Audiosense T800 : some impressions and a lot of pictures.
A few weeks ago I got the Audiosense T800 as a result of my hunt for a better IEM. The new and uncomfortable turn my work is having since de beginning of this year and COVID making it worst is keeping me away from my desktop rig and forcing me to use more and more portable solutions . Some times the chance to use my IFI Micro allow me to enjoy again my over the ears cans, but most of the time my choices are limited to Fiio BTR5 and ES100 as a dac/amp and due to lack of isolation my beloved LCD i3 are not ideal.
T800 is an incredible resolving ,clear and detailed IEM with an extended and energic deep bass for a BA. Treble is extremely detailed and instruments separation is phenomenal as well as soundstage, very fast and musical , very good imaging ,but before I start spreading my hype like a virus it is fair to confess that my experience with IEM was confined to a bunch of cheap KZ’s being ZS10 pro and CCA C16 my best ones
Build of resin, T800 feels amazing and they look very nice, comes with two cables one 8 cores OCC and 4 cores SPC the second ,ending both of them in 3.5mm and it uses MMCX connectors. Also 3 pairs of silicone and 3 of foam tips are included. The T800s use 8 BA per earpiece.
Isolation is the best of all my IEM. Size is on the big side, I believe my ears are average for an almost 6f guy and they are on the limit I can handle without discomfort. My longest session so far was of about two hours straight and no discomfort or pressure of any kind and also no treble fatigue. The reason I’m making a point on size of the earpieces and bright treble is because these two things are the only I can think of being a problem for people , especially people with small ears and/or treble sensitivity.
They use Knowles drivers and come with a pair of Knowles dampers preinstalled, those filters are removable. There are like a hundred post on Head-Fi about the changes on the sound you can archive by removing the installed ones and putting others or even by installing the new ones over the factory dampers. Most of the users claim the dampers affect more the bass and treble, depending the one you are using, but the mids get little change if none( it is a V shaped sound by the way).I got the whole set of dampers and the tool for the work on AE just in case I need to do some adjustment, but T800 sound fine and don’t need more than a better pair of silicone tips for my taste. I’m waiting for a balanced cable and that’s it. Maybe in the future, since I already have the dampers, I play with the sound a little bit.
I included some pictures next to my ZS10 pro and C16 for size reference.
Sorry for these some how weak impressions, but the T800 are extremely impressive performers and there was nothing about them here and I was felling that I should post something .
