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Excellent pair of IEMs with the right eartips; kbear coffee work the best to smooth out treble and the fit is snug.

They are my favourite IEMs alongside the Yu9 Que & Mega5-EST. The way they sound is just so effortless, musical and technically competent with smooth treble. I cannot stress how important the coffee tips are, they distribute the lower and upper treble energy just right.

Objective:

- Tanchjim house sound; warm neutral with natural timbre.

Subjective:

- Bass is nice and textured, with EQ it can be controlled so it doesn't mask the mids.

- Mids are rich with weight and vocals have a nice shine to them; male vocals have body, female vocals sound sweet and natural. Can EQ the bass & mids to match the DSP version.

- Treble is smooth and airy with the coffee tips, EQ out your in-ear resonance peaks and it's absolutely smooth and effortless.

- Scales extremely well with volume post-EQ.

Conclusion:

Overall for $20 for the Zero Ultima's + $1 for the kbear coffee eartips, these blow all my other cheap sets out of the water in terms of enjoyment; Daybreak, Truthear Pure, Tea Pro, etc.

It has noteweight and tonality (and separation/layering after EQ) that other budget sets just can't match, nothing at, around or even grossly above this price sounds this effortless, musical & technical, you have to start getting to the $400 territory to start getting something that sounds "better" than the Zero Ultimas imo.

Yes one can wish for a detachable cable, but it's comfortable, sounds freaking amazing, and at $21 total there's nothing to complain about really, just buy them and enjoy them almost anywhere thanks to their size and discrete nature, they also sit snugly in ear (ymmv) and don't move.

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Bought these with my own money via Elise Audio, shipped to SEA (crying due to exorbitant taxes).

Previous owner of; Daybreak, Pure, Tea Pro, Mega5 & Mega7.

Que feels like the perfect middle ground between Mega5 & Mega7 for me; smooth & musical like Mega5 but technical & energetic like Mega7.

Sound stage is wider than Mega5 (for me Mega5 had the best out of head experience with coffee tips), bass feels sectioned off like a dedicated subwoofer, similar to Mega7's bass presentation; oh and yeah bass isn't anything like what it is on the graph, I would say its as bombastic as Mega5 but goes just as deep as Mega7, punches harder & more defined than both though.

Mids and vocals are sweet, it sounds rounded off nicely to me, forward rendered.

Treble is really very smooth and extended, very airy, open feeling.

Separation / layering is excellent, I assume channel matching on this will be excellent.

Fit is perfect for me, it's comfortable and doesn't ever feel like I'm wearing IEM's, I was really worried about this initially, but so glad they fit me perfectly with the default eartips.

Included cable is fine, just missing a chin slider; I ordered a Xinhs K08 to replace it.

Surprisingly the Que's shell feels smaller than my Mega7, its just taller than the Mega7 (nozzle to faceplate), essentially the drivers sit further away from your ear, I wonder if this has anything to do with Que's sound.

Listening to various tracks across my library, I can't really find anything to fault, its so effortless & perfect whilst still being fun that the words "all rounder" & "endgame" come to mind.