There’s a good reason why @taronlissimore listed these as his top choice… 
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I’d also currently rank these as the top TOTL pick for “anyone”. Not necessarily the best at any one thing but great in almost everything, of the things i’ve heard. I hope to listen to @jrockwell’s VE8 & Solaris SE someday and do some comparison notes. 
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When I’m ready to move into the iem game, this will be definitely be on my short list. 
I yearn for the good old days where we could make plans to all get together and listen to gear. I was looking forward to letting you try the VE8 last weekend…sometime soon hopefully. VE8, u12t and Solaris SE are all great IEMs.
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Glad to see the loaner program is still going!
Fortunately we managed to get them out before the COVID-19 situation. Once we have a proper handle on stock and the outlook going forward it will be resuming!
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@andrew and @taronlissimore stay safe brothers! 
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With everything on my normal social/events calendar postponed, cancelled, or inadvisable … and with the usual availability/estimate nonsense from Chord/Bluebird over the only pending toy I am waiting on (Chord 2Go), I decided to pull the trigger on these …
Impressively fast delivery for a non-headphones.com order (notified of stock at 17:34 PST on Thursday, arrived from NY in WA about an hour or so ago) … these came from Musicteck.
I was intrigued when they were announced … as I have very much been enjoying the AAW Canary as an alternative to my tia Fourté. And the Canary were especially nice as they’re a departure from the over-done treble on almost every highly-rated IEM that has been recommended to me (and that’s saying something if you use the tia Fourté as a baseline - as it’s not exactly treble-shy).
So, these met my current interests in IEMs … namely a hybrid design … dynamic bass/mids, dual balanced-armatures each for the mids and highs, and dual ESTs for the ultra-highs, with a new feature - bone-conduction drivers - embellishing the mids and treble …
Time to go listen on the deck …
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UM…what are these 
sorry couldn’t resist…looking forward to your thoughts on the bone-conduction drivers…that seems interesting!
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I put up a dedicated thread for them, here, with appropriate translations of the salient bits.
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excited to hear your impressions. I am on the official tour from Unique Melody, but given the current situation and also the fact that west coast is much later on the tour, it’ll be a while before I get them.
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UMM… well thank you good sir! UMM… I’ll be looking forward to your first impressions!!
I’ll do my best to not continue this joke…but, it will be hard… I am intrigued by the tech though…seems like it could be a cool advancement if properly done ( I know its been done before, but I like how they combined everything into an IEM for these)
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I will likely make a proper “Initial Impressions” post a bit later today … but so far I’ve gotten >10 hours listening in … and I find few IEMs are comfortable for that much listening time in a 24 hour period … much less wind up being things I even want to listen to for that amount of time.
These, though … REALLY enjoying them … and that’s in the face of my existing tia Fourté and AAW Canary. They’ve done nothing but delight, seduce and impress so far …
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I always look forward to your reviews/impressions on iem’s. This new iem you are spending time with seem a strange one. I would have never thought that Bone Conduction would have brought anything to table with regards TOTL iems.
Just to be clear in my mind what is it that is brings? (Bone conduction to be specific). Does it add rumble or a physical feeling? Sorry to ask these silly questions but I am genuinely curious.
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It’s hard to say what the actual effect of the bone-conduction drivers is, since there’s no way to turn them off to compare.
What it is supposed to do is “embellish” the mids and treble. And it’s not really clear what is meant by “embellish” (other than an assumption on my part that it is an improvement).
Though I can say that the mids are incredibly well textured and engaging and the mids and treble both are richer and denser than any other IEM I can name off the top of my head, without any hint of slowness, congestion, nor loss of detail or agility.
I don’t consciously feel anything on a physical level, and while the bass has plenty of rumble and growl (more so than the tia Fourté for example) I don’t think that’s coming from the bone-conduction driver.
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Hum…this is intriguing mainly because I trust your assessment! This company managed to achieve a TOTL performance (Not just because of the bass but overall performance based on your early impressions on other thread) in a sub $1.5k package…the future looks brighter if we keep this trend.
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If my Aftershokz are anything to go by, bone conduction does the most work in the midrange, especially the high mids where vocal intelligibility lives. Low bass is not a strong suit of bone conduction.
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Yeah, as I said, I don’t think the bass was coming from/affected by the bone-conduction element. It is impressive nonetheless.
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I was just saying that my experience with bone conduction backs up your assessment.
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