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  1. philipmorgan
    philipmorgan
    Mine just arrived. :) Can't get Comply Isolation 200 tips fitted on them tho. Anybody else able to get Comply's onto these? Spinfits went right on...
    Sep 23, 2016
  2. sphinxvc
    sphinxvc
    What do ya think?
    Sep 23, 2016
  3. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Ha ha, only 2 sets of tips! Cable is cheap....buuuut sound right out of the box is clear and slightly warm. I'd probably take these 35$ iems over a bunch of MSRP $400 iems. King of back-up iems, these give all other chi-fi iems a swirly.
    Sep 23, 2016
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  4. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    @philipmorgan you mean the comply are too big or small? The comply that come with the Katana seem to be almost right, maybe just a touch big.
    Sep 23, 2016
  5. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    I'm sending one pair to Ken Ball, begging him to tune the new Lyra like this.
    Sep 23, 2016
  6. philipmorgan
    philipmorgan
    @Kunlun The Comply tips I have are too small to fit the barrel of the RE-00s. Do you know if there's a different Comply model that would fit?
    Sep 23, 2016
  7. philipmorgan
    philipmorgan
    @sphinxvc I've never tried hectobuck or kilobuck IEMs, but I think the RE-00's sound great. Clear and detailed with decent imaging. A little bit lean for my taste, but that might be addressable with tip rolling.
    Sep 23, 2016
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  8. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Yeah, the complys that come with the katana are just about right. You can ask in the noble thread on HF what those are and see if there's something just a wee bit smaller
    Sep 23, 2016
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  9. sphinxvc
    sphinxvc
    @philipmorgan, nice. @Kunlun, is the re-00 analogous to the re-0? IIRC, re-0 was a touch brighter than re-zero. king of back up over carbo tenores?
    Sep 23, 2016
  10. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    You know, I never tried the tenores, but I think the re-00 is more like the re-zero (it's been years, though). The re-00 is supposed to have a cable that doesn't break if you look at it funny, so that plus the good timbre and detail (re-0 was a few hundred when it first came out, so it didn't start as a value iem, except in terms of SQ) make my not-super-serious claim.
    Sep 23, 2016
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  11. Merrick
    Merrick
    New Lyra? Is that something that is expected soon?
    Sep 26, 2016
  12. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    It's coming for sure, the soon part is like audio soon, not normal person soon.
    Sep 26, 2016
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  13. philipmorgan
    philipmorgan
    I contacted Noble support RE: the Katana Comply tip sizing. They got back to me right away on a Sunday! They said they don't supply Comply tips w/the Katana's but that T500s will fit. Ordered a set to see how they do with the RE-00's. :)
    Sep 26, 2016
  14. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Well, let us know how it works out!
    Sep 26, 2016