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koolpep
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Aug 7, 2016
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So, I finally got mine. comfort is great, getting used to cork-screwing them into my ears. Build quality is really really good. Sound-quality is pretty good for the price we paid. Am missing the treble detail a bit, bass is extended and punchy. And it's crazy - they sound better from an iPhone than from my desktop Liquid Carbon - am a bit baffled by that at the moment - more experiments to follow.
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Aug 7, 2016
PieceOfTau
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Aug 8, 2016
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koolpepAwesome. Thanks for your impressions. Treble detail is lacking compared to what? Would love to hear more thoughts as you get more used to them. I mailed mine in really late so it's going to be a while before I get mine lol.
Aug 8, 2016
koolpep
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Aug 8, 2016
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PieceOfTauHi. Well I used the FLC8S before and felt the treble was a bit muddy and mushy in comparison. However I let them burn in over night (or my brain adjusted to their signature) and today I compared them to my K10 which has amazing treble and it was actually holding up really well. Not sure what changed. Again could be my brain adapting to the signature or burn in but I love their sound signature now. They opened up nicely and i am super happy with my first custom. so my advice: whatever you hear in the beginning - let them play for a day and tune in again. They rock. Much more composed and clean. Love them.
Aug 8, 2016
PieceOfTau
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Aug 8, 2016
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koolpepAmazing! Holding up pretty well to K10's is more than I could have hoped for for these. They'll be my first custom as well and my first [entry-level] high-end in ear. But I definitely considered throwing my Christmas bonus last year at the K10's. Thanks again for the thoughts!
Aug 8, 2016
koolpep
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Aug 8, 2016
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PieceOfTauWelcome. I have also bought the custom tips for the K10 from null audio. The K10 are of course still better overall but the AH3Pro are more fun tuned. The K10 are the more coherent and adult sounding IEMs but there is something special about having customs. So overall I think they punch well above their price range. They won't throw the K10 from the pedestal but boy do I like them now.
Aug 8, 2016
akk2
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Aug 12, 2016
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koolpepGive it some time for the balanced armature to burn in and it should have some decent treble.
The overall performance is amazing for what it is.
Aug 12, 2016
koolpep
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Aug 12, 2016
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akk2Indeed. Loving them now after some burn in.
Aug 12, 2016
Pierre111
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Aug 17, 2016
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koolpepGot mine today, also feel a bit rolled off in the treble, to be honest I didn't have a huge wow and I'm coming from cheap porta-pros for portable use. They don't sound as good as my modded T-50RP, still good but slightly more veiled. Do they get better with burn in? Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissapointed, they sound good and too different from the porta pro to make a judgment, but still they do sound more hi-fi. That being said I don't know if my ears are made for in ears to start with. If I just put them in, not even plugged, I feel like I'm hearing like a faint wind blow in the low freqencies. I have that even if I block my ear canal with a finger, I have good hearing, I'm actually a sound engineer, but I don't know if it's normal. If you add that white noise to the music, I guess it would do that, sound a bit veiled...Anybody else have that low end noise? That of course would be with ANY IEM at any price, so can't criticize AAW for that..
Aug 17, 2016
PieceOfTau
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Aug 17, 2016
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Pierre111Interesting... I can't answer any of your questions I'm afraid, but I appreciate the thoughts.
Did you guys get shipping notices or do these things just show up one day?
Aug 17, 2016
Pierre111
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Aug 17, 2016
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PieceOfTauIndeed...So if you put a finger or earplugs in one ear all you hear is silence? Never made a case of that, but it's always been like that and didn't think of it as special but maybe it is, funny I just analyse that now that I have IEM...
Aug 17, 2016
PieceOfTau
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Aug 17, 2016
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Pierre111Yeah basically, if I'm in a quiet environment. If I was on an airplane or something like that I'd hear exactly what you're describing.
Aug 17, 2016
koolpep
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Aug 17, 2016
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Pierre111Give them some time. I actually was disappointed a bit at first but after some burn in (brain or the ah3pro) - i really enjoy them now.
As for the sound you hear when you clblock your ear. Yes. That's normal. Sleep with earplugs for one night and you shall be more used to that. ;-)
Aug 17, 2016
Pierre111
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Aug 17, 2016
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koolpepYes, My comment was after 5 min listening, I listened to a few albums and yes they're very enjoyable. For the sound heard with ear canal blocked, I tought that was normal too and I don't sleep with earplugs normally. Not saying it's a big deal, but for sake of argument, if this sound appear when someone plugs something in his ear, even if it's low in dB's and you can't hear that when there's music playing wouldn't it be equivalent to raising the noise floor of your system, or llike adding kind of a pink noise only limited in range? I believe that if it sounds good to you then it's good, I know and admit to geeking out right now and it's not that important, but if MOST people have this noise in their hears, then it would be a weekness in the whole IEM concept right? It would be a not neglectable noise figure that actually can't be picked up by measurment mic cause it's generated internally by us. Just think it's interesting, sorry if I bore you guys, that's the engineer in me...They do sound great and I'm just gonna shut up and enjoy.
Aug 17, 2016
PieceOfTau
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Aug 18, 2016
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Pierre111To answer your question, yes that would be the equivalent of raising the noise floor. But for the sake of friendly argument, what if blocking your ear canal doesn't produce the sound as much as it reveals the sound? What if blocking your ears lowers ambient noise to the point that this sound could be heard? In that case, its affect on sound would be the same between IEM's and full size cans, unless you listen to IEM's much quieter. Think of the sound not as raising the noise floor, but as finding your universal noise floor.
Again, not saying that's what's going on, just offering one possible alternative way of thinking about it.
Aug 18, 2016
Pierre111
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Aug 20, 2016
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koolpepI don't think it's just the brain. They do seem to improve. In fact, for the first 2 days of using em (not full time) I had channel imbalance. I think one of the driver was not pushing to it's potential, and yesterday everything appeared much more even.
Aug 20, 2016
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