OPGuyK

OPGuyK OP t1_ixxqjhq wrote

Reply to comment by TheFrator in I started a tier list 1 year ago but was too scared to share it. Here it is 300 entries later. by OPGuyK

Can range anywhere from 1 minute to half an hour, anything below a D tier is immediately obvious after the first song :) I usually spend more time if I'm not sure where to put it, I have more time with the unit and/or I feel like it shines in certain situations and I gotta go through different songs/genres to justify where to put it.

As for equipment I almost always use my LG V60 with HibyMusic playing flacs. Personally I've found that it supplies more power than the Apple Dongle and some units sound marginally more "energetic", but personally I guess only 15% of ~B tier units benefit from this, definitely more as you go up the chain. Sometimes I don't have full direct access to headphones (especially the expensive ones) and I can't jack in 3.5mm. For those, I go through all the tracks I recognise well enough on the store supplied DAP and make my judgement there. Though I definitely skipped on a few just because I don't want to mislead anyone just because I couldn't test them properly enough.
More info down in "Info/Test Tracks" by the way!

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OPGuyK OP t1_ixx1oz8 wrote

Reply to comment by AcceptableSeaweed in I started a tier list 1 year ago but was too scared to share it. Here it is 300 entries later. by OPGuyK

Perfectly true! I personally have glasses + thick long hair so headphones don't work well for me. Also headphone demos are less common here for some reason. Though I would've given S to the susvara, though even if it's obvious I didn't have enough testing time to give it a rank and didn't want to simply "assume" its rank. Thanks a lot though, I'll definitely try to test more headphones haha

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OPGuyK OP t1_ixvis76 wrote

Reply to comment by TRX808 in I started a tier list 1 year ago but was too scared to share it. Here it is 300 entries later. by OPGuyK

Unfortunately there's no way inside google sheets afaik to organise the list by s > a > etc, but you can try organise by column T (it's the rank converted to a number) then scroll back to the left. I'll definitely try to make this more clear in the future though.

Same for iem/over ear sorting, just sort by column A for now, I can't figure out a way to separate it just yet/hide certain types without making separate sheets which will be a pain to update imo. Hope some google sheets god in the comments can help out!

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OPGuyK OP t1_ixvhmda wrote

Reply to comment by dongas420 in I started a tier list 1 year ago but was too scared to share it. Here it is 300 entries later. by OPGuyK

I usually use the default tips provided when I test the iems as I believe the included tips define the IEM's true sound signature as a whole. Though I personally swap them around on the IEMs I daily drive. Unfortunately that doesn't account for units that don't use/include the stock tips and sadly I'm usually unaware if they don't. Thanks a lot for the input though!

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