As opposed to all the stuff you buy?

So many people here bought both of these. Can we possibly entertain me again that these companies and their marketing strategy and their YouTube affiliates, are finding clever ways to convince us to keep buying new s***?

It's only a matter of time before there's a new $20 IEM they will convince you to buy.

I'm not okay. There's nothing wrong with it. It's still only 20 bucks but... It just seems a little convenient that every two or three months there's a new $20 budget. King and everybody just buys it.

And then 3 months later, the hype dies down and something replaces it.

I don't think so, but this subredded is filled with a lot of Americans/ apple enthusiast. 90% of Americans under the age of 30 using iPhone and there is a bizarre cultural obsession with that company.

His fans want to have it both ways. He gets all the credit when things go right and when things go wrong it's everybody else's fault. The truth is we do not know the exact nature of his relationship.

He has distance themselves from the KZ project, talked about how he's increased his collaborative efforts in other projects.

At the end of the day, he is effectively being paid for his brand, more so than his expertise.

Because everybody already owns it and so now the companies and the YouTubers don't make any more money if they keep saying nice things about it. So it's the zero.

And two or three months it will be something else and everybody will say how the zero is overrated.

This will happen repeatedly until this hobby becomes a little less prone to hype cycles.

Yeah at this point calling him a reviewer is pretty absurd. He's basically a contract consultant/sponsor for every IEM company.

It's kind of funny because he was so critical of affiliate links. And he was right. But now he has found a way to justify this.

And look tuning, promoting IEMs is a fine career but you can't do that and be a credible reviewer. That's a pretty huge contradiction.

These kind of conflicts are pretty widespread with a lot of youtubers and a lot of different ways. Even Mr mobile was disclosing how Samsung paid for his entire trip to South Korea is entertainment and his lodging....

Of course they don't have final copy approval though! See what you will about newspapers but they didn't allow this b*******.

Yeah, I feel like there's a cycle of hyped up products and like the $80 price point, and the $20 price point at least once every quarter

These have a low enough entry point then people talk themselves into buying them even if they don't need them.

How many people do you think on the zero, the chu and the blon 03. Or the aria, the snow, the legacy 2.

Yeah it's getting a bit exhausting.

I think it's a fine product, but it's so obvious the marketing is pushing a new flavor of the month. I can't tell you how many people are literally buy an IEM almost every month.

And hey it's the same price is ordering a pizza so it's not a terrible hobby but it just seems so redundant and manipulative.

I feel like everybody in this hobby has the exact same opinions.

Blon 03. No quarks. No now it's chu. Now it's the zero.

There's going to be a new budget flavor of the month.

Everyone's going to own a dozen of these things..

To be fair, I think they're perfectly fine IEMs but the hype machine seems largely designed to get people to buy them all, and end up with a bunch of redundant products.

It's still interesting, not everybody recognizes this is how the process works and it is pretty ridiculous. It's just absolutely absurd the way this country devalues it's working class, and gives so much power to centers of private Capital to control congress, treat workers like s**.