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TruthEar Nova measurements and further commentary: forum.headphones.com/t/truthear-nova-official-thre…
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00:00 - Intro
00:38 - What is the TruthEar Nova?
01:22 - Sound Quality
04:12 - The sad reality of IEMs
05:13 - Conclusion
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Date of upload: Nov 18, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.846 (41/1,021 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I trust this man and his big audiophile head....
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Nice! Truthear really seems to be knocking it out of the park with their releases
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That's a Chonk
great review as always, Thanks!
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Thanks for the input! I’m personally going to get the Nova’s because I am a fan of the Variations signature and I plan on EQing with the Qudelix 5k. Something I also noticed based on Crinacles graphs is that the Nova is the closest earphone that can be EQ’d to both the Variations and Blessing 3 Dusk readings with fairly low DB movements. That was my selling point honestly.
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Good and informative video,. I really appreciate the link to, "How IEMs are changing", paper. I go in and out of the market for IEMs and have been disappointed in the hit or miss nature of this product category. The research seems to be improving this. I've been very happy with the Truth Ear Red and have enjoyed the Truth Ear Zero (blue) but long term I carry the Red with me. It's great to see very good performance at such accessible price levels. Looking forward to the research driving this further.
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They were on sale for $95 during the 11/11 sale.
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Can't wait to try these!
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Got my set for $101 during 11/11. Haven’t received them yet, but looking forward to it. Oh and I DO EQ many of my IEMs (lightly). Not all, but many.
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Helpful video.
I'm enjoying my truthear Hexa. However, for sheer fun, I turn to my 7hz Timeless (looking forward to the mark 2) and for detail for complex music to sennheiser ie600.
For practical use though, for wireless iems, Status Between ANC works well for me.
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This is a really good and well explained video
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Fair review
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I think you have the same taste as me. I listen loud and i was music producer. And nothing should sound shouty . But every iem has the perfect tone in a set volume. Meaning that when i have a shouty and brighter iem i reduce the volume until becomes perfect . But at higher volumes is very important to have 300 to 500hz up because thats where voice pina hits . By lowering that we should lower the volume too. Only a blasting volumes the voice hits at 1k on the vocal pina. Amd for each 10db up in volume the upper mids and treble goes up by 2 to 3 db. So all depends in volumes we listen and record it. Muaic preducers always produce muaic between 75 and 85db. We like it loud. So we brings things down like 64 audio does. Then we have collabs with reviwers that listen to music at 69db and they love to push that treble ans upper mids up to become audibly. What is a mistake because guitars ans voices should not be changes in the upper mids and treble only. Should be changed in all espectron . I mod more than 70 iem for my taste. Hard to find the tuning that suits me.
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we all truly hear differently, the variations i tried had such a smooth treble response lol
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I appreciate your work, I've learned a lot from your videos. Did you ever do a comparison on GRAS? I'd love to see them both against IE 2019.
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Tuning wise I think they are even better. Using the foam tips and pushing them all the way down (to the last step) makes the upper trebble even smoother than the Variations.
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As there has been talk on a couple of other channels about how the Nova’s supplied foam tips provide a much more satisfying sound, I’m sad the review didn’t include a listen with these tips.
Could a short addendum video be made to consider this option? Inquiring minds want to know…
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I have the truthear x crinacle zero red at the moment.
Is this a significant difference/upgrade?
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If you really like Harman tuning, these are basically endgame. The bass is super powerful and quick, there's almost no treble roughness/grain, imaging is above average, it's just a fantastic listen regardless of price. I prefer it to my S8 in every way except for the upper treble tuning.
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The bass on variations is on another level.
Closest rival is oh10 in the lot that I had the pleasure of listening. Timbre as well varies in different iems. These companies aren't really stupid to price at different levels. Although your have to account for labour costs in various countries
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@ResolveReviews
5 months ago
But what about the 'technicalities'? We describe stuff like this only because that's the kind of language people are used to, but in reality these are only ever descriptions of the subjective experience, and NOT any particular physical acoustic property. Moreover, using these descriptions runs the risk of conflating these two concepts and we start erroneously looking for 'technicalities' in alternative metrics that aren't necessarily relevant in headphones. It's still important to provide subjective reports and describe what we're hearing, but I'm trying to move away from language that unnecessarily prompts these weird conflations if there's no reason to use it. Of course, as said, the community still looks for subjective descriptions, and with that in mind I'll say that the acoustic behavior is similar enough between the Nova and the Variations that I think for their subjective qualities it's kind of a wash, with a slight edge to the Variations in the bass, which also measures a bit differently as well.
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