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Still actually the 7HZ Zero 2. Bunnys spike in the uppers are not fun, Castor pro bass is a bit odd but enjoyable at least, waner 2 is tooo vocal. Pure and hexa are mid. Pure neither has enjoyable bass or mids. Hexa is shouty. EM6L is thin. Explorer is dark asf. The only one of these I've had moments of "Oh shit" and jumping up because I thought the sound was next to me, was from the Zero 2. My collection goes into the kilobucks
The explorer is a good choice but if you want to keep the separation and clear delineation between sounds the truthear pure might be better for u
if you want neutrality under 100$ the hexa are the way to go pure is nice too, though it is much warmer with more relaxed treble versus hexa so thats there if you want it. hexa having more clarity and abit of brightness in the treble but both still considered neutral
if you're familiar with openbacks at all the hexa's would be sort of like the more clinical hd560s and the pure would sort of be something like the warmer hd6xx. both generally considered neutral but with slightly differing but still noticeable characteristics. if we were to more finely categorize each of their tuning hexa would be neutral-bright leaning as in slightly more boosted treble and pure would be warm-neutral, more boost in the lower mids and generally darker treble
I won both the Hexa and the Pure. I love the Pure a bit more than the Hexa. Why? The bass performance really fits my ears. it's not too much, it's not less, it's just the right amount for me. The treble is also more pleasing for me. It's so perfect for my ears, the only thing that I don't like is they made the shell a bit big, but it fits my ears and its confortable just like the Hexa.
I own the Hexa and now own a Pure. The Hexa is bright sounding. More detailed, wide soundstage, balanced, and fast bass performance. It's a smooth but lean sounding set. I love both sets, I've been using my Pure with the W1, and it still doesn't disappoint.
I suggest going for the Truthear Pure instead. The Hexa is tuned neutral and has less bass than what you might used to.
Zero red and blue are a bit overrated imo. I would go for the truthear pure if I were you.
Tanchjim Bunny under 50usd Truthear Pure or Hexa (depends on preferred tilt) under 100usd.
Depends on what you consider neutral, I would say the truthear Hexa or Truthear Pure are currently the closest iems to that, which is a tilted DF.
Alright so everybody here has an opinion, most of them based on "trust me bro". There is a bunch of ~20usd iems, all of them having very similar tuning (tuning is ALL that matters in the sound of earphones/headphones). A lot of them, because they are cheap, come with bad cables that break over time (cables are usually the nost fragile thing on this stuff). Thus I would recommend the Truthear Gate, it comes with a cable that is far better than even cables that vome with iems costing 5x the price. Under 100usd, I would recommend the the Truthear Pure. It is tuned to be what we call neutral now (jm1 and -1db/Oct. Tilt), leaning a bit warm. KZ is... questionable. Some praise it for its price to performance, others hate it. What we are certain about is that they do not sound *objecitevly* correct, not even close to it sometimes. On top of that, they got questionable QC... and marketing practices (paying reviewers, silent revisions for the worse...) 7hz Salnotes Zero:2 - is a good option with a solid tuning, but many find it uncomfortable. Edit: The moondrop chu2 is also a solid option, but I would still go for the Gate.
Many peolle here are saying it will be an improvement. It will be, but mainly with music. Airpods, or the wired earpods are already decent enough (also improvements in this hobby are exaggerated because people are perfectionists). Because you spend long hours with things in your ears, Id rather go for something thats more comfortable. If you want them for a quiet enviroment Id check out the legendary koss porta pros, or the koss kph30i. These are excellent cheap headphones. For iems, around 20$ I would choose the Truthear because of its excellent cable, under 100$ it would be the truthear pure as they are well tuned. I wouldnt buy a more expensive iem as your first.
The Truthear Pure is absolutely that. Its very neutral yet warm signature is also a great base for EQing which is what you want to do if you want good sound for cheap. On the other hand the Ew300 is a bad base for EQing.
Speakers are made to be flat for a reason, I dont know why iems shpuld be different in that regard... Pure is the way to go.
Having an iem with a bad signature all across the board like the ew300 is worse than having a (maybe) relatively bass light neutral iem (Hexa/Pure) - it is very easy to EQ in a tasteful bass boost, OP has a dongle dac/amp with PEQ as well so thats not a problem. Hexa was my first iem, I loved it.
Probably the truthear pure/hexa, pure is a bit warmer sounding than hexa (has more lower mids, less highs). If I were to buy and endgame iem, it would be the Truthear Pure with EQ.
I am currently using the truthear PURE as my main, I am personally not a basshead but i feel the PURE is a right balance for me. I did try alot of IEMs like the truthear crincle red , chu 2 , zero 2, truthear hexa, simgot ew300 , but i chose the PURE as it sounded better than the rest to me its is the most balanced option that fit in my price range
Tried the truthear pure first and was blown away with how good music sounded. Then I recently picked up the Simgot EM6L as a gaming set and was super impressed with how good it sounded in valorant and the clarity it had in music
I was also deciding between the two and went with Pure in the end. It's reasonably warm (was initially a bit too warm but I'm used to bright sets) and you can EQ it to your taste easily.
Have you tried Truthear Pure?
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