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My Sony-xb20 was wonderful to me before I got ckr100, now I know it hisses a lot and is bad at the one thing speakers are supposed to be good at i.e soundstage. I don't have audiophile grade speakers but what I have this one destroys in every aspect. Soundstage and imaging is spot on and this is where ckr100 delivers more than you'd expect. Most of my listening I forget I'm even wearing headphones as the soundstage is wide and the fit is comfortable and light, but when I'm in a noisy environment I tend to increase the volume and highs don't scale as well as mids and lows. Highs are very good but also the only aspect with a teensy flaw of sorts, At a nominal level of volume the headphone is very spacious and outside of your head sounding but when you increase it slightly into the loudness territory the highs become more physical and in your head sounding and can feel uncomfortable. It is very hard to listen MP3s without getting a headache, and YouTube has become unbearable for music, But get a good flac (dsd is overkill if you ask me) and float away in the melodies and harmonies. The level of detail is excruciating, bad recording or production will easily show in this range, very punishing but also rewarding when the recording is perfect. The vocals omg, the acoustic guitar, the whistling, the electric guitar where do I begin to explain and where do I end. They literally feels so good that I feel guilty and undeserving of them. The mids are like desert in the meal offered by ckr100. The drums in Hot for teacher or the cello suites by Bach are great to test these earphones bass performance. I never knew there was so much character in the timbre of lower frequency instruments till I heard it through this. The drums,bass guitar and cellos all perform very well. The accuracy and response are a little off and can't compete with great balanced armatures but they are not out of place for any 500$ iem.
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Dynamic drivers were scaled down to iem size to provide good bass and ckr100 does the best among them. The effect of external DAC will be discussed near the end.Ĭlearly the best part not because it is better than mids or highs but because iem's rarely provide bass this good. Most of the review will be based on sources (mobile and laptop) with decent DAC and amplifier.