Photographed & Measured: KBEAR Believe
The $159 KBEAR Believe is a technologically advanced single-dynamic-driver earphone. It joins the much more expensive Dunu Luna and Final Audio A8000 premium earphones with its pure Beryllium diaphragm. Beryllium is probably the stiffest diaphragm material that provides for the fastest possible driver.
At an impedance is 17 Ω and a sensitivity of 98 dB/mW, the KBEAR Believe can be driven with a phone but it probably benefits from amplifying. Here some technical photography showing the earphone’s physical features…which are essentially identical with the KBEAR Diamond. At the time of writing this, I had not listened to the KBEAR Believe yet. My full review is here.. Review unit of the KBEAR Believe was supplied by KBEAR Official Store – and I thank them very much.
Get the KBEAR Believe from KBEAR Official Store
SPECIFICATIONS
Drivers: pure beryllium diaphragm dynamic
Impedance: 17 Ω
Sensitivity: 98 dB/mW
Frequency Range: 20 – 20,000 Hz
Cable/Connector: 4 strands of 6N single crystal copper/2 pin 0.78 mm
Tested at: $159
Purchase Link: KBEAR Official Store
Dang it JK, if you don’t get your Kbearyllium review in before the Ali sale finishes I swear I’m a-gonna wet my pants!
Still breaking in! Don’t rush it and don’t buy it because ONE person recommends it. Check out all opinions. OOTB, the Believe sounds congested in the vocals department…and I doubt this will go away with a 200 hr break-in. In any case does it need high-powered amplification.
But the one you could consider is the KBEAR/Triaudio I3…a very smooth sounding planar magnetic earphone…the other one I recommend is the Shozy Form 1.4. And one of my biggest faves this year is the Blon BL-05S…note the “S” in the end the original Blon BL-05 has a different driver and is crap.
Gadzooks! Can i recklessly seize this opportunity to ask something i have always been curious about? HOW does one go about these massively extended break-ins, with only a laptop at one’s disposal, a laptop being constantly used for god knows what? Is there some *other procedure* that I am wholly ignorant of, one that is *not* reliant on being hooked up to and monitoring YouTube burn-in videos?
Phew, now that’s ‘out of the way’, I can inform that i do have the TRI I3, and from my LG V30 with Topping amp it sounds so intensely good i can barely handle it! Whatever powers the ESS DAC in that LG thing possesses they put ‘aural sex’ on a whole new plateau!
Am more than somewhat reluctant to jump at word of the Blon BL-05S, having bought the 05 and rejected it out of hand (ugh), and before that a faulty -03 (unreplaced due to apparently unconvincing video for Ali seller!), followed by a new one, which, despite o-rings and a sh*tload of experimental tip try-outs, NEVER came close to properly inhabiting my ear. So the entire Blon story is rather a sorry mess for me, JK!
I just ordered the NF NM2!
I don’t believe in break-ins…I think it is gaga…I just do it to justify my forthcoming review. I don’t expect the Believe to blow mw out of my socks.
I do understand your consequences out of your Blon experience. If I was you, I would also not buy the 5S.
In the end, I have indirectly answered your question on the Believe. Be careful!
I’m coming to conclude that the rôle of reviews in our oft-times quite desperate quests for something even beginning to approach personal aural satisfaction is as vexed a one as can possibly be. The now more or less standardized terminology used in the majority of reviews does not, in my own fairly wretched experience, correspond in a truly useful way to what I actually hear. I cannot, for example, for the life of me say what, in ‘technical terms’, sounds so appalling to me about the Pioneer CH3 just received (yes, inspired by your review but i’m not now nursing a grudge JK I hasten to assure you!) I can’t put admirable “tonality” and what sounds to me just downright cheap and nasty together in the same reality at all! Our auditoriums must have been designed by different architects, I swear! I remain as bewildered as I think it’s possible to be by the audtioning (after purchase) of one IEM after another. And it’s not as if reading and ‘cross-referencing’ multiple reviews is any less vexing a business, either! For there one comes across stark contradictions that virtually cancel respective claims right out and it is finally impossible to know *what* to believe. All we find ourselves capable of in the end is ‘taking a punt’ (downing a pint?) and hoping for the best.
Right now I’d like to thank you for that indirect heads-up on the Kbear Believe. Were we not all ed to believe that in the rigidity of beryllium lay our guaranteed salvation? My lust for Chi-Fi has for the time being subsided appreciably, with one last shot at glory made in the direction of NF Audio.. haha..
Thanks also for providing the opportunity to get as much ‘off my chest’ today! Can only hope it’s not too depressing to read!
Und jetzt?
..und jetzt muss mich mit zuverlässigem *Denon* behandeln 🎵😆🎵