SOUND SIGNATURE
Sub bass is good. Okay rumble.
Mid base is very tight, very fast. People looking for bass won't like the PR2.
Mid range is clean. Male vocals shine while female vocals are a bit thin.
Treble is good. Very well controlled. I had no issues listening to the PR2 for long sessions.
HOW CONTENT SOUNDS
MUSIC has very good separation. I listen to Punjabi, English and Japaense music and just to give two examples, Sidhu Moosewala songs sound so good. His voice is well separated from the music and all instruments are there.
Secondly, a Japanese songs I like to hear for testing separation, Zankyousanka by Aimer, the second half of the song is full of instruments and this IEM delivered there which is so impressive.
ANIME has the same story, the music playing in the background is well separated from the scene. To try and describe, the music is constantly playing linearly regardless of the scene which is very immersive. To give an example from AoT (SPOILERS) Ep. 13 Basic Needs, one of my favourites, there a moment where Mikasa and Armin are running ahead of Eren in the Attack Titan form, the epic score is playing in the whole space and totally separated from every thing, that is, the huge steps of the Attack Titan and the steam coming out of him and then the footsteps of Mikasa and Armin. Testament to the fast response and level of details.
MOVIES also have the same story. I tried watching Kung Fu Panda, which was the same story as anime, music in the whole room and the scene playing separately in front of us.
Second movie was Godzilla v Kong where I specifically watched the fight secen at the end. Imaging is okay but the visual effects sound very realistic was the main takeaway. p**n sounds good too. There's faint slurping and the clear moan. Little bit sound of the guy too, POV might not be good depending on the positioning of the camera.
SPORTS, that I watch are Formula 1 and UFC
In formula one the details and imaging are clear but too clear here because I can tell the difference between the panning of the camera and the cars actually passing and I could clearly, and annoyingly, tell about the camera atop the rear wing that the camera is off centre.
UFC is such a pleasure to watch with these. These are so immersive. So when the crowd is not cheering I could clearly hear the strikes in proportion to the ring as the whole sound stage and at the same time the commentary and many a times the ring side coaches depending on the microphone being used. When the crowd goes loud the detail level makes it so immersive.
THINGS TO NOTE.
These are semi open back. The music usually suppresses everything but if something very loud is going on around or you're listening to a piano, you can hear from the outside. I can hear my loud ceiling fan clearly while watching an interview but only somewhat while listening to music.
Good dac is required. I tried these first with a simple 1k dac dongle but I really had to up the volume for playing well. Then u remembered having the two year old Hidizs S3 dongle dac, which could play these fine even at lower volumes.
Sound stage is okay but it feels like it's only horizontal. Even there when something is going across left to right, the middle part is somehow subdued, like tye centre 25% of the screen.
