I try my $9,000 bag of IEMs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- unboxing, without the unboxing... and the boxes.
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⇊ PRODUCTS FEATURED ⇊
Audiosense AQ4: aliexpress.com/item/400057877...
JQ 4U Pro: aliexpress.com/item/100500436...
Raptgo Leaf D01: linsoul.com/products/raptgo-leaf
Yanyin Moonlight: aliexpress.com/item/100500271...
Yanyin Aladdin: aliexpress.com/item/100500281...
W+G T2: aliexpress.com/item/100500372...
TRN BAX: linsoul.com/products/trn-bax
Seek Real Airship: linsoul.com/products/seekreal...
ThieAudio Elixir: linsoul.com/products/thieaudi...
Open Audio Mercury: shenzhenaudio.com/products/op...
Yanyin Canon: aliexpress.com/item/100500271...
XENNS Mangird Tea2: linsoul.com/products/xenns-ma...
Tipsy TTROMSO: linsoul.com/products/tipsy-tt...
7Hz Eternal: linsoul.com/products/7hz-eternal
Unique Melody MEXT: uniquemelody.org/products/um-...
TRI Starsea: aliexpress.com/item/100500152...
ikko OH2: ikkoaudio.com/products/earpho...
Shanling MG600: en.shanling.com/product/417
Moondrop Aria Snow Edition: shenzhenaudio.com/products/mo...
Shanling ME800: en.shanling.com/product/413
Softears Volume: shenzhenaudio.com/products/so...
Fatfreq Maestro Mini: fatfreq.com/maestro-mini
ThieAudio V16 Divinity: linsoul.com/products/thieaudi...
00:00 Intro
00:48 Disclaimers
• Why you SHOULDN'T trus...
01:09 The /5 rating system
03:30 Audiosense AQ4
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/audi...
04:48 JQ 4U Pro
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/jq-4...
05:44 Raptgo Leaf D01
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/rapt...
06:16 Yanyin Moonlight
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/yany...
07:14 Yanyin Aladdin
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/yany...
08:29 W+G T2
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/wg-t2/
09:25 TRN BAX
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/trn-...
10:12 Seek Real Airship
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/seek...
10:54 Unknown IEM (Heartfield Acoustic Deer)
11:32 ThieAudio Elixir
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/thie...
12:23 Open Audio Mercury
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/open...
13:39 Yanyin Canon
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/yany...
14:55 XENNS Mangird Tea 2
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/xenn...
16:25 Tipsy TTROMSO
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/tips...
17:16 7Hz Eternal
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/7hz-...
18:06 Unique Melody MEXT
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/uniq...
20:12 TRI Starsea
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/tri-...
21:27 ikko OH2
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/ikko...
22:49 Shanling MG600
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/shan...
23:38 Moondrop Aria Snow Edition
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/moon...
24:45 Shanling ME800
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/shan...
25:39 Softears Volume
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/soft...
26:59 Fatfreq Maestro Mini
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/fatf...
28:48 ThieAudio V16 Divinity
crinacle.com/graphs/iems/thie...
30:21 More disclaimers
CAMERA: Sony a7S III + FE 35mm f/1.8
MICROPHONE: Motu M2 interface + Neumann TLM 102
SPEAKERS: Neumann KH120 + KH750
MONITOR: LG C1 48" OLED
BGM: Ji-Eun's Sunset - City Girl - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Special thanks to Linsoul, ShenzhenAudio, Yaoyaotiger, Unique Melody, KBEar, ikko, Shanling, and Fatfreq for daring to have their stuff ran through the gauntlet! Links in the description are based on whoever sent me whatever.
Also if you aren't aware, 100K giveaway still ongoing: crinacle.com/100k2
What are the best wired IEMs for sound and microphone?
Under $500. 😂😂😂
@@WorkHard271 just get a microphone and iem seperately...
For convenience. Say on the go with a laptop on a plane or in a public setting.
@@WorkHard271 get a lavalier if you really care about microphone sound. i'd reccomend blessing 2 by moondrop
It's the iem equivalent of dankpods nugget lucky dip
This is the IEM lucky dip!
And that opening as well
A thousand dollars+ lucky dip
We need a one grit here
I would be surprised if no one mentions this in the comment.
I love that Crin's authority as an audio expert just allows him to have a casual bag of iem's worth $10,000.
Its not even the fact that he has the bag its more the fact that he just stuffed them all in there 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Yeah man having a $15000 bag of iem’s is a pretty big flex.
i feel like once you're deep enough into most hobbies it gets to that point
@@n.o.b.s.8458 ye $24000 is a lot of money
@@oldfag_adventures Agreed, I've spent around 15k this year on hi-fi T.T
The moment crin realized he had to untangle the cables was an instant regret
Need like an audiophile version of storage wars where audio reviewers bid on bags of random iems and see which bag sucks the least
THIS is a show I would binge
Someone is gonna end up with a bunch of skull candy earbuds from 2014 and I’m gonna Cackle like a witch as we watch them listen to it blindfolded.
One of the bags is Dank Pod's spare nugget lucky dip bag.
I rate this bag 5/5 - has potential.
feels bloated with all those iems inside of it
At this point IEM brands are just spitting out random models with wildly varying tuning (balanced, neutral, flat, V, bass-mids-treble heavy, optimizing it for best audio technicality, etc) tuning ranging anywhere from $60 to $600 and hoping one of their half-dozen new offerings become a runaway hit.
Hopefully they all cost similarly to manufacture so they'll make a profit on the 1-2 models that do end up selling well.
_"because the audiophile community is a bunch of toxic douchbags"_
Spot on Crinicle, and that's why I love watching your videos because while I'm not a massive IEM listener, I am a large basshead and you have bass tunings too and aren't afraid to voice your actual opinions.
Being honest I feel you've made the whole experience more enjoyable and it's now more acceptable to say you like bass or like EQ than it was before you came onto the TH-cam scene.
I liked the video right after he said this.
Probably why I left. I am closing the chapter after my last setup is done and moving on.
Just don't ask for proof if changing cables really changes anything.
All you'll get is testimony and no evidence.
@@thevashfan12392 you should watch the audio science review channel. Amir does cover a lot of the snake oil. It's very therapeutic to see him absolutely tear apart all the bullshit in the most polite manner
I don’t know if I can consider myself an audiophile, but the reason I don’t like most of the community is: everyone believes only they are right, while being in one of the most subjective hobbies to be in. I mean, even the size or shape of your ears may affect how you hear things, and thus having the possibility to lean towards certain sound signatures, but they will just call you and your taste trash bc you don’t like what they like or viceversa. That’s why I (personally) just try to enjoy it alone, and all I really watch/read are DankPods or Crin
Wait fr? Every time I go on his discord people seem very chill 🤔
Much more useful than the old farts who claim you need 2000 hours of burn-in per day and at least 300 hours of listening a week for 2 centuries to know what a headphone is truly capable of.
Yep. If your IEMs sound like shit when you first listen to them, then they definitely won't miraculously become a good set with additional time. The mechanics of micro-drivers like those used in earphones basically rules out burn-in as a serious contributor to driver performance changes. It likely is a thing, but it would also happen over the first few minutes to an hour of listening. You aren't dealing with large voice coils with stiff spiders and surrounds that need time to break in. You're dealing with drivers that have diaphragms and surrounds that are measured in micrometers of thickness and there is no spider. I think the beryllium foil dynamic drivers may be one of the few that could feasibly claim burn-in as a thing, but even then I'd be skeptical as hell.
Long story short, the spoiled milk analogy is his favorite for a reason. If your set sounds like shit, then don't keep trying to make them work. Just return them and get something better.
@@mndlessdrwer in a nutshell, you just say "if it's shit, it's shit. no excuse"
@@OnamazuKuuran Exactly. In this day and age where there are companies on AE selling pre-tuned DD and multi-BA composite drivers that already have acceptable tuning, there is no excuse for a company to do their own work to tune something and do a worse job of it.
@@mndlessdrwer well, burn in is a tested and proven myth
That's absurd. You didn't mention a $12000 cable with a $50000 amp.
Crin :*has a bag of IEMs worth more than 10k$*
Also Crin: yoink
also Crin: YEET
"This is, *The Fuck* "- crinacle 2022
Damn this is good content, first time I've laughed so much seeing his face distort from the IEMs and him manhandling that bag.
I actually really like this idea, you’re not sure how expensive these are when you try them so it’s the most unbiased it can be and I love the surprise
3:25 If anyone's having trouble opening ziploc bags like these, grab them by the side on the "zip" and do a push pull with two fingers. Works wonders
Or just slide the two sides (up and down) along the "zip" and it will pop open.
I have the Aladdins. Yanyin and especially their Aladdin embodies the saying "jack of all trades, master of none". Super conservative tuning that works for pretty much all genres and can't really go wrong but nothing really stands out
Yeah a nice IEM to have to break away from the usual Chi Fi upper midrange focused tuning
I've heard that it lacks detail retrieval and dynamics compared to other sets. Might also just be that the reviewers listening to it have a really high tolerance for treble and the significantly restrained pinna gain on the Aladdin is insufficient for them to hear the treble. One of my favorite sets before it died a gruesome accidental death was the GS Audio GD7B, which has a tuning similar to the Fearless Tequila. Very, very flat with just the tiniest hint of bass and treble gain. I rather liked them, but understood that it's just because my ears are weird and I like reference flat tuning.
That's exactly how I feel about the yanyin moonlight
This was great! I just love these first impression videos. Could watch hours of this.
Crin speedrunning upsetting every earbud manufacturer on earth
Background music is
Ji eun's sunset - City Girl
What a hero
So that zip lock bag had like...5k USD of IEM being tossed around? I love it!
Another entertaining and informative video Crin!
What are the most realistic sounding iem’s at different price points?
Love the recentering and when there is an iem that is worth diving into ✨✨✨
I love this. Can't wait to see how expensive that bag is
I like the moonlight a lot more than variations, it has thicker lower mids and more even if darker treble
You've got this in the bag. What a neat way to work through your baglog. Third bag pun.
The most entertaining half an hour I have spend for a month. Thanks crin.
Crin when you mention the price and rate the IEMs, can you also mention what you feel like the price should have been for a particular iem to be a good value?
I am literally binge watching your channel these past few days and this episode makes my eyes popped with dollar sign. lol. I am actually new on this shit but I have learn a lot from your channel and those iems! man they're dope! anyways I only tried the cheaper ones and they're not even mine. Awesome contents! First time commenting here Subscribed and liked 👍
Wish there was somewhere around me that I could go and try out a bunch. I'm very happy with my current beyer/dusk combo, but I like trying stuff and having variety, and it was a huge leap of faith to just order two sets of headphones sight unseen, or rather, audio unheard.
I bought a pair of Blessing 2's a month ago because of you and I love them. Thank you!
Same. They're damn good.
yutsi
I like how crin can make super long videos and still get a good view demographic since the vids are filled with comedy and fun
im glad price is mentioned as compared to reviewers sometimes that dont take price into account
I was playing a game where I was guessing the prices of all the IEM's before you said what they were, and so far the only one I got right on the money was the Yanyin Canon.
Some TH-camrs brag about cars, some brag about their homes, but this man has class.
Great video as always, Crin! A little question, what do you listen to when testing these IEMs? Do you just loop the same song over and over for each one or is it anything else?
New to your channel I like your reviews considering the cost of products nice keep up the honesty
I tried a bag for headphones - just before the wireless ear buds I noticed that if I carry them in a small zip bag the cable won't tangle that much if at all.
I hope you'll get to try out the unique melody mest indigo sometime.
I love how blatantly honest crinacle is
Will you review an ear tips like acoustune or spinfit?
This is my favourite kind of your content!
“This is very expensive” *tangled messes up jank*
Ok, I'm fairly new into audio and not knowledgeable enough, so I have to ask:
What is driver flex?
Some asshole in a Mustang Ecoboost revving the engine
Tuk tuk, khruk khruk 😆
Looking for an answer as well
it's a weird crinkling sound that a driver can make if the housing isn't designed well
to add to what @sand said, it usually occurs due to pressure build up or release in the housing while you put in/remove from the IEM shell in your ear
30 minutes of a bag? Yes pls
For anyone wondering he had about $9,100 in that bag
Well for him it's nothing.
He doesn't see those IEM's as investment nor valuable. He's just after testing and possibly roasting them.
Man what a dream life :D
@@mehmetgurdal He is making the world a better place and helps people by measuring them and making a big database
@@youtubeisevil I wish the other product industries were to follow a similar approach as what iem industry is doing
Best unbagging I've ever seen.
11:09 You can actually with google lens, it works great!
Ever since my friend gave me his pair of iems I've been obsessed with iem but the problem is they are to expensive yes there are cheap ones but i already use cheap let alone its a second hand and my dream iem is moondrop aria cause i like how balance the sound it produce (according to yt reviews)
I'm glad crin is around since I enjoy musicality over clinical listening I'll look deeper into the ones he thinks are okay to bad 😂
I think it would be very interesting for you to guess the price at which you think the IEM would be acceptable before you look it up, good video. Keep it up.
Yup. Then it would be funny when the price is $3000 when he says it's good at $30 🤣🤣🤣
Crin needs to learn how to do the roadie wrap so his cables stop getting tangled
Can you sweet mister, tell us what should the diffrance be between cheap class iems, medium and high ? THANKS
Hey crinacle! Have you already tested galaxy buds 2 pro? i dont know if i should order them, let me know if you did and if they are any good
Can you share what you're listening to in order to demo the IEMs; I assume you're listening to the same song the whole session? I know you have a blog post about the music you like listening, but it'd be a fun thing to know the testing track for these listening videos.
Before Crinacle got his hands into the sub-$150 IEM market, the Starsea was legitimately a good option for people. Adequate bass, excellent mids, and quite a bit of detail retrieval without aggressive sibilance in the treble. But it is no longer alone in that segment and probably needs a price adjustment or a complete revamp. Personally, I'd be in favor of them taking Crin's approach to using the DD as a subwoofer and using a pretty fast DD combined with a larger full-range BA and a smaller supertweeter BA so you can get great mids and good treble extension. Don't know if that's going to happen, but I can hope, right? Regardless, I already have one and it gets very little use because I also have a GS Audio GD5, which is just a better all-around IEM compared to the Starsea.
yeah I got the starsea, 2years ago (? maybe slightly less) I still really love them with the spring tips cause they're so comfortable
@@-aexc- I just wish that the shell was a bit of a narrower wedge shape and a little shallower in depth. They're reasonably comfortable but stick out of my ears a bit further than my GS Audio GD5. I also wish they had done more with the tuning switches. They don't have nearly as dramatic an effect as I was hoping they would, but designing a crossover network to utilize switches that could make dramatic changes to the tuning just isn't feasible at that price point. It also just isn't that feasible in a set that doesn't have spare drivers to bypass.
the mext is as good as the monarch or monarch mk2?
crin can u review some final audio tws？ I think they have niiice tuning ~
Will you review the "7hz salnotes zero" anytime soon
IEM´s with a sound profile slider? Haven´t seen that before, but some IEM´s can benefit from a different tuning I got a pair of cheap chinese Baseus Encock H07 and out of the box, they´re lagging in treble to sound good but with some extra amplification on the hights, they don´t have to hide of my 280€ Klipsch IEMs, for what was like 12€ I´ve paid that´s impressive.
here it is
the iem lucky dip
Audio bag is a legit concept now.
crinacle is one of the few people I watch that I would actually prefer make a podcast, but somehow hasn't
This song is one of my iem test songs. Good job Timmy! 😂
In the best IEMs under 100$ you said you were going to make the same video but with 50$. Is that still planned and if so do you have any idea when you'll make it?
Still waiting for it ;_;
Just spend an extra 50, man.
@@Goodbutevilgenius bro I'm 16, and all the money I have I save for gas.
My guys just got a sandwich bag with several grand of IEMs he's slapping on the table for the meme. Legendary
Best part is most of them are mediocre and/or overpriced
Please make separate review of cca nra recently it got too hype It would be great help to know about it in detail , so add that in next video
Me nodding along, while listening with mis-matched Galaxy Buds: Mhm, yeah, that makes sense.
I have the TRI Starsea, bought on sale back in January. The pressure issue I have sucks, otherwise I like it.
I'd like something better down the road.
drill a hole in it!
Got mine on sale, too, it‘s pleasant, but the upgrade to the Letshuoer S12 was worth it. Wish you much enjoyment with yours until you upgrade.
Hey Crin, any chance you will be testing the new Galaxy Buds2 Pro, I wanna see a comparison to the original before I trade up
any updates on when the next ranking list update drops?
Tipsy living up to their name. You have to be tipsy if that is the tuning you are happy with.
Leave it to Crin to casually place an IEM thats worth several hundreds of dollars into a bag of random IEMs as if he got the entire set from Wish
So it’s nugget lucky dip but iem?
i am curious what music/song do you use for this type of video
What do you think about the Grado iGe?
as soon as crin put the bag on the table i knew that only the word 'bag' was to come
>bag of earphones
>entirely IEMs
What kind of music do you use to test iems
Is there a review or comparison of aq3 Or aq4 against TRN BA5? My BA5 died 2 days ago and I need a reference against another pair
Yunyin = Onion
Oh based on your preview I thought you were reviewing the bag.
This makes much more sense.
I mean the phones are cool I guess but I wished he would have gone more in depth on the bag. Like at least give us the bag model
@@neonlights_12 a zipper response graph would be ideal
What is the problem with the Moonlight? I love them
Much overpriced.
Now I am super curious about Unknown IEM (Heartfield Acoustic Deer)
“This is very expensive”
Proceeds to shake it like a mugger shaking down a cash register.
Could you breakdown the differences / explaing the selling point comparison between Moondrop Aria vs Moondrop Aria SE?
Bit late but aria se has a different color, accessories like cables and tips, and it's less v shape so less bass and less sharp treble not to say the og aria is sharp or muddy by any means. Both are great and if you listen to a lot of instrumental stuff with less bass instruments the snow edition would be better and aria original is more versatile.
Biggest flex throwing around a bag worth thousands in iems
Was hoping the meze advar would be there.
Can someone please explain to me,
what ,,Driver Flex'' is?
What's the speakers that you use?
For a reason, i'm keeping my two Sony iems, and won't follow any new tendencies in the market. Sony XBA-N3 ( balanced with mezze audio Penta cable 4.4mm plug), with Spiral dot eartips, and half cut internal foams, were able to present a wider, deeper and more crisp musical presentation, while keeping their unmatch quality and most important of all, knowledge from the best brand in the world. Sony. They invented portable audio. The other iem that i also have, is the Sony IER-Z1R, also updated with Spiral dot eartips, and another cable ( the original absolutely sucks ). But the Z1R, is more a collection item. It does it's job, but by no mean worth the asking price, when compared with the much lower budget XBA-N3, which is capable of providing 90% of it's performance. Like you, i also have already tested tons of very different iems, and none, absolutely none were able to provide me with a realistic acoustic, like i'm use to get from the real thing. A high-end home audio system. It was great your review, by the way. Congratulations.
Surprising how much shit is in the $200+ market. Not like "not good enough for its price", but literally shit
*no headphones were harmed in the making of this video (i hope)*
that opening was super dankpods lol
Crin, "I got rid of the boxes"
Also crin, has to untangle and then Web search every model name.
Hey cinacle, do you plan on testing the Galaxy Buds Pro 2 and the Sennheiser Free Byrd? Would love to see your opinion on them
Isn't the free byrd beyerdynamics? He loves the buds 2 and the free byrd has less support anyways if you are on Android, which I assume because Apple users should stick to airpods pros and maxes, they are great for what they are
Thoughts on MEXT vs MEST mk2?
The Nugget Lucky Dip: IEM Edition
Thanks Timmy for all the hard work. Oh hi Crin too
29:08 simple 5/5 just simple wow $$$ well sound graph looks balanced
what backround music do you use?
I wonder if Crinacle would review the new galaxy buds 2 pro and how the sound compares to the buds pro
@Obsessive Compulsive Audio Nerdist So it sounds just like the galaxy buds 2? I was hoping it would sound like the buds pro.
Hi what's your opinion on the kz as 16 pro
Yarr 'twas a good haul today cap'n Crin