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“Unless you are a complete treble head or a dynamic driver purist it is incredibly hard not to enjoy the Aether R’s sound signature. Call me enamored if you will but I for one enjoyed its tuning with all the ‘bumps’ in the right places to produce a riotously musical and slightly euphonic listening experience.

When I say musical, which tends to mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but for me, it is a pleasant ‘driving sound’ with good PraT, heady vocal prominence, and a smooth full-bodied treble. In a way, it sort of reminds me of the excellent qdc Anole V6 tuning with a ‘spot on’ wet timbre tuned for an involved yet non-fatiguing listening experience.”

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There is good synergy between the dynamic driver and balanced armatures on B1. I sometimes find peaky hybrids IEMs with slow bass decay and I am not a fan with that kind of tuning philosophy having bass bleeding into the vocal and muffling up the sound. When speed and phase between speakers don’t keep up the imaging is always distorted resulting in veiled. hollow sound.

The B1 is carefully engineered. The hybrid design works like a seasoned band and you will find good articulation which may convince you are not a hybrid fan. When driven well you will enjoy a grand, precise presentation that works great for chamber music and operas, also relaxing jazz music especially saxophone solos.”

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So what’s the cost of getting rid of that connecting cable? Well, there are a few. First, are the available codecs. Many will only support SBC and AAC. Some support AptX HD, but none I know of support LDAC. Not even Sony’s own WF-1000XM3. This is due to bandwidth limitations. Typically, the signal is sent to one of the earbuds and that earbud will have to spend bandwidth to connect to the other.

The other tradeoff is having to carry a charging capsule or case around. They could be bulky inside the pockets or become inconvenient at a gym (nowhere to put them). There is just something to be said about just having a pair of Bluetooth earphones wrapped around your neck. You don’t have to deal with the case or the individual buds. They just “hang” there. The Jaybird earphones are an example of this.”

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“I’ve been talking to EE about their Wraith for a long time now, I think first I’ve heard about the project was shortly after my Legend X review. Since then they have kept refining their new flagship. The release was pushed back numerous times, but now they are confident enough with the tuning.

Wraith is supposed to be the evolution of Zeus, a monitor that has been known for its mid-forward sound with a lighter approach, but immense details and emotions. Empire has spent a lot of time in making a monitor that’s able to deliver the same kind of signature, but refine it with a portion of extra bass, a more spacious sound stage and give it the ultimate control over the scene. What struck me during first listen, with its ability to keep everything and everyone so organized. Wraith is like the conductor in big orchestras, the one telling the musicians how and when to do what.”

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“For me, this is the calling card of the Savant II’s signature. Not so much that it is a basshead monitor, it lacks that full-on dynamic driver natural levels of decay and outright power but it comes fairly close in terms of weight and power.

For me, both the sub-bass presence on the Savant II is excellent though not accentuated to the point where it is overpowering. I suspect the vented driver used by Noble is a subwoofer class balanced armature given its slightly slower and “fleshier” sound compared to the pacy but leaner sounding BA’s used in the Sage.”

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“The EM64 comes with a very basic cable just like with all the other Earsonics monitors. The stock 2-pin cable is quite alright, it feels sturdy and sounds perfectly fine. For stage use it will do a perfect job. Audiophiles will probably switch it out for a nice aftermarket cable, and I would suggest the Leonidas by Effect Audio for this specific monitor. The Leonidas refines the EM64’s characteristics while not wanting to change the stage/pro tuning. It gives the EM64 the feeling of delivering more detail with a more musical presentation, where the stock cable is more in your face, as you’d expect from a stage monitor.”