Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I've been listening to the the soundtrack from Gladiator (damn it's good!), and the Primo 8 exhibits excellent separation of instruments in even the most complex passages. To see how it dealt with something more driving I've been using Peter Gabriel's Security, in particular "The Rhythm of the Heat," ""I Have the Touch," "Shock the Monkey," and "Kiss of Life." Between those songs, you get a great selection of tribal drumming, drum machines, Jerry Marotta working the kit so hard that the drums were probably still vibrating half an hour after they turned off the mics, fine bass and Stick playing by Tony Levin, and Gabriel's remarkable and complex voice. The Primo 8 served all of that goodness up with aplomb, making me want to listen more and louder. Acoustic and vocal centric music like Jimmy Webb's recent albums and Vince Gill also sounded great, as did Diana Krall. These IEMs are just fun to listen to.
Fyi, they work quite nicely when plugged directly into my iPhone 6 Plus, hang together well with the Shanling M2(despite it's slightly high output impedance), but they really shine with my phone feeding my ifi iDSD nano. I don't have anything further in terms of amps/DACs to try them with. I guess I should also mention that all the source files were ripped from my CD collection and are in either alac or aiff formats.
Anyway, while I don't have the familiarity with competitive products either with IEMs or amps, my ears have been tuned on a pretty outstanding speaker system, so I'm not without audiophile experience. I think the Nu Force Primo 8 is a fantastic set of IEMs for the drop price.