KB EAR ORMOSIA: Tantalising and Audibly Good
Ormosia is a type of legume plant which is endemic to East Asia and it has many sub variants forms from large shrubs to a full grown tree. Here in my country, we have a native Ormosia tree and with its fruits and leaves, we use it as some sort of folk medicine. We are all familiar with the KB Ear's naming convention on their product based on gemstones or birds but this time they choose a name from a tree or shrub. What I have here is a new product from KB Ear and its model name is a namesake connected to the tree that I mentioned at the start. This is KB Ear Ormosia, it is a hybrid driver set-up IEM consisting of a single dynamic driver and a custom balanced armature driver. It is housed in an aluminium alloy to provide a better built and protection to its inner components. KB Ear decided to uses a MMCX-connector on this unit which is quite different compared to their usual recessed 2-pin connector probably due to a very unconventional contour of its shell. The design...