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KIWI EARS QUINTET: Cheap, Affordable Quadbrid Set

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Quintet is a set of musicians consisting of five members in a musical group. The prime examples of famous quintet acts are the Jackson 5, The Temptations, Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls. Quintet is also a typical set-up for rock and metal bands like Anthrax, Scorpions, Avenged Sevenfold, Malice Mizer (a 90s to early 2000s band act from Japan) and Twisted Sister. This is  Kiwi Ears Quinte t, a follow-up product from their previous model, The  Quartet . Unlike the  Quartet  which has a usual hybrid driver set-up, the  Quintet  takes another level for a hybrid driver configuration as it added another two types of drivers, a piezoelectric driver and a "micro-planar" driver which makes it a "quad-brid" set. The number of drivers that were implemented to the  Quintet's  transducers on each side consists of a single dynamic driver, two (2) balanced armature drivers, a MPT (micro planar transducer) driver and a single piezo-electric driver. The dynamic d...

SEE AUDIO RINKO: The Outlier

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Rinko has many meanings in Kanji, "Rin" means respectful, ethical, dignified or beautiful sound and "Ko" means children or young girl. Looks like we have a new set from  SEE   AUDIO  and this one is quite unusual compared to their previous releases which are either hybrid or all-balanced armature configurations. To be honest, I'm quite a fan of  SEE AUDIO  as I owned some of their products like  Yume Summer Edition ,  Yume Midnight  and  Bravery Limited Edition  and my first hybrid set with premium  Knowles  balanced armature was a  SEE AUDIO   Yume . This is  SEE AUDIO Rinko , this is  SEE   AUDIO's  second collaboration project, this time from different audio reviewer personality,  Zeos Pantera  of  Z Reviews . It happens that I also did a product review with his collaboration from other audio companies, so let's see what was the concoction tuning result between him and...