thanks alot.

I can actually buy almost 3 mylar ones with IM716's price.

yah lah...tats y i said mylarone is good enuf with its prices....

eloz do you guyz realize that these type of IEM really easy to spoilt if you plug into ur laptop or desktop pc?
currently edi spoilt 2 philips IEM lolz.. one side of the earphone sound not coming out edi...

as long as u dont open it loudly or amped it with powerful amp...i think should be ok lah...

Fat hope. Haha... What for I need so much Mylarone... I got myself one right now in my ear.

Isolation of MylarOne isnt so good. I will do a comparo soon. After I take a bath.

That's one of the way to protect them. Prevent physical abuse. Those expensive ones (Super Fi.5, UM2, ER4) doesnt spoils easily though. Maybe due to their quality.

I am writing this comparison based on my little experience on IEMs and newbie in audiophilia valley. So don't take them as a good guide. So please think every sentence as "In my opinion".

Generally, Crossroads Mylarone and IM716 are way better than most of the IEMs I listened, unamped, including the ER6i, ER4, E2C, UM1, CK7... And lots you can name them. Don't feel offended if you guys owned them, it's "in my opinion".
Mylarone has darker sound signature, big opposite to KSC75, some airy bit in the soundstage presentation, nice transient and tons of quality bass, very sweet mid range and the extension to the highs is quite impressive. The package contains all the stuffs you need, a cable manager, a shirt clip, a hard case etc. You can feel how thoughtful is the manufacturer to the users. Comparing to its twins, TC20, mylarone shines in it's bass and the body feeling in the music.
In contrast, IM716 is very neutral, lack some bass in HD mode, refined and high resolution with good separation. Everything is presented in a very natural way and balance in along the sound spectrum.

Mylarone vs IM716
To start the ball rolling, we start with the design of these IEMs k? I voted Mylarone undoubtly for it's design. With the cable management and clip, I can easily keep the cables in shape and doesnt daggle around my body. The red and blue phone may seems odd to someone, but an immediate recognition to the left and right drivers is a big plus. Who cares about the colour as long as it delivers nice musics to your ears. Mylarone comes with 3 size soft flexes, which is a type softer than what I am selling with slightly 'greasy' feel. It pops in your ears easily, even a new user knows how to pop them in to get a good seal. In comparo, the IM716 just sucks, long cables, the volume control is very low on the cable, which I don't know where I should clip it. Making the two cables connecting to the drivers daggling and pulling my IEMs. Sometimes I will accidently hooked the cables onto something and it just being pulled out by 'outer forces' from my ears. The tri-flanges is a PITA to wear. Poking deep into your ear drums. I double flang mod is the way to go, foamies just dont fits my ears. White cables is also not an ideal colour for portable IEMs.

As for isolation, IM716 wins hands down. Maybe due to the tri flange I am using. More isolation is good for hearing more details. The soft flex of Mylarone doesnt isolate as much noise from the soft flexes. I havent tried the bi-flange mod which can be used on Mylarone's big sized drivers.

As for the SQ, I think I discussed some above, so it depends on what sound signature you prefer. I will just do some small comparison here. Mylarone just have a nice amount of quality bass as oppose to IM716's lacking of bass in HD mode. Bass mode in IM716 just lowered the resolution of the music, which I have to switch in between HD and bass mode so freqently in order to suit the music played. Tedious job... Both of them has good staging, but Mylarone is more spacious and IM716 has slightly better transperancy. IM716 has better resolution and separation, which I have to agree, but Mylarone wont lose too much in this field.

IM716 is very very amp hungry, lack of bass and it WILL sound grainy in the extreme highs, In order to remedy this, it has to be amped with correct amp. I tried to amped it with LD2+ and it sounds just very thin Tried the LDM it just cures the grainy extreme highs problem, but the bass is still lacking. Finally found a better amp, xtra-1, and the result is -->" " to me. Got the bass what I want.
As for the Mylarone, the improvement wont be so obvious but amping it does definate improvement in the resolution and body of the music. Good for those who doesn't wants to carry a bulky amp around.

Some may think Mylarone is slightly lower grade than IM716, but just think of the price gap, what more do you want?


This post has been edited by walabies: Feb 22 2007, 04:23 AM

the source is probably clipping.

Clipping kills the IEMs. i doubt it's the notebook's fault.

a thumbs up for walabies for the review. So you'll be giving your IM716 to PcWork? How does this MylarOne compare with Shure E500PTH or Ultimate Ears Super Fi.5.Pro?

ELoz are you trying to said compare Porche to a Honda City?

not really. all of them are nevertheless IEMs afterall. Comparing Porche to Honda City is still a fair comparison. Car to car.

lol... that's just joking lah. as yuheng said, maybe next life...
and i will enjoy keep dreaming he exchange somethings RM 450 with me for RM 130.
hahaha
dreaming does make ppl happy.
lol

you want my K701 in exchange for one of your 890s?

yeah.. nice earphone.. i own it..hehe..

lol
don't make me dream man...

Ya you comparing Ferrari with Honda City la. Ya I know both of them can bring you anyplace on the road. Just their horsepower is different ma. Like Chapalang brand China Headphone (Kancil) vs Super.Fi.10 (Ferrari). Both works on road but why people want to spend so much on Ferrari?
I admit Super.Fi.5.Pro is better... yeah Ferrari is better But Honda City also not bad liao la...


If you help me sell 10 units of any phones/amps I promise to give you one free.


I have better offer, my IM716 exchange for your K701.

And mylarone is comparable to HP890. According to zhen^wei la... Haha...

lol
poison....
i am resisted...
as our mighty ijan said. i am not and headphone guy.. =P

Walabies, how will the MylarOnes sound when you equip it with the triflanges? Does it improves its isolation? Thanks Great stuff there.

...ayakkkkkkk

wawahwahwah....
some many ppl wan to exchange...
we have already back to barter trade lah....
like tat who wan to exchange their car with my mylarone....
i will accept it...

I having the smaller hole size triflanges, which doesnt fits. I think I gotta search for other models this time.
Triflanges has better isolation thus some improvement to SQ but you sacrifice the comfortness.