So after Tin t2 and hd599 I went ahead and bought Campfire Andromeda 2020 and Senheiser IE600 and sort of skipped the whole mid fi stage.
I really like both of these but it seems from crinacle and everyone who reviews them the Airpods pro 2 and Samsung buds pro 2 both come pretty close and even do better in some aspects than these 2 I have.
Now I'm not rich or anything but music meant a lot to me last few years so I just went ahead and bought a couple of near endgame stuff knowing id end there eventually. I still wonder if I wasted a whole lot money for no reason.
I really like both the iems I have but they're obviously not without flaws, from thin bass on Andro to slightly sharp treble that needs to be eqd on ie600 and it's terrible cable. Maybe by next generation of products tws would start outclassing flagship iems.
As an aside, what's your favourite albums on Andros or ie600?
honestly ie200 are my endgame. I have tried all the sennheisers lineup and many totl endgame IEMs like z1r and mest 2 and ie200 beat both of those in musicality. It doesn’t have the sibilant peaks that ie600/ie30 has and does not lack pinna gain like my ie900 (making female and male vocals sound thin)
Not to mention ie200 is the most neutral iem that sennheisers has made with barely any bass (which I like) which makes the vocals very clear and emotional. At the end of the day, my taste is very different from everyone else’s and can’t understand why people complain so much about ie200. People talking about technicality acting as if they can hear more than what the song itself has to offer.
I kid you not, despite ie200 sounding not as resolving, I still hear the same detail as my high end due to its tuning. While doing that it also hides distortion and sounding more natural than treble forward IEMs that “try” to reveal more detail but end up being hard to pick out what you’re hearing due to how close it is to the eardrums