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KINERA IMPERIAL URD: Fluidity As It Sounds

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Urd is one of the Nornir and She is a sister of Skuld and Verdandi. Along with her sisters, They are collectively known as the goddesses on manifestation of fate in Norse mythology that they ordained the fate and destiny of on both mortals and gods.   She holds the events of the past on her spinning thread. This is what makes  KINERA  products even more fascinating as their naming scheme on their models were based on Norse mythology. I did a review before on  KINERA  Idun Golden  and also from its sister company,  CELEST Audio . What I have here is their latest midrange product, The  KINERA   IMPERIAL URD .  IMPERIAL URD  has a multi-hybrid drivers set-up consisting of 2 dynamic drivers, 1 balanced armature drivers and 2 "electrostatic"/Electret drivers. The dual dynamic driver has titanium-coated diaphragm in its 8mm dual cavity set-up that handles the low frequencies for better responsiveness on transient speed, consistency and be...

TINHIFI C5: Lean, Mean and Almost Neutral Tonality

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Oi! Audio enthusiast out there, Welcome to my another IEM review article and what I have here is from  TINHIFI . This is actually my fourth product review from them, so I just simply skipped the introduction about this company. It seems that  TINHIFI  is constantly releasing a product on a two-month basis as they are aware of the constant changes of the portable audio market landscape especially in under US$100/£81. And they should be aggressive in marketing their products and introducing a new audio technology that is affordable to budget-conscious audiophiles  yet it has decent quality to offer. This is  TINHIFI C5,  this is a successor model of their previous models like the C2 and C3. But this time,  TINHIFI  decided to take a different turn on the implementation of its transducers as they applied a hybrid driver set-up on this one consisting of SPD (Square Planar Driver) and a balanced armature driver. I'm quite familiar with SPDs as I did so...

BQEYZ WINTER: The Last Of The Season Series

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"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." --Pietro Aretino, Italian Renaissance Playwright and Satirist. It's Winter season and during this period there are some festivities that are usually celebrated and Yuletide season is one of them. We know that Christmas spending on shopping has somehow become an integral part of this holiday consumerism and many audio companies are trying to release their product in this season that even makes the audio market even more crowded as ever. It is also noted that one of my favourite audio brands out there, BQEYZ as they will release the last model of their Season series which is quite ironic in this season. What I have here in my hand is the BQEYZ Winter and I will do an extensive review about this product. BQEYZ Winter is an IEM earphone with a hybrid driver set-up with a new type of transducer which is quite rare in this particular price range, a Bone Conduction driver. Its shell chassis is made of a solid  CNC-milled alum...