Re: Unique Melody - Custom Earphones + Reshelling [ Exclusive Indian Sole Agent Lyn
I'm avoiding commenting on the SQ cause of a few reasons. They were universal remolds and the custom ones for your ears sound much better. Atleast thats what the guy at Stereo told me.
TBH, maybe its just me, or I don't really know, I'm just too confused after hearing customs. To keep it short and simple in 3 words, I expected better. Maybe they were too revealing(as in my source was bad, the sflo2) or maybe the UM customs just sounded just Okayy. And if after trying IEMs worth 40k+ your initial reaction is not HOLYYY COWW!!! than there is something wrong. Atleast that was my reaction when i heard the TF10's for the first time.
Sflo2 (HO) -> Dire Straits / Anjunabeats / Unplugged Nirvana -> UM Mage, Reaction : They have plenty of bass just like the JH10x3. They both are in the same league to me and sound sig was also pretty similar. They both have plenty of bass and are kinda dark and tubeish kinda sound. The JH have more lush and smooth mids. The UM were more analytical(but not dry). There is plenty of bass authority. The treble was not sharp or ear piercing, it was something like an Re1 if you've tried one.
The Miracle were much more sophisticated in the sense that there was a much bigger soundstage with a much better separation in the instruments. It was a notch better than the Mage, no doubts. Everything was a notch better in the Miracle but they still sounded very bassy to me.
I'm not very good with using the kinda jargons that they use on head-fi but to give a picture of what the UM customs sounds like, think of those old audio cassette players we used to listen to, if you remember they had a button to put it on Metal mode for metal audio cassettes. For me, the customs sounds like a cd player playing a good clean signal in true cd quality through with the Metal mode on. It just makes everything sound bassy. Somehow its kinda put me off of the whole custom craze unless your a basshead.