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Very late to the party with these, and wired IEMs in general... the last pair I had were some Shure SE215 about ten years ago, which I loved, but left on a plane and never got around to replacing! These Reds are impressive I have to say. I find the impedance adapter gives me the low end that...

Nice - well do let us know what you think. I mix and produce electronic music so the VSX has been an absolute blessing for sub bass, among other things :)

It seems to be Topping’s answer to the ubiquitous Focusrite 2i2 - an entry level audio interface targeted at home recording types, musicians, beat makers, podcasters etc. The DAC in the E2x2 - while not exactly SOTA, seems to performs similarly to the 3rd generation 2i2. For the intended market...

Have you considered active noise cancellation? I find it more or less essential for buses, trains, planes now as it kills the low frequencies and rumble from engine noise. Very happy with my AirPod Pro 2 here.

And more recently became Mackie’s budget brand I believe… and given that I’ve never heard a pair of Mackie active PA speakers that I liked, I don’t have high hopes for these ones either I used to love my Tapco S8 studio monitors though. Unfortunately they were enormous and didn’t make the cut...

It's the evolution of the Roland TR808 kick. Very popular across many electronic genres now. They have a long tail that usually sustains at a particular pitch, so it's essentially like the kick drum and bassline combined into one. In this example there's also a bass guitar fighting for room in...

I'm mostly working on electronic music in a small room with neighbours on one side, and not enough physical space for bass trapping. For me VSX really shines when mixing the low end - and for that it was worth the price of entry alone. I'm not sure I'd want to mix an entire track with them, but...

Yes indeed, it’s the 10K version. Apologies for misreading.

I have this and it seems to do the job just fine. Looks cute too.

Thanks for sending it in for testing, Michael! I've owned one of these since I read Mike Senior's book "mixing secrets for the small studio" years back - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixing-Secrets-Small-Studio-Presents/dp/0240815807 where he theorized why the use of a mono, single driver speaker...

I liked mine but they seem to have developed a loud mains hum. Got a pair when they were first released. The build quality always felt a little cheap and they’d occasionally make popping sounds when powering down - but the sound was good - considerably better than these BX3 I would imagine (of...

Oh the marketing is annoying as hell. Thankfully my regular mastering engineer was a beta tester for VSX and I trust his opinions - so I got to ignore all the hype. As a fellow Brit, this review from Russ Hughes of Pro Tools Expert basically nails it for me -...

Sounds like you’re in a similar boat to me - a Stockholm Syndrome relationship with Apple products :D but I’m very glad we had this conversation because yes indeed - I had a bad photo of my last audiogram backed up on a cloud from a few years ago. I load it into the custom audio setup within...

Very good question and one that I don’t have an answer for quite yet. As someone who’s done a lot of mixing in headphones over the years, I was interested to learn from ASR that the HD650 seem fairly compliant to the harman curve. When I bought the HD650 in the late 2000s it was (rather...

I wasn’t aware of this - thank you for the heads up! Does this mean that iOS does in fact have the facility to create a custom EQ curve system wide and it’s just hiding it??

The AirPod Pro 2 are the first ANC device I've owned - to say they've been life changing is no understatement to me. There'll definitely be better ANC out there but I'm very happy with them - and as someone with hearing loss and tinnitus, being able to enjoy music at a sensible volume while out...

Voted “fine” from me - I used to sell lots of very similar small format mixers bundled with active PA cabs for singers who were on a budget. The audio interface part of these devices is generally is an afterthought - but if it gives musicians on a tight budget some way of getting a signal into a...

Do you still have both pairs of monitors? Co-incidentally I was A/Bing my SC203 against my friends iLouds last night. I was very surprised by the low end performance of the iLoud. I always thought the SC203 had decent bass for the size - but yeah in comparison the bass from the iLoud felt more...

HD650s with Sonarworks and Goodhertz Canopener plugins would be my preference here :) https://www.sonarworks.com/soundid-reference https://goodhertz.com/canopener-studio/