Love the Cadenza. Such a great Value. found if you tip roll a bit and get a bit more of an open sounding tip to give it a bit more stage its is awesome. I find myself grabbing it more often than not.
Highly agree, I'm using the medium wide bore tips off my truthear hola and I can certainly say it completely changed the cadenza's for me. Exactly as you described, while there was a small loss of bass I found it evened the rest out
Great comparison. I agree with you 100% . I bougtht Candeza and throw away all other iems including s12 & Panda. If you want next level go to Dunu Falcon Ultra.
The budget space is so crazy that a new IEM that is said to be the best of its price bracket will be dethroned just shortly after a few months. Have you tried the simgot ew200 yet?
EW200 is pretty nice. Got a set on Friday and have burned it in as it was pretty harsh out of the box. spending some time with it today. Need good tips and the ones that came with it are ok to start with. Treble area around 3k showcases singers and guitars. However, plugged in another cheap set the QKZxHBB and those are pretty nice as an entry set. We have two sets of Cadenzas and they're nice too but I'm not drawn to them to listen often. Graphs only tell one story. I find the material of the shell and cavity within can add or take away from IEM quality. Next step is to try to mod some of them with foam inserts and filter changes.
@@radiofreealbemuth Depends. If the $1k popular and recognized iems has the best sound quality like Monarch MK2 and U4S, then you might not be able to get it down to half the price even though 10 years have passed. But if it's a $1k iems that's less popular, you're unlikely to get it at half price, because it usually won't continue production. Maybe you will get a cheaper price by buying used.
@@thomasdanny7717 ah yes, I've done more research since, and it seems like preexisting iems don't drop that much in price. Of course, there are exceptions, but it's mostly the newly released iems in the more budget friendly category that push the envelope of price to performance ratio.
Hi Dave. Nice review! The Cadenza still is my favorite budget IEM since I really like its overall tuning and since it offers a surprising level of details for a single DD IEM. Regarding the Quartet, I agree that the upper midrange and treble regions are veiled and somewhat lacking in details regardless of any of the tuning switch combinations. I found that the Cadenza actually has better details in these regions in comparison to the Quartet.
As a proud owner of the kiwi ears cadenza for the past 5 months, good to see it getting more and more praise from well established IEM reviewers such as yourself.
You and me both though it's been more like 2-3 months for me, the cadenza's have been absolutely amazing. Am receiving my kiwi quintet's tomorrow and am very excited to test them out due to the driver setup and similar tuning. Ordered a pair of the Forteza's for my sister as well and am very interested to see how those hold up too
Do the Quartet BA’s add more sparkle and detail in the treble compared to the 7hz Legato ?, or is the Quartet just brighter like eq’ing the Legato top end ? Cheers in advance 😉
Go ToneKing ShockWave 3, this will be waste of time exploring them, thunderous bass intimate mids , sparkly hi, only need a good cable this is an endgame iem.
best iems for u? i want the best for gaming and music, i main the zetian wu planner iem but idk much about dynamic or other plannars, can u recommend me 1 iem that doesnt cost more than 400? and a dac/amp because i,m using sound blaster g6 and prob is bad XD xd
Do you do any burnin time with the sets you are reviewing? Interested to know your results of whether you review right out of the box or give them time to settle in. I am finding with the sets I buy that some time on some burn-in audio does smooth some harshness out. Over at Z, he seems to run sets through a burn-in period. Crin mentioned that vendors tell people to burn in for some 200 hours (hmm) with regard to pushing people past the return window of 7 days, of course.
Burn in is your brain getting used to something, nothing more. If you try and set and still don't like it after a few hours, return it. Don't make the same mistake I did and buy an amp with "more power" and run the headset a few days strait. Nothing changes. Crin is right, I wish I saw his videos a few months earlier. And even if 200 hours actually improved a product, why should you, the consumer have to shoulder that burden? All the while it's conveniently outside the return window. That's not acceptable anywhere else but some audiophiles eat it right up. A lot of "advice" in this hobby is copium. /rant Oh, and I remember Zeos saying he does it for those who believe in it. Probably to keep his comments section free from "why didn't you burn it in?"
For me in this cheap sets its all about the tuning . Same cheap drivers close to the nozzle. Nozzle is always about the same distance. Dd closed back, so does not matter how the shell is build or looks. What changes from model to model its the filter tuning they place behing the dd driver. That's all.