DesTiny_- t1_jee1z8p wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:24 AM

Reply to comment by ThelceWarrior in First shot of Crinacle's Project Red by dadanobel

>making changes to the drivers

Yes, this is exactly what I want

ThelceWarrior t1_jee25uq wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:26 AM

Yeah but what changes do you actually expect? Again what I meant is making changes so that it affects the frequency response, there isn't actually a magic button they can press that "improves technicalities" really.

Knowing audiophiles one way to do so would be to increase the price of the IEM.

DesTiny_- t1_jee2fde wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:29 AM

I expect a better drivers, that's it. I understand that they will affect cost so I don't expect them to make a 50$ monarc mk 2 level of technical performance but Zeros DD's can definitely be replaced with better ones(like the ones which olina is using) and it will affect technical performance in a good way.

ThelceWarrior t1_jee3lyw wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:44 AM

Not necessarily really, if anything just using the Olina drivers will likely make them sound worse altogether since those drivers weren't designed to be used with the TE0 shell.

DesTiny_- t1_jee3zn7 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:49 AM

I understand that u have to tune different drivers differently to match Ur target FR graph and my point still remains since nothing can stop truthear from adjusting shell and nozzles and crinacle to tune different drivers to his new target, my point about driver upgrade still remains since as I said Zero with different FR response is a side grade and only a driver upgrade with good tuning can make me want to buy project red.

ThelceWarrior t1_jee4gds wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:54 AM

You are kind of missing the point here, tuning and "better technicalities" is pretty much something that's directly related so these two will likely perform differently anyway.

DesTiny_- t1_jee4w4f wrote on March 31, 2023 at 10:59 AM

Yes I agree but the difference won't be that significant ( at least in my eyes), especially considering how zero is already a pretty much tuned excellent. On the other hand a different (better) driver with a good engineering work (including tuning) can give much noticeable boost in technical abilities. Tuning is not everything, otherwise 1k sets would make zero sense since u could basically tune a 20$ single DD iem good enough to make a 90% performance of that higher end iem.