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Megidolan t1_j9j643w wrote

>but man, when I play on them 'NewJeans - Ditto' or actually any NewJeans song or any Red Velvet song or any IU song or any Billie Eilish song, everything sounds heavenly. Female vocals are just amazing, State-of-Art, they shine, they sound like angels from heaven, it's level of HD600 definitely vocal-wise, always smooth, well-extended and never harsh, shouty or sibilant, just pure euphoria, don't know what to say more.

I was going to ask you how you felt about it but after reading this I honestly think I don't need to ask anything more. We have an almost exact taste in music, apparently, and I have been thinking hard on this year only buying one new set of IEMs: the Variations. I think this settles its.

Currently my "best" (subjective) set is the Blessing 2 Dusk but after trying some different stuff I started thinking that the Variations may be my true endgame.

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By the way, this latest album by NewJeans with Ditto and OMG, I have to say, I think it's just perfect. I have been listening to it on loop for about a month lol.
By the way, since I like a lot the artists you mentioned, would you mind sharing more of what you like? Maybe I may find something new I didn't know existed.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9j6mft wrote

Iā€™m so happy to find in this sub people with similar to my music preferences!

Sharing more? You mean about artists or gear? If gear, then LCD-X pre-2021 with metal571 EQ profile sounds very good, the only headphone that can compete with Variations in pure subjective music enjoyment, and suits my music library better than HiFiman Arya for example

If artists in consideration, then definitely IVE, STAYC, Le Sserafim(all songs are top tier, just amazing)

OMG is so good, that I don't have even words to describe what I was feeling, listening to it for first 100 times, feeling like on drugs but without them

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Megidolan t1_j9j8wd3 wrote

I also love IVE and StayC in particular already had a special place at RUN2U was my most listened to track last year on Spotify. I think it only beat HypeBoy because I listened to NewJeans more on flac and on Tidal.

Antifragile and Impurities are also fantastic tracks.

I'm with you on OMG. I just can't get tired of it.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9jmoqm wrote

Huge thumb up for Antifragile and Impurities, they are perfect, also Blue Flame and Sour Grapes from the previous album are chefs' kiss

And XG's last English single album is great. G-idle Tomboy is also a no-skip album

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JaesunG t1_j9k09c5 wrote

Also big fan of female vocals with some similar music tastes. I'll have to check out a couple of you and /u/Megidolan's mentioned songs/artists.

Can I recommend Lee Hi for slower but excellent vocals? Very unique textured voice.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9k4c29 wrote

I'm listening to her songs right now, reminded me of IU, great songs

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Megidolan t1_j9m4a8r wrote

I'll certainly check it out! Thanks for the recommendation.

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Smakane t1_j9k2ay0 wrote

hi, you jumped from timeless to variations so I am curious about how much upgrade you felt given price jump is 2x as I'm also planning moving from timeless to variation

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vavent_ OP t1_j9k3b5d wrote

Timeless had some nasty bright peak with any stock eartips to my ears, so I was really suffering, but even without this peak, Variations are one of those IEMs that sound definitely above their price bracket, if they will fit your ear, they would be great, something better from Variations would start at 1000$ with IER-M9, Monarch MKII and so on, so yeah, upgrade was significant I should say to my ear, especially as time flows you would love your Variations even more, tonality is just perfect together with great technicalities

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dreamcatcherop t1_j9l50mq wrote

You forgot to add Dreamcatcher.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9lgtc0 wrote

My bad, indeed this group is also had cool songs

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dreamcatcherop t1_j9ll6to wrote

If you're saying that for fear of offending (considering stan reputation), dw about it. I interjected in someone else's conversation.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9lt9h0 wrote

Well I definitely liked their song and MV 'BEcause' when it was released, but haven't enough time to explore more of their songs

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Avatar-san t1_j9j8ia8 wrote

Metal and rock not sounding good on it is what I feared most. Guess it was the right decision to avoid it, I'm guessing the thieaudio monarch would also be bad for those genres.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9k3ljq wrote

Yeah, they both have somehow recessed mid-bass and lower midrange, and these genres of music value these parts of frequency response, son't know what even to recommend for these genres, maybe something like U12t? Or IER-M9 maybe

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Avatar-san t1_j9k47ad wrote

My current fave is the Dunu est112, it has a little warmth to the upper bass.

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Danielo944 t1_j9ls9fk wrote

I am biased but I'd definitely recommend U12T for metal. I tried listening to some metal when I briefly had the Monarch Mk II and it was far too harsh.

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vavent_ OP t1_j9ltm9n wrote

U12t reading all reviews about them, looks like very great IEM, I definitely plan to buy them one day or at least try them, maybe would be using them together with Variations one day

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Danielo944 t1_j9lvasa wrote

It's my endgame, have had it for about 9 months so I feel safe saying that now lol. I hope you get to try them soon!

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whitechapel6 t1_j9ndjex wrote

Have u tried aespa

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vavent_ OP t1_j9pgkxv wrote

Yes.

Very good recording quality, better headphones, the better sound you get from their Savage - EP, beautiful album

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