My home theater source gear is lagging behind most of my other audio because I donāt use it for music listening as often as my other stuff. So Iām looking to avoid the DAC in my AVR and my TV, hence wanting something with line out from a Bluetooth DAC.
I havenāt looked into the world of streamers much yet but I have been curious. I may start digging there as well.
Speaking of Bluetoothā¦ I think this is new.
Im buying this when available as I didnt get a dap or dongle yet, specs are meh but I hope it has some of that warm sounding ifi dna.
New Empire Ears IEMā¦
The year of flagships? We getting a sys replacement soon too? Seem to be the only manufacturer left out at this point 
Focal too, though the Utopia 2020 can be considered an update even though there was no tuning change
64audio duo revealed. Surprisingly not planar or flagship. Kinda interesting.
The image that SA posted about it on Hfg makes it sound pretty interesting, going for similar tuning to the Trio but smoother tonality and more sub bass 
May be something that I look at picking up new since that price isnāt too bad to here 
Is this 64 Audioās first open back IEM?
yes. although it seems to not be openback like how we think of headphones. According to people who have them in for early review period, it still isolates somewhat (-12db i believe is the spec) and apparently sound leakage is not as bad as you would think. It seems the open back nature of the set lends a more open sounding stage and presentation which is pretty cool.
Iām actually really interested in trying a set of these. Pretty unique among their lineup and unlike the u6t which is not worth the price as you can get trio and u12t for close to the same amount of cash secondhand, this actually has a place being their cheapest iem with a DD implementation.
Very interested in these also as I tend to have discomfort from pressure buildup when I wear IEMs too long. If these solve that and end up around $700-$800 on the used market in a year or so then I might be looking at a pair. New cable looks pretty nice too.
If it is anything close to the cables they use nowadays, Iād aim for a replacement pretty quickly, lol.
People complain about the hawk and hifiman cables, but this is far below those.
They are touting it as a ānew premium cableā. No clue how it compares to their older ones though which Iāve heard have a reputation for being basically disposable. Lol
I have a u18s coming in a few days that uses their new āpremiumā style cable so iāll let yall know if itās a improvement tover the old
I bet you they just made their thicker Noir cable stock, in which case, is still kind of shit.
Looks like the Monile MKII is now available on Musicteck:
Agreeā¦did not like the stock Noir cable at all
The Abyss guys mention a new xi audio dac being released soon named k-dac est price $1.5k
Interesting, I wonder if it would use a soekris dam board like the sagra
