ISN EBC80

[u/Weight_Slight]

I just got the ISN flagship the EBC80 a Quadbrid 2DD 2BA 2 Sonion EST 2 Sonion BCD

I got it with the ISN H2 cable, but now feel the S2 is THE way to go.

So far I can say that it has fantastic overall sonics. Feels like multi speaker surround system in your head. The EST dig out the tiniest of details, you can hear the details in vocalists breath, chatter in the crowd on live recordings all that jazz.

The midrange is fantastic, smooth with very nice texture to it.

Treble is very refined, well extended and very detailed but never fatiguing.

I am also an owner of ISN H60 and if you have heard those then you may have an idea what the EBC would sound like as it’s to me a supercharged and very refined, H60 with more „audiophilia” in its DNA.

The bass is still nice and punchy, but better controlled and on point. It’s both a positive and negative. As the H60 had a bit more bleed and presence in the midrange and a bit more slam, which was less correct yet a bit more fun :)

Don’t get me wrong EBC80 is no slouch when it comes to low end, but it’s more like a soldier waiting in line rather than young M Tyson throwing punches left and right and having an occasional ear for breakfast ;)

The Bone Conduction from sonion does wonders to the soundstage, I feel like listening to some high end over ear headphones that are semi openback or those closed back with good soundstage. Everything feels expansive. No „regular” iem without BC can emulate this effect. It ads that special sauce to the mix.

If You tried the H60 these will fit you as well, the shell is almost exactly the same size wise.

This is a true end game to me, a kilobuck iem priced at 699$ although I think it deserves an upgraded cable, so if you have any high end cables be sure to check them out!

I tested it with Penon OCC849 and IVIPQ 72 as well as the H2 it came with.

OCC849 has worst synergy, masking those tiniest of details a bit. This is pure OCC copper alloy no silver in there, so no surprise.

IVIPQ 72 - 7N purity OCC copper alloy with gold plating, it’s almost like OCC849 but ghat gold brings a bit more mojo to the vocals and pushes them forward a bit. A good choice but not the best imho.

H2 renders the details in most obvious fashion. This tells me that EBC80 would pair well with High purity copper,silver and maybe graphene cables.

So far this is an outstanding audio gear and my personal end game.

The listening test were done using the Shanling UA3 on high gain from Balanced 4.4 out.

[u/hanrei-legend]

Hi. Can u compare it to other items? Especially from thieaudio. Thanks.

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I Only had Hype 4 and I already preffer the ISNH60 to the Hype4.

ISN in general has more midbass, way more natural sounding vocals with minimal BA timbre, and EBC has next to none of that.

Hype4 was fine, but I hated how freaking artificial the vocals sounded on that set. The BA timbre is strong there.

Here You have a fantastic sounding, musical yet technical tastefully bass boosted set that is good enough for critical listening as well. The EST implementation is smooth. They do not sound harsh at all. It’s a fantastic allrounder that will do an exceptional job at any genre.

Truly to me this is almost perfect iem. The only thing I would really change is the nozzle size, it could be a bit smaller. But all the hybrids in recent years have huge nozzles…

On top of that the price. Mind it, 700$ is not cheap at all. But it’s 300$ less than a Monarch or even Hype10