![]() Moondrop’s signature build appears to be high-quality metal shells with smooth, polished finishes. Moondrop also revived the premium earbud with their “Liebesleid” model (after a beautiful violin piece by Vienna violinist Fritz Kreisler, if you ever wondered). In the budget area, the company pleased the critics with their excellent Moondrop Crescent that was discontinued way too early. These single-dynamic-driver earphones settled in the sub-$200 segment. Moondrop have become a household name recently, for example through their successful and popular Kanas, Kanas Pro Edition (KPE), and most recently through their KXXS. It features a warm low end, a neutralish midrange, and a conservative, slightly cautious top-end resulting in a warm to neutral overall sound close to the Harman target curve. The Moondrop Starfield appears to be the slight variation of their KXXS flagship at a more affordable price. This probably sounds cheesy, I teared up at times while listening to them because I didn't know music could sound this good.Pros - Well-executed Harman target tuning excellent imaging sound improved over the Kanas Pro Edition (KPE) beautiful design and build.Ĭons - Upper-midrange forward not for the most sensitive ears treble a bit shy. If you ever plan to upgrade or add to your collection, the Blessing 2 will certainly impress. I didn't realize how bad my laptop's audio is until I heard the Blessing 2 through them. It helps bring out the resolution in the Blessing 2, though it also sounds good on my iPhone with an Apple dongle. I'm fairly certain it's audibly transparent. It's leagues above the Realtek audio chip on my laptop. In terms of DAC pairings, I use my spare LG G8 as a portable DAP since it has a decent discrete DAC and amp. I'd still want to have an IEM that can provide decent soundstage, so the A4000 is still on my list. ![]() The soundstage on these is equivalent or less than a closed back, not much better than my previous $15 Netease IEMs. I can't hear any flaws with the frequency response, and there is 0 sibilance. I've chosen to jump up a tier from the Starfield by getting the Moondrop Blessing 2, which are straight up the best headphones I've heard. I'm glad you enjoy them hearing that they're wider than the X2HR is pretty impressive. With all that being said they are currently my favorite IEM that I own even over my beloved BL-03 because the soundstage really is impressive for what it is. Because at first listen as I said with the ES100 I wanted to return them until I tested them on other things. I will just say out the gate though if they are not paired with a DAC that's comparable then you will definitely be disappointed without a doubt. Other than that they are stellar and personally I have not heard the soundstage they have in any other IEM is it HD800S levels of soundstage? Not quite but however I found them to be on par with my X2HRs if not wider than those and that is considered to have a pretty large soundstage. However Intoit Reviews did have some recommendations for DAC pairings I would go with one of those. To me it sounded best through my Hip Dac and Apple Dongle with my current gear. Please watch Intoit Reviews review of the A4000 because it's spot on with how they sound and from my experience with them they are very source dependent if you pair them with a ES100 I'm going to tell you now it sounds horrible and tinny sounding. They have really good detail and imaging but my only sticking point is vocals which at times can be sibilant. They do have a very large soundstage in fact much larger than my HE400i 2020 at least in width the HE400i has better scale however the scale on the A4000 isn't bad at all and is almost on par with the BL-03 which is one of the best scaled soundstages I've heard in an IEM. ![]() So I finally received the A4000 and have finally listened for myself.
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