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CELEST PANDAMON: Sonically Balanced Sounding One

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Pandamon, Baku or Mo was a mythical creature prevalent in East Asian folklore, especially in Japanese and Chinese tales. It has a chimeric features but some of the illustrations show that it takes the form either of a panda or a bear. In the Japanese tale, Baku was a devourer of nightmares which makes them a good familiar and a guardian while in Chinese mythology, Mo ( also a translation for Giant Panda) consumes iron and copper which give a rigid bone structure while its pelt has a resistance against humidity, wetness and even also works as a protection hide. This is my second review for Celest Audio as I previously published a review on their Gumiho before. As we already know about the Celest Audio, they are a sister company of Kinera and QOA (Queen of Audio) that makes one of the best looking IEM shells in the audio market with their constant improvement and evolving on their tuning capabilities. Celest Pandamon like its predecessor has a SPD (Square Planar Driver) on its internal b...

QKZ x HBB Khan: Robust, Bloomy and Reverberations

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Khan is a historic title that was bestowed upon either on a chief of a large tribe/horde or a warlord that unifies other realms under his rule. This title is prevalent on a great Eurasians steeps especially on Turkic-Altaic cultures and civilizations. Temujin or Genghis Khan was the well-known Mongolian conqueror from the Middle Age who bears this title as he subjugates a lot of kingdoms, tribes and even an empire from East Asia to the outskirts of Eastern Europe. This is  QKZ X HBB Khan , QKZ's second collaboration project with Chris Ballard a.k.a HBB (Hawaiian Bad Boy) which we all know on the portable audio community who he was and his reputation as a respectable audio reviewer. This is my second product review of a QKZ product but I have owned some QKZ products before as they are quite cheap and sound decent enough for casual listening. You can check out my review on  QKZ X HBB  here . QKZ x HBB Khan is an IEM earphone with dual dynamic driver on its internals. The sa...

AFUL PERFORMER 5: PROSPER AND BOLDNESS

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“Much effort, much prosperity.”  –Euripides, Greek Playwright, One of the fathers of classical tragedian dramas. So how does that quote connect to the AFUL Acoustics itself? Well, AFUL is a Chinese word for prosperity and can be also translated into the word "affluence" as AFUL Acoustics wants their company to prosper in the midst of a very competitive audio market. AFUL Acoustics was established in 2018 and under its portfolio they already have substantial numbers of patents and proprietary technology called RLC Network Frequency Division Correction Technology. Here are some of its principle based on my understanding, drivers has its own distinct frequency response and AFUL put these drivers into a PCB with some complex circuitry. And with this technology, it eases and rectifies the frequency band response of each driver to have a more accurate and gives a well-segmented and smoother frequency response to lessen the occurrences of distortion that might cause some unwanted pe...

TANGZU WAN'ER SG: The Paragon Premier

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Wan'er Shangguan was the only known female prime minister that was ever recorded in China's illustrious imperial history. She was one of the most important personalities during the Tang dynasty. Besides being a prime minister, She was also an imperial consort to Empress Wu Zetian's son. She was also known to be a talented poet, calligrapher and an accomplished scribe-administrator while working as her mother-in-law's secretary. Her life ends in a tragic manner as she was executed during a political coup inside the imperial palace. Wan'er S.G. is Tangzu's first foray on the ultra-budget segment. First, I need to introduce this audio company and what they are in the audio industry. Tangzu Audio was an audio brand formerly known as Tforce Audio. Their first product was the TForce Yuan Li and it received some praises and accolade from the audio community as it delivered an impressive sound  that it was considered as a price to performance product that delivers a ton...