ZiiGaat - Horizon

Odyssey, Crescent and Horizon are all fire. Throw a dart, get great IEMs.

The Horizon is definitely their most interesting product to me. I already own the Odyssey and it’s my favorite IEM pair. Thanks for the giveaway!

Luna or Horizon. I live my Doscincos, so I’ve turned into a big fan of Ziigaat!

Obviously the ZiiGaat Horizon looks interesting as it's their first foray into planars. I've always quite liked the ZiiGaat Doscinco and the ZiiGaat Luna. Only ZiiGaat iem I currently own is the Cinno.

Ziigaat Horizon! Amazing for vocals. Tribrid 1DD for Lows, 2 BA for Mids, 2 planar for Treb.

I love planar magnetics, so definitely the Horizon

The Luna and the Horizon personally

[Full Comparison/Review](https://youtu.be/B1DqoqBSsqQ) ***vs Astral, Crescent, YU9 Que & more*** Horizon Ranked: [JAY's IEM Ranking List](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZHVib50XFQW4up3SwOZUTbI-hZB6Ir5LX6XnZblIM6o/edit?usp=sharing) Horizon Graphed [Here](https://jaysaudio.github.io/index.html?share=Harman_2019,HORIZON_BLACK,HORIZON_CLEAR) \--- **OVERALL SOUND:** Bright leaning all-rounder with a detailed treble playback. Great technical performance for the price with pin-point and "OCD like" transients * Mid-volume set with a lively but still well-balanced tonality * Bass is well controlled, tight, quick, snappy, and punchy with enough fullness and body * Vocals are at a normal distance/slightly laid back with an airy decay and shine to them, great for female artists, but also full enough and not shouty * Treble has an airiness filled with micro-nuances, and a slight sparkle to the transients, giving it a sharp attack that creates a sense of pin-point and "tinglyness" to the sound * Has enough body and fullness in the low-end to ground the treble from being too bright or overly artificial sounding * Brief comparison to its similar competition: * Astral: Most dynamic all-rounder, sub-bass focused, most contrast and fun * Crescent: Warm and sparkly all-rounder with good detail * Luna: Warm and airy all-rounder, best scaling, and most "unique" sound * Horizon: Bright/sparkly all-rounder with the most detail but doesn't scale too well * Reminds me of a slightly more v-shaped TOP PRO with more bass and treble **Volume Scaling/Genre Rec:** * Recommend listening volume is around 65-70dbs with R&B, rock, pop, indie, acoustics, classical - slow ballads can scale a little better around 75dbs * Can be fatiguing on more energetic POP/KPOP/JPOP due to the brighter leaning treble and the amount of detail it pulls (for reference I was hovering around 60dbs on Butterfly by Loona) * Mid-volume set, and doesn't scale as well vs the Lunas or Odysseys **Technical Performance:** * Punches above its price, and slightly more detailed than the Dusk, Pilgrim, Supermix4 * Lots of treble detail, quick and pin-point transients, good amount of air, well layered * Tastefully done bright coloration that gives it a "High-fidelity" sound **Build & Fit:** * Average size, around the same size as the Crescent, Astrals, and OG Odyssey * I have average size ears and it fits me snug and comfy * Around 6mm nozzle size including outer ring **Accessories & Packaging (see 3rd pic):** * Mountain sparkle star face plate? Giving me "graphics design is my passion" vibes * Comes with interchangeable black cable 3.5/4.4mm, and sturdy brown leather case with lots of room real estate * x1 pack of clear tips, x1 pack of their new black tips, x1 pack foam tips * Decent unboxing/accessories at its price, no complaints **Final Ranking & Recommendation:** Mid-volume (65-70 dbs) * Tonality: 7.5/10 * Tech: 7.5-8/10 * Overall: 7.5/10 **RECOMMENDED (don't crank these)** The Horizon is one of the best price to performance sets around $300 with the dynamics in the treble to back it up. If you're just looking for detail - then these are great. However, if you already own similar Meta inspired sets like the Astrals and Crescent for example, then the small differences might not be justified given their similarities - but if you don't have any of those then forget what I just said. The treble is also tastefully done and not overly aggressive, jarring, and unnatural (my unit at least), and I would put these up there with the Letshuoer Cadenza 4 when it comes to being one of the best bright leaning sets under $500 - Cad4 is airy and smooth, and Horizon is lively/sparkly. As long as you're not blasting these (which you shouldn't be) - then you might just end up getting addicted to its sound.

Lmao you guys are overhyping the Horizon. I listened to it at CanJam and while it's pretty good $329 is not really a bargain price for it let alone it being endgame worthy.

I tried several Ziigaat IEMs at CanJam, and among them I was most impressed with the Arcanis. The Horizon was my second favorite but if I was to buy one Ziigaat IEM it would be the Arcanis.

I'm actually most interested in the ZiiGaat Horizon! I have a ZiiGaat Odyssey and think it's hard to top in its price range.

Hey the ZiiGaat Horizon have the best design and after trying at a show they would be the ones I would choose.

20-36kHz? How is that possible? I'm super impressed with the drivers, and the price? $329? wow. Ordered from Amazon and will be delivered tomorrow... will be giving impressions of these beauties soon after.

Yeah it would be the Horizon for that Planar zing, but I’m curious about the Odyssey 2 as well.

I'm excited to hear the flat 6khz-15khz treble range. All the planars and micro planar tribrids/hybrids normally have a peak at or around 8khz, aside from the martilos which have a dip at 8khz. This is where the Horizon stands out from the rest. I assume this will make it easier to listen to music at louder volumes, which always makes everything sound better. Reminds me of the celest phoenixcall, which has the same driver configuration for $50-100. Clear shell with visible sound tubes as well. I wish Ziigaat would adopt clear shells that seem to look great no matter how messy the wiring is put together (or just crammed into the shell lol. It always looks good regardless).

Horizon and the Luna. I have their cincotres that are pretty good for the price. With a touch of eq mind you 😉

Like most folks here, the Odyssey and the Horizon is what I would say that I prefer from Ziigaat. I like the continued use of knowles BA drivers in a lot of these sets. I really liked them in the Arcadia.

Horizon, and Odyssey 2. I like the metal shell.

Excellent answers! I came to recommend daybreak, lush, and pure and saw you recommended all of them! I'd add in Ziigaat Horizon as well. Cheers!

Good reccs. I'd also toss in ziigaat horizon

Good points! There's a lot of variation in what sounds neutral in ear and a single iem target can't apply to everyone! The only way to get truly neutral sound with IEMs is to compare by ear with studio monitors like the ones you've listed and try to EQ to get the iems to sound similar. Some iems will come closer to true neutral than others. Personally I try to compare my iems by ear to my own monitors (8341s and kh80s) and the Ziigaat Lush actually comes pretty closer than most iems, as does the Ziigaat Horizon and Truthear Pure.

Horizon / Odyssey 2, already have the DosCinco :)

Agree on Ziigaat Horizon. I think this one is really going to catch on once more people try it

You should. To me it’s almost bizarrely underpriced. It’s been wild to see how much the iem market has changed this year alone

i really love the luna and horizon

Horizon man, I love me some Planars.

Just ordered my Horizons—they arrive tomorrow from Amazon. Was deciding between Punch Audio, Top Pro, Arcanis, and Twilight DS (not out yet + unknown BAs). I’m after a direct SM4 upgrade—same sparkle and layers, but with real bass. Looking at the graphs, Horizon was the closest match. If you want a comparison chart of recent Ziigaat IEMs, check out AndyAudioVault’s video from 8 days ago at 5:21 on YouTube.

I've already heard this one, its alright. Quite airy but just doesn't have a wow factor to it. The Crescent and Odyssey 2 are better ziigaat picks imo and the Daybreak has the same set-up and sound better for less so eh... It's another miss for ziigaat for me.

Well personal preference is a big part of that hobby but I like treble emphasis. If you're sensitive to 10-11K than that's on you. The new Ziigaats like Luna and Crescent have even more treble than Daybreak so not sure why'd you'd call out Daybreak specifically for having "harsh peaks" when a lot of other IEMs in the market have more and even messier treble presentation like how I feel in the Horizon. doesn't mean it's bad but I feel at least like it's not market competitive. And regarding poor quality, most of the issues seem to only come out of batch 1 and this is an entirely new brand so I'm not expecting full marks on their first go ahead but all the Daybreaks I've seen have felt super solid and a lot more well built than the hollow resin shells of most Ziigaats. If you want to hate on Daybreak, that's you.

I would consider the Horizons a pretty solid step up, personally. I have the Dusks, Horizons, Lunas, and Hype 4's at the moment and any of these would be a worthwhile upgrade depending on what you want (though 'worthwhile' is relative and subjective, obviously). I think the $3-400 is a great sweet spot atm. Supermix bass quality is only OK and their mids are thin to me. Supermixes punch above their weight in technicalities for sure but Horizons are still better in every technical metric except for their soundstage which is probably about the same. Horizons: very good/great in every aspect, lean a little bright, not a ton of bass but bass quality is very good. Feel like they would be a direct upgrade to the Supermix if you like their sound signature Lunas: fantastic flat response but leans brighter than the Horizon, lacking in bass quantity but quality of bass mids and treble are all excellent. Reference-sound with sparkly airy treble emphasis. Slightly more technical than the other 3 Hype 4: more 'fun' sound great bass extension and impact though bass quality can be a bit muddy, treble response very similar to Supermix but better quality more airy and shimmery. If you like the treble response of Supermixes but want more bass Dusk: My personal favorite of the 4. On their DSP Default tuning: absolutely fantastic bass both in quality and quantity, mids are similarly just perfect to my ear, full of body and never shouty, and treble similar to the Hype and Supermix. Issue with Dusks is their standard tuning on an analog 3.5mm cable is a bit too bright and treble while airy and sparkly gets fatiguing... IMO you either need to use the DSP cable or EQ them some other way to have them reach their full potential. They EQ better than any IEM's I've personally ever tried, it's wild what you can get out of them. Anyway, as with anything in IEM's and audio in general 'worthwhile upgrade' is subjective. The listed IEM's all cost like $150-$200 more so if the extra $ is too big an ask then I would say don't feel like you're missing out on anything and enjoy the Supermixes, EQ them if you wanna feel like you changed IEM's without spending any $.

https://preview.redd.it/z5zorry59dyf1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=112bff9889a53bc4b376ebdbf1957f106ab87091 The Ziigaat Horizon is one of them

I'm probably in the minority here, but I have no complaints about a company releasing a ton of options with branded Knowles or Sonion BAs instead of bellsing crap. People have no idea the price difference in branded BAs is sometimes an increase of 10X over drivers companies like Aful use. If you are at all familiar with graphs and how an IEM diverges from JM-1 (neutral), plus the different properties of certain driver types (Dynamic vs. BA vs. Planar etc) you can usually guess 90% of what it sounds like. I like options. My only complaint is their shell shape creates a pressure point on the top/back of my ear. Ziigaat's shells are the only ones I've ever had a problem with. CHANGE UP THE SHELL SHAPE GUYS.

Ya there is amazing stuff in the 200 to 300 dollar space, really, like the latest run of Ziigaat stuff, Odyssee comes to mind.. And Doscinco.. There is also the Dunu Davinci.. Juzear 61t..we are having our little brains blown out the ear holes at this point. Going up further in price, the tuning seems to get very specific and unique. You really need to know very well what you want. I think most people could stop at something like Odyssee

there are 5-10 great IEMs in 230-530 price range which I wouldn't say one of them is better than the others, rly depends on your tuning preference, actual difference to these would be 800+ IEMs, those Ziigaats fall behind a bit in soundstage compared to Volume S, Tea Pro, maybe not Variations but they are all still good just there are better ones for that

Funny I come across this post as I'm on my way home from an audiophile store after trying their entire price range of IEMs, as well as their expensive DACs and DAPs. Like from $20 IEMs all the way to a $4000 Forte Ears Macbeth they had. Here's what I concluded as a non-audiophile just gaining interest in this hobby. Diminishing returns for IEMs kicks in hard after $300. Sweet spot seems to be around $200-$250. I really liked the Moondrop Kato and a lot of the Ziigaat IEMs they had. Fit and sound quality felt much better than the Zero Reds I currently have. I feel like once you go above into the upper hundreds into thousands USD range it's more personal preference tbh. Favourite one I tried today was a Campfire Audio Clara. With DACs I felt that as long as it could sufficiently power the IEM, it really didn't make a noticeable difference. Couldn't notice a real difference between my JM6 Pro dongle and their $200 ifi DACs, even on the expensive IEMs. And the Apple dongle is pretty bad. It couldn't drive most of the IEMs I tried. Even the ones it could drive they didn't sound good. Just use a JM6 Pro it's even cheaper than the Apple dongle (at least it is in my country). I did notice a quality difference with DAPs though only with the expensive IEMs. It sounded kind of cleaner but honestly not too big from my perspective. For most people you could probably just go up to around the $200-$300 range with an IEM that fits you comfortably with a preferable sound signature, and get an entry level DAC-AMP dongle and just leave and save the rest of your wallet.

I was in a similar boat as OP and bought the tea pros, ziigaats and et142s. After lots of comparison the et142s were the clear winner and surprisingly the cheapest of the three. They’ve been my daily driver ever since and have never felt the need for anything better. Frankly I have a hard time imagining how they could be improved on. Very, very pleased with my simgot et142s. They are endgame for me for now.