Reserved this for the user list la...

Lol, directly quoted my post.

Affortable to many of you guys here I believe.
Or else you wont be browsing audiophile forums.

Will do a review based on IM716 two days later, recently quite busy.

Lol, ER4 is a good buy but the price difference is far beyond this one.
It's cheap maybe you can just give it a shoot.

Both have some slight different sound signature. Read some reviews.

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

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...

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.

Micro machines?

He uses the wrong wording this time. It should be the extension of high is very noticeable.

This post has been edited by walabies: Feb 23 2007, 07:56 AM

You bought this from me? Cant recall... There's a way, use your left hand to pull your right ear, by turning your hand around/behind your head to pull it and use your right hand to insert the right side tip into your ears. And vice versa.

If he really buy from me I will definately treat u starbucks.

Wah, if you categorize SHP9500 as chapalang phone, then this phone can pawn a lot of nice phones around.
Burn in? Ya it sure need to. I havent burn in it much. Busy busy...

Got la, even ibuds also can isolate 5% la.

Bass is pretty tight,
Treble and midrange is clear,
Soundstage is OK.
What do you feel it lacks?
Yes you can amp it wherever you feel it's weak.

Both of them have certain level of uncomfortness and you need some time to get used to them. Well, I already get used to most type of the them.
The soft pads makes your ears feel hot and at first it isn't 'soft', its just 'unsmooth'. Wait sometime your ear greese/oil will soften it up.
As for IEMs, if provides isolation, and you have to bear with a thing stuck inside your ear until you get used to it. Isolation means better detail you can play in lower volume.

Even professional phones have some defects. The damage maybe due to some unknown reason from transportation etc.
I do 1 to 1 exchange if any fault. No worries...

Hmmm... crazy?

Burn in burn in...

Btw, I dun recall 'faint' bought anything from me....(?)

OK how do you guys compare KSC75 vs HJE50? KSC pawns it hands down right?
Right now I rate mylarOne > KSC75.
So you got it?

Wahaha, must treat him starbuck coffee this time this time la...
Another poisonous talk by Ginryu:

Impressive collection of IEMs
EX71 is out of league, CX300 also dont stay long with me, and I just found out the 'blue and red' design is similar to ER4.
If the SQ is close to ER4 as commented, it's definately a very worthy IEM to get...

This post has been edited by walabies: Mar 6 2007, 11:01 PM

Yeah... What amp you did with ER4P?
I still couldnt find a suitable one for mylarOne, still looking for it. And I havent try Crossroad 2+mylarOne, din have time for it (and that's your stuff ma, I just test got sound or not).
That's why I mentioned mylarOne has less amping capability compare to IM716 (which urgently needs one ).