MoondropARIA 2 in-Ear Headphone with 0.78 2 Pin Cable

I hope this helps someone who is like me wondering what to get up to $100 or less for an IEM or headphones etc…I wanted a good iem for bass, listening to music and gaming. Headphones just never are comfortable for extended periods and bulky. I love bass and edm, so that was important, but so was gaming and hearing footsteps for FPS games and overall soundstage and quality. I started with ATH M40x Audio Technica over ear headphones… just wasn’t comfortable. sound was just decent. Then I got Truthear Crinacle Zero iem’s…. just sounded overly boosted and artificial and for gaming was barely ok ish but not good.I then thought what the heck, lets try these Moondrop Aria 2 iem’s. Boom! Mission accomplished! while im sure there can be other recommendations and other good iem’s out there let me just tell you these work and work well without an amp or DAC. just plugged into my PC 3.5 basic realtek audio jack. i like drum and bass edm and the bass is solid, great, good balanced sound, good for gaming just no complaints and completely happy. I really didnt want to spend more then $100 cause im living in a hotel rn and Im also a dj and have great equipment in storage.Anyhow this was a long ass review but if your criterion’s are similar to mine and budget too, this will be very satisfactory.Cheers

The left earphone stopped working within the first two months other than that they worked good. Building quality was nice but the left earbud just broke so clearly their quality is not good enough

Clear, crisp audio. 4.4mm Worth.

Updated 8/6 to say check your filters, should work just fine after cleaning them.Worked well for six months, than suddenly the left bud quit. Tried different cables same result. Guess that's 90 bucks down the drain. Cables still neat, might as well use that, can't return it anyways.

Sounds Good but after 6 Weeks the left IEM is not working correctly there is almost no sound coming from that side but the right side works fine, I tried on other Devices and including the Moondrop Pro DAC/AMP the left side sound is extremely low that I can't hear it $90 down the drain :( I would love to send it back to them but now I have a decorative Box on the Shelf.

But paint peels off pretty quickly, like 2 months in for me.

I like the sound profile but the music did not sound clean. Compared to the hexa this does sound more enjoyable but also sounds a lot cheaper.Overall i would rather have the truthear hexa and play with eq on that.

Great head phones for someone who plays video games. Very ease to use and stay in your ears.