Softears Enigma

• Gizaudio Axel: Exceptional detail, high-quality bass, balanced tonality, and excellent timbre. The bass has a fast decay. Endgame-level detail paired with great tonality.
• IEMRanking AI: The Softears Enigma offers a distinctive take on summit-fi audio with its warm, bass-forward signature that prioritizes musicality over analytical precision. Its low-end delivers pronounced mid-bass...

Softears Volume S

• Jays Audio: Amazing vocals under $500 with the stock switch/clear tips or tangzu sancai regular (no impedance boost) with amazing vocal scaling. Recommended for higher volume listening like ballads, slower...
• Gizaudio Axel: Studio 4 with DD bass, great bass texture, tonal accuracy, forward vocals, and natural timbre. High impedance mode sounds bright. A benchmark for tonality and timbre.
• Jaytiss: Great midrange at the price, hard to beat.
• Tim Tuned: Pros: Bass surprisingly addicting and tactile. Cons

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Softears Twilight

• Jays Audio: Slightly warm/neutral, very well balanced, good scaling, TOTL male vocals, big staging, wait for sale
• Gizaudio Axel: Beautiful warm sound signature with outstanding timbre and an open sound. I wouldn’t change a thing. My top choice for timbral accuracy.
• Jaytiss: It's like a tubed iem, it's really fun. Something about DDs, so good.
• Tim Tuned: Pros: Warm tuning done correct, one of my favorite single DD. Cons: Need more treble.

Softears RSV

• Jays Audio: One of the best vocals I've heard on any IEM (especially for male artists). Mids and Treble is TOTL, smooth and well extended and has great naturalness and the perfect bite. Bass has great speed and...
• Gizaudio Axel: Warmer, bassier, and slightly more resolving than the Studio 4, with great timbre. BA Bass. I prefer the Studio 4.
• Crin: Very well-balanced tonality with surprisingly good timbre, though slightly lacking definition.
• Jaytiss: Great upper treble, but its overall tonality isn't perfect.
• Precogvision: Well-tuned from top-to-bottom with good timbre. Safe to the point of boredom.
• Tim Tuned: Pros: Timbre so beautiful you think it's not a BA set.
• Shuwa-T: Strengths: Mid and vocal centric set, this is not reference tuning despite the name.
• Nymz: A BA set that almost sounds like a DD. Needs low OI sourc

Softears Studio 4

• Jays Audio: Best all rounder under $500. "Correct" and neutral tuning. Perfect vocals, not as forward like RSV but zero faults. Slight Improvement over RSV in-terms of seapration and stage size/treble is...
• Gizaudio Axel: Neutral, accurate sound with great bass, tonal accuracy, forward vocals, and natural timbre. Excellent isolation. Unvented design and BA bass may not suit everyone. A benchmark for tonality and...
• Jaytiss: Something magical about this set, but it's not the Bass.
• Precogvision: Sounds plasticky and smoothed; inoffensive to the point of being offensive.
• Tim Tuned: Pros: Just great all around, balance with amazingly clean midrange.

Softears RS10

• Gizaudio Axel: Great tuning with forward vocals and excellent detail. Unvented design, BA bass, and can be slightly shouty on some tracks. I prefer more bass.
• Crin: A little shouty and intense but very resolving and well-defined. A somewhat refined Moondrop S8.
• Jaytiss: Nice iem, clean clear out of the box
• Precogvision: A slightly more resolving S8 at the expense of added grittiness and more upper-midrange.
• Tim Tuned: Cons: BA timbre.

Softears Turii

• Crin: Resolving and fairly well-tuned dynamic-driver IEM.
• Precogvision: One of the more technically proficient single-DDs on the market.

Softears Tremolo

• Shuwa-T: Strengths: Reminds me of the prototype DM, however with an even warmer presentation with less emphasis on vocals, easy to listen to. Weaknesses: Does not replay busy tracks well, treble clarity needs...

Softears Cerberus

• Gizaudio Axel: Darkish treble.
• Crin: Lacking definition in the treble, otherwise a decently balanced tribrid IEM.
• Precogvision: Dissapointing lack of treble extension and very weak bass (literally sounds more BA than it does DD).

Softears Volume

• Gizaudio Axel: Smooth, slightly splashy treble, but a legend.
• Crin: Decent tonality but boring dynamics and low-level detailing. Oddly dipped in the mid-treble.
• Jaytiss: Pros: Nicely tuned, vocal forward signature. Cons: Treble air.
• Tim Tuned: Amp, tip, fit dependent. Pinna gain of death. Technicalities are good, but it's too bright for some, including me. Good for people that listen at VERY low levels and love some bite. Bass lacks...

SoftEars Studio 2

• Jays Audio: HIGH VOLUME SET (at least 75dbs+). Warm, comfy, vintage-like sound with great immersion. Vocals are somehow still clear at higher volume and not overly dark. Not very good tech to $$ value wise, but...
• Jaytiss: Sound underwater.
• Precogvision: Plasticky and lo-res. Upper-midrange sounds scooped out which contributes to large imaging but nothing else commendable about this.