I’ve been contemplating this for almost half a year now. I recently moved back to Android from Apple and first I thought I’ll just get another wireless set of earbuds. The more I thought about it though my mind has gone more towards maybe doing a portable DAC + a pair of really nice sounding wired buds.

The absolute max I think I can spend on the buds themselves are around $300. I can be flexible but I am not looking in the Sennheiser 600 ballpark haha.

So if you have any recommendations, experiences or just have some tips to what to look out for please share them with me!

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Can confirm, I have a set of KZs (I forget the model) but they’re shockingly good, even better when paired with a FiiO DAC

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      1 year ago

      Shocking good is exactly how I describe them. And for the money, like $40-90, you can’t beat them!

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        1 year ago

        IEMs are actually advancing at a rapid pace and those KZs are pretty outdated by now. Salnotes Zero or Truthear Hola beat them for less and something like the Truthear Zero are a pretty decent step up.

        The PR2 especially is nice though, just sad they seemingly had a silent revision that’s worse.