The purpose of this text is to clarify some fine points that are not commonly discussed publicly in the community of fans of measuring something or speculating about the sound of headphones when looking at the available measurements.
I started thinking about a good case for in-ear monitors a long time ago, back in 2019. Since then, the range of the related issues and the market have not changed at all.
Aune released AR5000, its first over-ear headphones, about a year ago, and these headphones were great, which I honestly wrote about. Now SR700, a new model, have appeared. Aune remembered about me and sent them to me for a review.
I saw Soratune YI01 earphones on AliExpress by chance, and, prompted by the desire to try something unusual, I impulsively bought them for $73. Therefore, today we’ll talk about what kind of earphones they are, whether it’s worth paying attention to them, etc. Looking ahead, it’s worth it.
I know the EPZ company only by a single, but extremely successful earphone model, EPZ G10. It’s those ‘earphones with a flashlight included’. P50 is a completely different story both technologically and in terms of the price/self-presentation. This is a bid for ‘real’ sound for a little less than $200.
With this post, I would like to somehow summarize the year of 2024 and describe my vision of what is happening in the headphones and sound sources market at year-end.
