wouldn't care which color I would receive. https://preview.redd.it/x3g1ofgnaphf1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=871427704f85b78aed41a8691a444787dac88006

That was a long yet a very enjoyable read. I also really enjoyed viewing your tons of really nice photos. I have only two of your seven IEMs -- The Quatio and the Unicrom. My favorite eartips for the Quatio are the SednaEarfit Light even though the Tang Sancai Balanced eartips also are very good. I feel that the SednaEarfit Light eartips tightened up the bass a bit versus the Tang Sancai Balanced eartips even though I do use the Tang Sancai Balanced eartips on many other IEMs. I really like the Tang Sancai Wide Bore eartips with the Unicrom since these wide bore eartips slightly lowers the sub bass such that the sub bass has a similar intensity as the mid bass for a more natural bass sound. The Unicrom's overall sound signature is very similar to the Truthear Hola. Both of these IEMs have a relaxing overall sound signature since both the Hola and the Unicrom have a slightly relaxed scope for the rise in the simulated pinna gain and since both have a peak which is at 4 kHz instead of 3 kHz. It is so easy for me to relax and chill when listening to the Unicrom, just as I used to do three years ago when I listened to the Hola in the evenings. It is also really slick that you tested each IEM with six different yet popular eartips.

I don't see the Pula Unicrom listed even though it was strongly hyped. I really like the Unicrom as a relaxing yet decently detailed set which I like to listen to when I want to chill.

I would pick either the Defiant or the Unicrom. The Defiant is slightly more fun. The Unicrom is slightly more relaxing. Both are very nice IEMs.

I really like the Pula Unicrom for both male and female vocals.

**Hey everyone!** **Disclaimer:** I’m by no means an expert in reviewing IEMs, so if you’re looking for in-depth frequency graphs or technical breakdowns, I recommend checking other reviewers. These IEMs were sent to me by HifiGo for testing, and here’s my honest opinion. I mainly compared them to my **PULA PA02** and **INAWAKEN DAWN**. # Sound **Bass (7/10):** The bass is good and rich, but it lacks some detail. **Mids (7/10):** The mids are present and might feel a bit too forward for some listeners, but I personally enjoyed them. In certain tracks, they felt slightly laid-back, but overall, they were pleasant. **Treble (5/10):** Compared to the PA02, the treble is lacking in detail and may disappoint lot's of people. **Soundstage (7/10):** This was a pleasant surprise—the soundstage feels wider than on the PA02. However, due to the weaker treble, some finer details are lost. Accessories |Pros|Cons| |:-|:-| |Nice cable with both 4.4mm and 3.5mm connectors|Cable is thick but doesn’t feel very robust (still does the job)| |Carrying case is spacious enough to hold the IEMs and a small portable DAC/AMP |Yellow color is more of a brownish-yellow| |Decent ear tips included|Tips are fine, but nothing special| # Fit This was the biggest surprise for me—they fit better than any sub-$100 IEM I’ve tried. The fit is much much superior to the **INAWAKEN DAWN** and **Kefine Klear** for sure. **Conclusion** For an $80 IEM, the **PULA Unicrom** is a solid contender in the under-$100 category and works great as a daily driver. I’d happily use it for commuting, office work, or gaming, and keep my higher-end IEMs for more detailed and relaxed listening sessions. You can currently get a 10$ discount using 818UNICROM on both AliExpress and HiFiGo from the 14th to the 28th

Currently testing the PULA Unicrom and I think they will be hard to beat under 100 USD. I think they may be a good entry level IEM if you like BASS and smooth MIDs and decent soundstage. The fit is better than any IEM I tried under 100 USD honestly.

The Defiant is more balanced, but I actually like the Pula Unicrom more. It doesn't have any weird pressure build up issues. It has a more premium feel, and a nicer accessories package. And none of the QC issues the Defiant has. For the money though, the Defiant is hard to beat.

Good day, everyone. So here is my review of a relatively new set of IEMs from the brand Pula, the Unicrom (1DD per side). First off, a disclaimer: these were provided to me by HiFiGo for review free of charge, and all they asked for was my honest thoughts, so take this review with as big a grain of salt as you believe that merits. That said, all opinions here are fully my own, and I have made the attempt to review these as if I had bought them with my own personal money. So with that out of the way, I'll continue with the review. These are currently selling on HiFiGo (https://hifigo.com/products/pula-unicrom?srsltid=AfmBOorMerY11jawXW5dFOyVkjBieHRxsEVJ77st8CjhgM1Wu1p7a63p) at 69.99 but the normal list price would be 79.99. Most of this review was done powering them out of my Fiio BTR13, but I also tested them with both the DTC DACs from Dunu, and straight out of the audio port of my phone. The graph presented is of my units, measured by Kr0mka (I will link his squiglink here https://kr0mka.squig.link/?share=%CE%94_JM-1_DF_Target,nova_green_y2_velvet&bass=5&tilt=-0.8&treble=0&ear=0 ; check him out, he's a cool guy and really good at measurements). TLDR: These do not reinvent the wheel but they are a solid warm leaning v-shape tuned entry into the very competitive under 100 price bracket. They provide a good value package and competent technicalities. The tuning style is quite easy to like and good for beginners. Starting from the unboxing experience, it feels more expensive than the price suggests, the box is high quality and it would be appropriate for iems at basically any price level. The earpieces are well secured, and I don't think they will have any problems over shipping. As for the accessories package, it's a mixed bag with both high highs and low lows. It comes with a small, green leatherette case branded with Pula, which feels very high quality and has a magnetic lid that closes securely. It is also a really good size (about the size of a cigarette pack, but thicker); it fits the IEMs, a small DAC, and some tips, which is everything you'd ever need for a grab and go package and its small size makes it very pocketable and easy to carry. Another good thing that comes with them is the cable, which at 80 dollars is exceptional. It's a brown braided cable that is twisted very neatly. It's actually quite similar to the one from the previously reviewed vulkan 2 by DUNU but thinner and lighter. It's got great behavior, almost no memory, little microphonics and also has an exchangeable plug (3.5 and 4.4 plugs provided) that is butter smooth and locks down well when screwed down. The 2 pin connector fits snugly into the iem port and is easy to tell apart as they are marked with very visible L and R markings on the outside, it also has a small spacer in case you want to put it on recessed port iems, which is quite nice. Here is where I have a complaint about them, I didn't like any of the tips that came with them, they have 2 sets, a opaque white set and a blue set, the opaque white set made them sound quite bad (I'll go deeper into that in the sound section of the review) and the blue set fixed the sound issues but I found them quite uncomfortable. I understand that those issues are not universal and many people might not suffer from them but they need to be mentioned. I will be making this review based on my sound impressions from the provided blue tips because I understand that not everyone has access to as many ear tips as I but if you do buy it do yourself a favor and get yourself a set of DUNU candy tips, they make them sound the best to me and provide upgraded comfort over any of the provided tips. In terms of price range competition DUNU really has it on lock with their titan s2, but this one comes in an acceptable second place. As for the IEMs themselves, they are solidly bland in terms of aesthetics. They are a full resin build with average sizing and a metal grill on the nozzle. The faceplate is stabilized maple wood which leads to a luck of the draw situation where some examples will have more interesting details and look cooler than others, mine are quite plain in that aspect, with my left one being relatively featureless and my right one having an interesting tiger stripe pattern and some off color spots. I got the black colorway but I think the green one is the way to go. They also offer them in yellow and dark blue. Their party trick is how insanely light they are, weighing less than 7 grams, which is featherweight in comparison with others in the price range such as the aria 2, the titan s2, even the hexa. This makes them ideal for people that are not used to iems or get annoyed by having heavier weights in their ears. The semi custom shell is not extremely pronounced but I did get a bit of a hotspot with the provided blue tips after a while (the candy tips all but solved this and made them extremely comfortable for me, even after several hours of use), but as always this will depend on your ear shape. The nozzle is on the small side ( 5.1 mm ) but presents a pretty substantial lip ( 6.3mm ) that can cause discomfort and although prevents tips from slipping off, makes them a bit hard to put on, especially if they are narrow bore tips. Given they are hollow resin shells they don't feel fragile but I would also advise giving them more care than metal shell iems as they could chip or crack if treated improperly. They have 2 vent holes, one by the driver and one by the cable port, and I had no issues with pressure buildup. It's easy to tell the shells apart at a glance as they have really visible L and R markings on the inside which is quite useful when taking them in and out of your ears. Now for sound impressions, keep in mind I would describe myself as a treblehead so this set is not tuned to my preferred sound signature, but I understand most people like warmer iems rather than sharper ones and I will put in effort to give insights that are as tuning agnostic as possible. The first thing I did was put them on the white tips that came with them, and if those were the only tips they had this review would be written very differently. I heavily disliked my first impressions with them on those tips, they didn't work for me at all. They made the mids sound congested and flat, and the treble sharp and metallic. The soundstage felt nonexistent and it killed all technicalities. I couldn't make it three songs in before I changed them to the blue tips. This transformed the sound signature quite significantly and made them enormously more enjoyable to listen to, in spite of the slight comfort problems they gave me. From this and further testing I found that in my ears there were quite sensitive to different tips, and having tested them with: the DUNU sns, candy, atmosphere, vocal, basic, the TRI clarion, the moondrop basic tips and the bundled truthear hexa tips I found that the candy tips were the ones that worked the best for me, but that said I do recommend eartip experimentation with these, more than some other iems. My overall sound impression is that these are quite pleasant. They present a warm v shape, their focus is a quite nice meaty bass that gives a lovely background on which to build the music. There is some bass bleed but not too much, and the mids are coherent and correct, but a bit slow and can smudge in faster or more complex pieces. The treble is recessed in comparison to the bass but it's still noticeable, it does have some incisiveness but I don't think it will bother a majority of people as it is well balanced by the elevated bass. My favorite aspect of these is the fact that they make the music sound large and enveloping rather than diffuse. I think a very easy to like tuning for most people with enough energy to be fun but not fatiguing. It works fairly well for most music but excels in reproducing music like classic rock, electronic music, metal (as long as it isn't something like speed or orchestral metal) rap, and hiphop. Starting from the bass, it's the focal point of the tuning, as stated before, it's thick and meaty, with very solid dynamics, it slams hard when it needs to and rumbles when it doesn't. It's very fun and gives a great experience when listening to bassier genres. If I had to pick nits, I'd wish the transition between bass and mids was a bit cleaner, as it bleeds in a bit, but honestly it's a miniscule complaint. The mids of this iem are competent but nothing mindblowing, they present information well in most tracks and have a nice musicality to them. Despite the v shape they are not buried in the mix. These do something that sets them apart from other iems, they emphasize male vocals more than female ones, giving them a nice depth and gravitas that makes some songs very powerful. Female vocals aren't bad but if those are what you are looking for them these are not the iems I would recommend to you. The problem with these is that when playing faster or more complex genres like speed and orchestral metal the mids do flatten out a bit and squeeze together, hurting instrumental separation and making them feel more imprecise. The treble of this iem is what I would call it's weak spot. It's not as noticeable in the mix and while it's quick and snappy, but it's a bit jagged and peaky in my opinion. I would love if these had more focus on both the low and the high treble, to add more sparkle and air to them, but as stated above, I'm a treblehead so while I wish they had more, I don't find anything in the treble they have to be dealbrakingly wrong or offensive, it's just a bit off the mark. I think its technicalities are competent at the price but nothing to write home about, the soundstage is more on the intimate side but as long as the music isn't extremely fast instrument separation and placement are solid. Now for the comparison section, I'll try and compare them to things in a similar price range, but sadly I haven't had the opportunity to try every IEM, so some that I would have liked to compare them too but haven't heard are: the truthear pure, the aful explorer, the letshouer s08, the kbear kb02, the kiwiears cadenza, any simgot, the juzear defiant. Vs the DUNU Kima 2: they have more bass than the kima 2 and it's better, slammer and more physical. They have about the same amount of treble but the Pula is sharper, overall the Pula is much less laid back, much lighter but less comfortable in my ears and feels less well built, but it's also cheaper, I prefer the Pula cable and case but the rest of the package pales in comparison to the kima. Vs the moondrop Aria 2: its bass feels more uncontrolled and flabby in comparison to the Pula. Its mids are also less clear than on the Pula. The shape is less comfortable for me but they are much heavier, its treble feels less precise, a bit fartier (if that makes sense). Vs the Kinera aviation: it's much more obviously v shaped, and it buries the mids much more than the Unicrom. It's way too "fun" and aggressive for me. I found it more technical but it's also more expensive by a relatively large amount. Vs the Kinera idun Golden: it's better built and much prettier. It is also more comfortable in my ears. It has the problem of driver flex which sucks. In comparison to the Unicrom its treble is fuller, while the bass is much leaner, making them polar opposites. It has better technicalities. theoretically the idun is more to my tastes but the bass is way too dry and lets them down. Vs the truthear Nova: its shells are much chunkier but fit my ears better. These are a classic Harmon type tuning with all that entails, they are much wider but leaner in general than the Unicrom. The bass isn't as warm and present. It also has better technicalities, a more present treble yet it's better done, less sharp and more sparkling, soundstage is noticeably wider, about 50% more expensive. Vs the kinera Vesper 2: these have really bad driver flex. They somehow managed to both be more anemic sounding yet have worse bass bleed into the mids. They feel more muted in the mids, treble is smoother but less exciting. They feel like a less refined version of the tuning, less technical, would take the Pula over these 10 times out of 10. Vs the truthear hexa: At this point even years after its launch I still think these are the undisputed kings of the under 100 dollar price range (and over it as well, very few things I've heard beat them even at around 300 dollars). That said I understand why they are contentious amongst the general public, with their lack of bass and relatively relatively treble focused tuning, so while I think the hexa is an overall better iem than the Pula, I think I would still recommend the Pula to people that just want more bass than what the hexa can provide. It's a second place in the price range but there is no shame in being second to such a dominant force like the hexas. Overall these are very pleasant to listen to, and at the price point they are a very solid set for beginners and enthusiasts alike to get a fun and warm listen with a great cable and case in a comfortable shell. Songs I use to do preliminary tests on IEMs (I listen to much more if I have the time, but these are a minimum before I solidify my opinion.) ALI WILD SIDE Ski mask the slump god Faucet Failure Beelzebub's Cathedrals of Mourning Aliceband Wolf Fukashigi no carte An Unkindness Fragments Big wild City of Sound Antonio Banderas Canción del Mariachi Malcura Gerudo Valley Berlioz deep in it Thank you guys for your time; I'll be happy to answer any questions or pass on any suggestions to HiFiGo. Good day!

Pula unicrom+ hiby fc3. Budget endgame.