BQEYZ Wind Review | The Note Decay Reference at $200-Lexington99
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BQEYZ Wind Pros:
Wide Open Headstage
Bone Conduction Adding Audible Tactility In Bass And Mids
Outstandingly Natural Timbre
Note Reverberation
Higher Notes Of Vocals
Midrange Transparency
All-Encompassing Bass Presence
Bone Conduction Adding Audible Tactility In Bass And Mids
Outstandingly Natural Timbre
Note Reverberation
Higher Notes Of Vocals
Midrange Transparency
All-Encompassing Bass Presence
BQEYZ Wind Cons:
Bright-Tilted Tone
Diffuse Imaging
Non-Articulate Treble
Needs A Nozzle Filter To Achieve Tone Balance & Bring Treble Peaks Down
Diffuse Imaging
Non-Articulate Treble
Needs A Nozzle Filter To Achieve Tone Balance & Bring Treble Peaks Down
+Wide Open Headstage:
Since the Wind is open-backed, notes can decay naturally and infinitely without a sense of hitting and bouncing off the backplate. This adds to the timbre decay which ends up being so natural that you've never heard it. It has a circular headstage where it is as tall as it is wide, and it is very wide with quite good depth.
What is more, it is incredibly open-sounding where you can't sense an obvious end to the stage, beating out even full-sized headphones such as HD650 or Hifiman Ananda in terms of how notes decay outwards. At the same time, it is very intimate where voices come really close to you, singing exclusively for you, the listener.
+Bone Conduction Adding Audible Tactility In Bass And Mids:
Yeppers, this bone conducation works wonders. If you place your thumbs on the surface of where the bone conduction operates throught he shell, you can actually legitimately feel the vibration. How this is expressed during musical replay during actual listening is like it's adding a subtle layer on the replay that is perfectly synced to the dynamic driver, humming along nicely with what is happening in the bass and mids. It makes everything in the bass and mids a little denser, more physical, more tactile.
+Outstandingly Natural Timbre:
As mentioned before, timbre is outstanding. Each note has proper weight thanks to the BC driver and the open-backed nature allows for uninhibited infinite ripple decay of the notes.
What you end up with are notes that you experience like this in your head:
+Reverberation:
The BC driver together with the open-back infuses each note with a reverb that also aids the sensation of the note expanding forever until it naturally dissipates, like a drop in water.
+Higher Notes Of Vocals:
The high notes of vocals or instruments is one of BQEYZ specialties. There is a delicious vibrancy there around 2-3kHz that makes the crystalline aspect of voices really shine through and touch you. Singers who are belting out sound super dynamic and punch through all the way to your dopamine system. Female vocals operate in these frequencies more often than male vocals, so they benefit more.
+Midrange Transparency:
Really great transparency in the mid-range. It sounds very dynamic, powerful, transparent, pure. This allows you to connect to the performance and hear the music in layers.
+All-Encompassing Bass Presence:
A huge bass presence thanks to the BC driver vibrating. It's huge not in terms of depth or volume, although the Wind is no slouch in those areas, but rather; it's huge in sheer size. It fills the entire headstage with bass. It's like your head is inside the guitar while it's strumming along. This calls for powerful sources that tighten up the bass while adding a little extension ontop for best synergy. The Wind is all about being inside each note as opposed to standing at a distance and seeing the separation between each note.
-Bright-Tilted Tone:
Now for the negatives and the first one is a nitpick. The Wind has, despite its great BC driver adding substance to the bass and mids, a slight bright tilt to its tonal balance.
The LCP dynamic driver is maximized for upper-midrange purity, but becomes lean in the lower mids in the pursuit of transparency. The BC driver does fill
in the sound to a good degree, but doesn't quite compensate all the way to say it has a perfect tonal balance.
-Diffuse Imaging:
The notes are so large, because they are not contained by treble contours. This makes the imaging diffuse and unspecified, so this is not a set
for analyzing exactly how the mix has been mastered and put together. Rather, you enjoy the very center of the note first, spewing forth to the forefront.
-Non-Articulate Treble:
One of the most immediate things you notice about the Wind is its absence of treble. What I mean is, it gives such a close inspection of each note that you could say you're inside of it and you lose the perspective of the contour of each note. This hurts the sense of sensing separation and location of the treble. You hear treble, but your mind can't pin point where "on the instrument" it is.
-Needs A Nozzle Filter To Achieve Tone Balance & Bring Treble Peaks Down:
I rectify the bright tonal balance by adding a nozzle filter which tames the peaks in the treble, giving it a perceived warmer and more refined sound. After doing this, it becomes almost perfect according to my preferences. By adding the filter, you effectively negate the first negative point about having a bright-tilted tone.
Conclusion:
The Wind is a special IEM that sounds like no other IEM that I have heard. It delivers a unique and addictive perspective to music that is only enabled by its BC driver and open-back nature. I consider it the best IEM under $500 and it is one of my favourite IEMS ever, all things considered. At $200, it is a must have for anyone, either as your main set or as a reference in terms of natural note decay.
Since the Wind is open-backed, notes can decay naturally and infinitely without a sense of hitting and bouncing off the backplate. This adds to the timbre decay which ends up being so natural that you've never heard it. It has a circular headstage where it is as tall as it is wide, and it is very wide with quite good depth.
What is more, it is incredibly open-sounding where you can't sense an obvious end to the stage, beating out even full-sized headphones such as HD650 or Hifiman Ananda in terms of how notes decay outwards. At the same time, it is very intimate where voices come really close to you, singing exclusively for you, the listener.
+Bone Conduction Adding Audible Tactility In Bass And Mids:
Yeppers, this bone conducation works wonders. If you place your thumbs on the surface of where the bone conduction operates throught he shell, you can actually legitimately feel the vibration. How this is expressed during musical replay during actual listening is like it's adding a subtle layer on the replay that is perfectly synced to the dynamic driver, humming along nicely with what is happening in the bass and mids. It makes everything in the bass and mids a little denser, more physical, more tactile.
+Outstandingly Natural Timbre:
As mentioned before, timbre is outstanding. Each note has proper weight thanks to the BC driver and the open-backed nature allows for uninhibited infinite ripple decay of the notes.
What you end up with are notes that you experience like this in your head:
The BC driver together with the open-back infuses each note with a reverb that also aids the sensation of the note expanding forever until it naturally dissipates, like a drop in water.
+Higher Notes Of Vocals:
The high notes of vocals or instruments is one of BQEYZ specialties. There is a delicious vibrancy there around 2-3kHz that makes the crystalline aspect of voices really shine through and touch you. Singers who are belting out sound super dynamic and punch through all the way to your dopamine system. Female vocals operate in these frequencies more often than male vocals, so they benefit more.
+Midrange Transparency:
Really great transparency in the mid-range. It sounds very dynamic, powerful, transparent, pure. This allows you to connect to the performance and hear the music in layers.
+All-Encompassing Bass Presence:
A huge bass presence thanks to the BC driver vibrating. It's huge not in terms of depth or volume, although the Wind is no slouch in those areas, but rather; it's huge in sheer size. It fills the entire headstage with bass. It's like your head is inside the guitar while it's strumming along. This calls for powerful sources that tighten up the bass while adding a little extension ontop for best synergy. The Wind is all about being inside each note as opposed to standing at a distance and seeing the separation between each note.
-Bright-Tilted Tone:
Now for the negatives and the first one is a nitpick. The Wind has, despite its great BC driver adding substance to the bass and mids, a slight bright tilt to its tonal balance.
The LCP dynamic driver is maximized for upper-midrange purity, but becomes lean in the lower mids in the pursuit of transparency. The BC driver does fill
in the sound to a good degree, but doesn't quite compensate all the way to say it has a perfect tonal balance.
-Diffuse Imaging:
The notes are so large, because they are not contained by treble contours. This makes the imaging diffuse and unspecified, so this is not a set
for analyzing exactly how the mix has been mastered and put together. Rather, you enjoy the very center of the note first, spewing forth to the forefront.
-Non-Articulate Treble:
One of the most immediate things you notice about the Wind is its absence of treble. What I mean is, it gives such a close inspection of each note that you could say you're inside of it and you lose the perspective of the contour of each note. This hurts the sense of sensing separation and location of the treble. You hear treble, but your mind can't pin point where "on the instrument" it is.
-Needs A Nozzle Filter To Achieve Tone Balance & Bring Treble Peaks Down:
I rectify the bright tonal balance by adding a nozzle filter which tames the peaks in the treble, giving it a perceived warmer and more refined sound. After doing this, it becomes almost perfect according to my preferences. By adding the filter, you effectively negate the first negative point about having a bright-tilted tone.
Conclusion:
The Wind is a special IEM that sounds like no other IEM that I have heard. It delivers a unique and addictive perspective to music that is only enabled by its BC driver and open-back nature. I consider it the best IEM under $500 and it is one of my favourite IEMS ever, all things considered. At $200, it is a must have for anyone, either as your main set or as a reference in terms of natural note decay.