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I would be amazed if that is true, certainly for his first releases. And even more so if any of them are more budget minded. They need to be sold at scale which only really Linsoul and the like can do as they have the infrastructure to push to local warehouses and sell through Amazon in each territory as well as their own site and/ or Aliexpress etc.
I only wonder if the obviously aimed for (more) linear/extended response in the treble would translate to everybody's ear canal. Or if it is just good for the average/standardized measurement rig. I know, I'm asking for a nearly impossible engineering feat, sorry.
IME the window between preview units and retail could be as short as a few weeks, if the review units come from the initial runs, (basically just the difference between ocean and air freight) or as long as 6 months if they're reviewing prototypes and tooling isn't done and the production run takes a long time.
I think by now Mr. Crin has already a dozen colabs out to know what was a safe bet and what was risk taking. AFAIK budget IEMs need to be produced in large batches (think thousands at a time), so tuning, fit and finish need to be perfect to prevent losing money. And in this range (<50 USD) is where his genius shines the most IMO (admitted fanboy here).
I hope you're right but there is a fine line between success and failure . A fair number of his collabs have been flops (singolo, fearless dawn off the top of my head ), some have been near fatal (kz debacle ) . He also seems to have bet the ranch on the meta tuning.I think by now Mr. Crin has already a dozen colabs out to know what was a safe bet and what was risk taking. AFAIK budget IEMs need to be produced in large batches (think thousands at a time), so tuning, fit and finish need to be perfect to avoid losing money. And in this range (<50 USD) is where his genius shines the most IMO (admitted fanboy here).
Crin was the guy that companies sent IEM prototypes and early units hoping for a favourable review. Then they hired him for consulting and marketing (colabs). Now we reached the final stage: his name stands alone on the brand... By definition his approval was done in all details. How cool is that for a success story?
(his Hangout store is by definition only "curated, Crinacle approved IEMs", using his approval as a seal of "satisfaction guarantee")
This is a marketing masterclass happening before our eyes. Like the Steve Jobs creating the Apple empire, limited to the IEM industry, not by inventing new things, but just by merging SOTA research and tech with tasteful balancing of products. Hopefully he stops there and doesn't get greedy as Apple turned out lol.
I'm very much average but what if I were not? He will get there because he is not going as hard to mass market as Harman does. Next time, next level ;-)
Looks suspiciously like capped resin to me https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...s/crinear-iems-by-crinacle.60932/post-2232017he does not like resin shells we'll see if he is coherent and only do metal builds
