brandall10
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Crinacle is not only a tuner, he is a very well known member of the online headphone community and a very entertaining and informative YouTuber. He also has a headphone shop/demonstration room in Singapore.
Like Amir, he is one of the “good guys” in this space.
For some backstory, his rise to fame came from ranking a metric ton of IEMs starting nearly a decade back on head-fi. He had no channel/website for the first few years, I believe it was just a thread maintained on head-fi with a google sheet.
He's not alone in that, plenty of others had rolling review threads. But he was one of the earlier proponents using measurements in his assessments and he seemed to carefully reconsider and rerank things and his style of reviewing seemed to engender a bit more trust... local shops would lend him things, people would send them in, so there was a critical mass of items reviewed that his lists became the closest thing to a gold standard.
By the time his first collab came around he probably had been doing this already for 5 years or so. Just an overzealous headfier who turned it into a business op.