Did you try to figure out the issue with your Holas? If they are broken what bad can you do. I really don't understand why people don't do that and just accept their fate.

From my experience channel imbalances that appear in IEMs after some use are most of the time just some earwax that cloggs up filter.

Can be solved with a bit of water in a bowl, a steady hand and some soap.

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I also don't see your problem here, you usually get warned about the shortcomings of products in this sub. That's how I know about most.

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I have and had multiple Chifi products and not a single noteable problem.

I'm using the cheapest legendary IEMs, the MH755, for over a decade now. Replaced the casing once after stepping on them and changed the cables after over half a decade or so but besides that 0 issues.

Have or had the Tin Hifi T2, BL03, Chu, Hexa, MH750 and various other cheap chinese IEMs without a single issue besides some earwax clogging up the filter after some time.

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I also can't follow your Schiit rant. What happened? I've been using mine with 0 issues for years now.

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Also not sure how you come up with AKG K371 as the counter argument, they are the best sounding worst headphones.

Horrible quality control, drivers just failing, headbands breaking, replacement parts unavailable. At least thats what happened to me.

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In regards to Focal. I had 2 RMAs with my Clears because of a broken and later missmatched drivers.

I was aware of the QC issues before thanks to the sub but could not find any headphones which I liked more so decided to get them because I care more for sound, treat my gear good and most things are repaired easily.

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If you are primarily looking for something that lasts get Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic headphones. The only thing that breaks on them is usually the cable after years of use which costs around 3 bucks to repair.

Can you link to the Amazon page for the $20 Sennheiser IEMs please?

I guess fasting is out of my budget.

Source??

What the heck is this technical ability you're talking about?

Completely different level, but my Sundara sound so good, don't know what real alternatives are there. Hifiman is very competitive.

Is it like the amps make mo difference snake oil? Because two years ago I did intermittent fasting to lose weight, I went from 134kg (295 Lbs) to 89kg (196 Lbs) in 9 months.

If this is snake oil, then please give me more of it. It might not work for everybody but it sure as hell worked for me.

Only if they are not under warranty. Otherwise using warranty to is better. Because fiddling with them is a gumble

That sucks. I have been abusing my HD650 daily since 2017 and they are still going strong because they were made in Irelan and was thinking of buying the Ananda because of their sound quality but after seeing comments about their buil quality I changed my mind.

Interesting thought, but wouldn't that void the warranty fiddling with them? How sensitive is the stuff in there? I am one clumsy man with massive hands

How much?

First of all, what do you even like in music? Dropping a grand on headphones, and not knowing what sort of Frequency you enjoy is just asking to not only be 100% disappointed, but also having 200% buyers remorse.

Also, some people generally just aren't audiophiles, couldn't care less about the technicalities of sound, or the last 10% increase that other people swear that they can hear (me included in that bunch). Like my Dad for example, is just not impressed at all by hi-fi audio. He went to Canjam with my brother and tried freaking Electrostats and said they were boring LMFAOOO.

Did you check the resistance with a multimeter. It could be a bad soldering job and the driver is still good. I would give up on them immediately. I would open them and see if the wires are still attached to the driver

Hail

Bless you I laughed so hard XD

Instead of writing this you could have gotten replacement units through an RMA, but nooooo.

Idk my he400se has been reliable and abuse resistant (shit cables tho)

I need some some time to properly evaluate it, first impressions are mostly positive tho.

My rotation consists mostly of the Fiio x Crinacle Eclipse and etymotics er3xr, I like bass on my Iems and need good isolation for commuting.

The zero is competitive with the eclipse, but I find it kinda inferior (but for it's price, 42€ on sale, it's already a great achievement) , the eclipse is a bass heaven, but the presentation of the zero seems more punchy and the rest of the spectrum seems less covered (need to do some more a/b testing, at the moment I'm listening mostly to Periphery V and Vildhjarta, so it's on the heavier side)

Need to do some more tip rolling as the stock ones don't fit me so well, I tried the spinfit cp155 I use on the blessing 2s and they are the best so far, as long as you get a proper seal.

Maybe I'll write a short review in a while, but at the moment if you're looking for a bassy yet still well rounded iem and you don't mind the size (it's comparable to the blessing) I would vouch for it.

If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask.

It's called HRTF or psychoacoustics. Have fun Googling

Hes a troll but he's by far the most entertaining audio content creator LOL

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Sony IER-CRN incoming!?

It's cheap if you don't have to engineer around size or shape constraints.

How do they still suck at qc

Ok, that's all well and good... you taught me something.

But there is no single driver in a headphone needing more than 750mW of power so my original point still stands, a headphone does not need or benefit from a balanced output.