Loaner: Dunu Zen and Zen Pro

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  1. rhythmdevils

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    Loaner: Dunu Zen and Zen Pro

    Loaner courtesy of Dunu :bow:

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    I will be including a Lunashops OCC copper 3.5mm cable with the Zen Pro as well as the supplied cable which is not the one that comes with the headphones. My Lunashops cable has no ear hook so it’s a bit annoying but sounds the best and is fine for a loaner. Please always keep it neatly coiled by coiling it around your 4 fingers into a circle before putting them away.

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    I will also be including a set of S M L tips - my favorite Penon audio tips which sound really good with these iems. I tried a few other tips and thought these were the best for SQ. NOTE: COVID does not spread via your ears. It spreads via mouth, nose and eyes. So you are safe just alcohol wiping the tips down good. Plus the virus dies within 3 days so by the time you get them, all virus will have died during shipping. My father is a Biochemist at Stanford and this comes straight from him.

    I may also put them into my personal iem cases instead of the manufacturer box.

    Standard rules.

    Open to ALL friends and contributors on case by case basis but do not be shy to ask
    5-6 days per person
    Insure for 800$
    FedEx UPS only
    Impressions required here
    Post with your location if interested

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    I'd love to hear these, please. NJ
     
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    I'd love to hear these! MD.
     
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    I would really like to hear these: Winfield, IL
     
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    Would appreciate a listen. Thanks, in WA.
     
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    Interested! Alexandria VA.

    also, I can't remember who showed this to me, but a kind-to-your-cables way of coiling IEM cables is to do this: take one hand and with your palm facing up, make the number 4 sign (american, not european) with your thumb closed across your palm. Then, take the IEM cable, unfurled, and grab the cable, monitor end, with your closed to the palm thumb. The rest of the cable (plug end) should extend towards your fingers, between your middle finger and ring finger. Now, take your hand, still making the number 4 sign, and wrap the cable around your index and pinky fingers in a figure-eight/infinity sign. Leave about 8" of cable unwound from the figure eight. Pass the iems/or socket ends through one eye of the figure eight, wrap the 6" of the 8" of the remaining plug end around the cross of the figure eight, then pass the plug through the other eye of the figure eight.

    I know, sounds complicated, but it won't kink the cable, and it doesn't add any twist to the cable that happens when normally coiling cables.

    I'm a dork.
     
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    I’m a huge cable coiler dork. I usually I don’t force coil cables at all, I coil in free air and let them coil freely not around anything and let them twist as they please. Owning expensive strobes for photography got me obsessive about this.

    but this cable is uniquely flexible. It is a bit thick for an iem cable but unbelievably flexible which makes up for it. So wrapping it around your 4 fingers is ok with this one. It doesn’t care.

    it’s actually an excellent cable. I have the same cable wired with Audeze and 4 pin XLR connectors and it sounds as good as Norne Drausk, Arctic cables Magnus and Caprum, etc. so it’s pretty special that it’s thin and so flexible and can be hooked up to iems. Sounds really good.
     
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    hello,
    from your glowing assessment of the Zen Pro, please include me. Slaughter County, WA.
    thank Dunu for me!
    cheers!
     
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    Best iems I've ever heard and only a few people are signing up? What gives? If you're into iems and like a neutral peak free, balanced sound and especially if you don't like BA's you should sign up for this.
     
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    I would sign up but I ordered it lol
     
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    Bassheads in the house want an IEM with great technicalities that you don't have to EQ. :-> Didn't stop me from signing up tho...
     
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    I have never heard an IEM, please add me to the list. I appreciate the opportunity to hear a good IEM. Will be using a studio B with 2a3 tubes( I am converting it), if this is not a good match do not include me
    best
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    they will sound awesome but have a buzz

    they sound goof straight out of a phone, how about I sign you up and you can use your phone/iPod?
     
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    Thank you for the offer, but I do not use my phone for music so do not sign me up. To bad they buzz with the Studio B, is it a tube thing?
     
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    its just a desktop amp thing. Iems are very sensitive so they pick up the noise floor of the amp which wasn’t designed to be that quiet.
     
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    Beyond the noise floor sensitivity of IEMs, it's likely more so the huge impedance mismatch issue that would make most IEMs sound pretty god awful out of a transformer-coupled amp, like the StudioB.
     
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    Same :D
     
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