Shangguan Wan'er Studio Edition

# Tangzu Wan'er Studio Edition Excellent bright leaning dry but slightly warm, shimmery and emotional vocals. Impactful non-bloated bass, tonality expert with a hint artificial highs for rock and metal. # Build and Comfort The cabe is bad to average, and the ear hooks are stiffened, but they can be custom-molded if you take the time and effort. The packaging is quite good for the price and it comes with 5 different types of eartips. # Tonality and Vocal Performance It has a light note weight and leans ever slightly bright but never feels thin. Amazing vocals at the price. Vocals are slightly dry, but there's enough warmth that it never feels thin. It's still soft, smooth and shimmery. They are front and center, very intimate and emotional. It's the best vocals I've heard in an IEM. It's not silky, but there's enough warmth that it feels full and very accurate. It handles pop, R&B, and even hip-hop amazingly. # Technical Performance Instruments are separated very well. You can hear them coming out of different places in its audio space, and you can feel the instruments. Imaging on it is very average. You can't track instruments very clearly, and they do jump in and out abruptly. It's not good for gaming, point blank. The sound stage is also very good for the price, there's enough width and height it never feels the widest but it's never claustrophobic. Instruments are very well spaced and layered. # Bass Performance Perfect bass quantity. It doesn't rumble or grumble (it does have a good amount of bass), but it's present and you can feel it, especially at higher volume. Even at lower volume, it still has impact. It's not the fastest, but it is fast enough that it has enough punch while not being slow enough to sound bloated. It's my benchmark for how I like my bass, although sub-bass is clearly lacking for genres that need a strong sub-bass slam like hip-hop but I will always choose this over something that's more fatiguing. # Treble / High-end Performance Treble is very well extended, it isn't sharp or harsh by any means. You won't get a very sharp attack on cymbals & hi-hats but there's enough energy for it to sound sound smooth and satisfying. The air is very well extended giving it a very airy presence. Like i said the treble can veer artificial for some on genres like metal and rock, but at this price there's little room for complaint, they still handle even those genres fairly well. And you're likely to not have that issue if you use wide bore eartips. In fact, to me it does much better than the brighter, and sharper 7hz G1. The highs on pop and R&B tracks sound very smooth. It has just the right amount of sparkle, shimmer, and air. I perceive it to be excellent for said genres. It also resolves details very well without ever being sharp for sibilant. # Eartips and Synergy I used the eartips that came with these by default. When I used other eartips, both the ones that came with it and others that I have, it sounded way worse. The artificialness of the highs became concentrated. The default wide-bore eartip balances it out, and with it, these become my favorite IEM so far and my golden tuning of choice. I've had countless eargasms with these. Huge shoutout to Dracomies for shilling these, he's the goat. # Long-Term Listening I can listen to these 24/7, 365 days a year and still not be tired or fatigued, yet still enjoy them like the first day. I think this set sounds exceptionally good at lower volume, which is hoe i listen to them for the most part and why I like them so much as they don't have any faults at lower volumes. quite literally perfect sounding, plenty of detail, enough bass impact, and excellent vocals. (Although I need to get moisture out of them with silica gel every now and then when i notice them starting to sound more plasticky and lose detail.) # VS Sivga Que Better bass to my preference. More shimmery and airy even at lower volume. More intimate and emotional mids even at lower volumes, same with the highs and bass. The Que is way more technical and is better if you prefer a more lush vocal presentation. I prefer how the vocals on the Studio Edition are colored (more neutral with only slight warmth) than the more viscous-sounding Que. # VS DUNU Titan S The Wan'er washes the Titan S in tonality for pop, R&B, and hip-hop, at least at lower volumes, but at higher volume it's a very close call. The Titan is a little thinner sounding. The Wan'er has better vocals, more intimate and forward mids, and better shimmer and air. However, the Titan beats the Wan'er in technicalities, treble extension (though I think the Wan'er still has more air to it), and execution for rock, metal, and similar genres. It also has a more tactile, cleaner bass, although the Wan'er has better impact. # VS Truthear x Crinacle Zero:RED The Wan'er beats the Red in the same departments as the Titan, and vice versa. The Red has better bass and sub-bass too, both in tightness, impact, and quantity. While the Titan is a little thin, the Red is more smoothed-over in its mids than the Wan'er. I clearly prefer the more natural mids of the Wan'er. # Final Thoughts Discontinued, and it deserves a successor with better accessories and better drivers. It's exceptionally well tuned and is in a league of its own in its price range. From the research I've done, in order to one up these you would have to shill out 300-400$, for either the studio 4 or the orchestra lite which is crazy. The Red Lion uses the same driver as these , and they are Tangzu's best-selling IEMs ever, which means these could've been just as successful as the Red Lion without all the bass bloat. It's a huge misstep on Tangzu's part how they decided to package the Studio Edition but I feel like it wasn't as successful because people in this price range want maximum impact that can immediately be perceived and it requires acquired taste to appreciate this style of tuning. If you have suggestions for me as a direct upgrade to these, please let me know. Budget is 150-200$. I'm broke. P.S These are obviously discontinued but a store in Vietnam still has it in stock (yea i looked everywhere) , if anyone is willing to drop ship it off them, please let me know. It's also available on alibaba but the seller that has it says that mcq is 20 pieces and no less. Links: [https://taingheviet.com/tangzu-waner-sg-studio-edition-pr11749.html](https://taingheviet.com/tangzu-waner-sg-studio-edition-pr11749.html) [https://www.alibaba.com/x/18BGyA?ck=pdpo](https://www.alibaba.com/x/18BGyA?ck=pdpo) Edit: Just found out that its still available on taobao, just search "tangzu" and it should be there.

isn't that site scabbing with the price cus it shows 4x the original price. ofc i can buy it too from my local ecom site for that price. if it's a different one do send me a dm.

Enhorabuena por la reseña. Soy usuario de KZ desde el año pasado que me compré mis primeros IEM: Los Castor Bass Es. Hace unos días compré los Castor Pro Harman... y menuda decepción para mi gusto. Súper brillantes en agudos hasta el ounto de molestar. Quería algo menos basshead y no lo acerté. Devolví y me compre los Wan'er Jade. Espectaculares. Tengo en mente estos q reseñas, pero me frena el hecho que sean abiertos.... los uso en transporte público...

Can you get a hold of the wan’er sg studio edition? That’d be my pick in your price range

Yes. Cleaner, clearer treble and modest, but good bass. They’re a vocal/acoustic oriented tuning. I think you’d love them if you can get them

Here is a link if you can access AliExpress: I just found this on AliExpress: | TANGZU WAN ER STUDIO Edition In Ear Monitors 10mm PET Diaphragm Dynamic Driver Replaceable 0.78mm 2Pin HiFi Wired Music Earphone https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr0eivr

A common problem with many high-end IEMs, they have almost fully sealed design - better sound isolation, and possibly allows them to have better control of acoustics/resonances, but ultimately makes most of those high-end IEMs unusable for long-term listening sessions. The best sounding IEM under 1300$ I found after listening to dozens of them is 7th Acoustic Supernova and it has the same pressure issue. Better for your ears and hearing to avoid these IEMs entirely. Also, keep in mind that all these expensive IEMs do not provide much of improvement sound-wise over these 2 IEMs that are as close to reference sound as I could find: Wan'er Studio Edition (only WHITE one) or Moondrop Starfield (unfortunately no longer produced, so hard to find). Both of these do not have any "pressure" issue. But if you still want to use the tight-sealed ones, then the only workaround I found is as follows: when you insert the IEM into your ear canal, push the silicone ear tip against one of the ear canal walls, for example push it downwards, so that upper part of the silicone tip does not seal the ear canal and still allows some air to go through while you insert the IEM. You try to insert the IEM this way as deep as possible, deeper than you would usually/comfortably put them in, when you can't insert it any deeper then stop pushing the silicone tip towards the wall, so it unfolds and seals the ear canal. You will feel slight pressure on ear drum. After that you just slightly pull the IEMs from you ears, reducing the pressure, while still keeping them in your ear and sealed. You might do it couple of times until you get to the optimal pressure, cause its hard to get it right on the first try.

Just buy Tangzu Wan'er Studio Edition. If you mostly use IEMs in low-noise environments, then it could your end game. If not - at least you will have a reference IEM with the most correct sound to compare other IEMs with it.

For its price wan'er studio edition is very impressive for what it does.