After a bit of time on this pair of earphones, the soundstage really gives me a good impression and it doesn’t need much encouragement to get lot same troubles me a bit too. I put on some nice frozen planet soundtracks and soon realized I was almost sleeping in my chair today.😅 Sometimes it really gives me goosebumps though the way that how they emphasize the sound. I’d say it is way much better than shure sonic 50 despite it is just an iem.

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    Hi, both my CFA Ara and Solaris 2020 have some hiss on a shanling m3x and a EU version Apple dongle. Seeing how the Emerald Sea are less sensitive but rated at even lower Ohms I’m curious to know what you use them with

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      I’ve been using dragonfly cobalt on my phone and it works pretty well; on my pc I do plug ifi portable dac but do occasionally noticed some hiss.

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      I have the same hissing problem with the andromeda 2020, people claim the Apple dongle have no hiss or what so ever, but that is not true. I tried the lightning version (for iphone) and USB C version (on ipad and pc), both give hiss when playing quite music.

      I end up using ifi iematch to eliminate the hiss, but I have mix bag for it affect on sound, so DAP seem to be the final solution of CA iem.

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    i liked them but i have the og andros in ceramic white and i prefer the classic sparkly mids and treble. these were a bit too warm for my taste as i didn’t have a problem with the bass on the og. they look nice though. i like how they smoothed out the lines. cable option looks great too. very nice.

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      Yeah, found the OG to be brighter due to the lower treble peak. I tried the Emerald Sea and quite liked it — it’s a warm IEM and has less treble, but it still has that reminiscent sound. It has better impact on the bass but still found it lacking on overall dynamics. However, that relaxing sound is what you should be after from an Andromeda.

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      The only thing that might bother is the decoloring around the pointy ends as you can see. But overall feels like the sound is so warm that time just went by quickly on it.

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      The vega is a pretty good v shape iem. It’s original MSRP was crazy but if you can get them for cheap then that is a win. The next gen Vega, the atlas was just way too much bass.

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        Good to know, thanks! There doesn’t seem to be much talk about them at least on this subreddit, so I wasn’t sure if I made a good choice. But I got them for only $130 lolol. I had a bunch of drop credit and it was this only thing on the site I was interested in.

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          Oh yeah for 130 that is a good deal. They can somewhat take eq so try and mess around. I think now for a good v shape iem I like the QDC Dmagic solo and the CCa Cra+

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    I made a post about these a while ago and wasn’t super impressed, but I saw a good deal on these so I ordered them again to see if I’ll like them after giving them a second chance. They’re soooo pretty