Granted, I’ve only been using the Edition XS for a couple of hours. I have the Kiwi Ears Orchestra Lite IEM’s as well. I like the Kiwi’s much more. I feel like I can hear more detail and I just like the sound of them more than I do the Edition XS.

Also, My ears still touch the pads inside the Edition XS and it drives me nuts. I guess I’m just sticking with IEM’s going forward because I have not been able to find a headphone that doesn’t bother the heck out of my ears and I’ve tried quite a few headphones and returned due to comfort issues with my ears. Freaking stupid dumbo ears >_<

I have the Kiwi’s EQ’d and they sound amazing and I can’t get the Edition XS to match that. Am I nuts? I feel like I’m nuts from all of the reviews I’ve watched and read.

  • Mr_Haelscheir@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can report that when I first auditioned the Arya Stealth, while it sounded agreeable but not mind-blowing compared to my Jabra Elite 85h (reasonably neutral) amid my perceptions at the time, I was surprised when on putting on either the Edition XS or Meze 109 Pro, they somehow immediately sounded off in tonality and imaging compared to the Arya Stealth, Audeze MM-500, Sennheiser HD 800 S, and Focal Clear MG. Otherwise, if you’ve seen my posts on Head-Fi (as “MrHaelscheir”), it has been quite a long objectivist journey after that. Maybe it is true that trickling technology from the HE1000se that far down yields such noticeable losses, else the problems lie in frequency response artifacts for your own ears best assessed with the help of listening to sine sweeps and pink noise, and at best, in-ear microphones. For matching the tonality, you might be able to try using a tone generator or slow sine sweep video like “Hearing Test HD” and volume-match the pure tones between your EQed IEMs and target Edition XS EQ. Comfort-wise, I don’t think there are very many headphones with deeper pads than the HE1000 derivatives.