>>106502176
>Flangezo won
Actually I lost pretty hard. Triple flanges turned out to be a massive meme. I mean, the smooth af treble is real, but the comfort is ass (even after weeks of getting used to), and the added warmth to the sound is just too much. That said, ER2SE is still king; it's just that adding triple flanges to an iem that is not designed around it doesn't work very well.

It's funny, because I reduced the lower frequencies with eq, but then I thought to myself: If I'm going to need eq anyway, I might as well just use normal tips and eq the treble peaks instead. And then I used my iems with single flange tips but with the triple flange eq with the reduced lower frequencies and really liked it; I loaded the preset into squig.link and it was pretty much raw DF. But I am also more relaxed in that regard, my current global eq is set to JM-1 with -0.6 dB/octave tilt, and I can still apply further tilt (basically the low- and high-shelf filters from the recent Harman paper) in my music player if I feel like it.

So basically, everything is back to normal. I know it's a meme, but currently I really just hit play and enjoy the music.