AFUL MAGIC ONE - Could this be the Most Unique IEM of 2023!!🤔

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[@fiddlix]

TonyTex, your knowledge in acoustics and audiology is astounding. You sharing this with the community shows your commitment. Thank you soooo much. We aren’t worthy…! This is the no brainer set of the year without a doubt.

[@alexeiboukirev8357]

2023 is the year earphones got down to science. AFUL says this is their in-house design BA. The company is a high value R&D asset. I wish them the best.

[@AzGael]

Looks like I'll be ordering this for Xmas, really loved the explanation, made me wish I had studied for audio engineering but it completely made sense, just as in old-times when the choirs used the resonance of the chambers for their chants

[@infiniteuniverse805]

Looking forward to listening to this one and adding this niche variant to my collection, as my first Aful product. Thanks also for the insightful tech explanation and I am glad that Aful did it right. At first glance I was reminded of the Prelude single (generic) BA flop that Crin discussed on his channel. I wonder if Aful took that "thrown together" product and said, "we will do this properly with actual R&D"...and I am glad they did. Father Crin can smile again that there is hope in a single BA config IEM... 😁

[@throndaxlostsoul4969]

"One of the best mids", that is saying a lot about this IEM. Aful has been doing a lot of research into their IEM. They dont just slap in drivers and tune them but they also combine it with innovations.

[@villageroma]

Spectacular release from Aful. Properly designed, transmission lines offer the best subjective bass response of any type of enclosure. Tight, fast and deep. A TL has effectively NO RESONANCE. After this release I am convinced that Aful is the new brand reference

[@R.C.Bullar]

Probably the most advanced brand in the game.

[@alp786]

❤ Thanks Tony! You truly educate and share your knowledge to our small iem audiophile community. I surely will be gifting the magicone to myself.

[@R.C.Bullar]

Fantastic insight! Very informative video! Cheers

[@TWidXugA1]

My only experiment into low count BAs was the dt200, only 2 BAs and a very nice timbre. Excellent with the right tip, but to be fair I don't pick it up all that often. This one is very exciting though... it will certainly fill in an empty space in my collection. Thanks for another excellent review, btw, you are by far my favourite reviewer (and I follow all of them).

[@akros9333]

Thank you for your support. I also have a DT200 and besides the Mids and highs which are very nice the rest is very underwhelming.

[@Alxtorr77]

MEASUREMENTS REMINDS ME A LITTLE THE 41T. BEAUTIFUL!

[@StarBuccaneers168]

Great review, Tony. Excellent explanation on its tech.

[@seth1455]

Excellent technical breakdown, fascinating information

[@housepianist]

I have a special place in my heart for single BA IEMs - KBEAR F1, Final Audio Heaven III, FiiO FA1, Klipsch x11, etc, - and these I will definitely be getting these! Very, very interesting! Right now, I’m enjoying my Truthears Nova.

[@Harry-sy7sb]

Hi Akros, a great video on an iem that stands alone in its class! Did great on 11.11 and got both the ea1000 and a planar, the hidizs mp 145 and saved about $75!

[@akros9333]

You bought two excellent iems

[@fabiojungle4722]

Great review Tony. I have been collecting chi fi iems from the days of soundmagic & one more iems . We are truly living in a golden age. The difference between the $100/200 from then to now is remarkable. The science in the driver tech now is insane. Simgot , Aful , Bqeyz ,Oriveti etc are using single driver technology that up to a few years ago would have been in the kilobuck range. Keep reviewing these gems bro. For all of us that are trapped in the rabbit hole!

[@akros9333]

Thank you brother.... appreciate you sharing your experiences

[@fabiojungle4722]

@@akros9333 🙏🏿

[@rustyshakelford1466]

I'll probably get this before the EA1000 and try modding my 500 instead for a while lol. About a year ago I got the Orchestra Lite, wanting to dip into the all-BA sound, and it has become one of my favorite IEMs. But I've always been attracted to the unique presentation that comes from a single driver, I find you can "tune-in" to the driver technicalities easier, there is a more unified texture to things and coherency in the delivery. I have some nice DDs and a couple of Planars but I was always waiting for that more polished 1BA with greater bass abilities, and I think this is the one. Also I can't afford a Meteor haha.

[@SiddharthSharma-xe6yc]

Love your reviews man. Truly unbiased ❤

[@filippoduso6112]

i was watching on my phone , but i had to come to the laptop just to thank you for this really informative review.. very interesting explanation!

[@zlevelx]

Etymotic ER4XR is amazing single ba, I understand the deepfit issue for many but using it everyday after a week or two the ears become used to being deeply violated lol, then they're great, good sound and isolation

[@vaguely8426]

Which DD's do you feel get close to the Twilight? Great review, love the idea Hifigo implemented, thank you for educating us on it too!

[@moonsofjupiter]

I wish Aful would make a basshead set. May I suggest that you condense your graphs a bit? They’re stretched out and would be more comparable to others and also look more engaging if not stretched so wide. Great channel Tony.

[@colddish]

Hi fi speaker makers like PMC and ATC and many other in different degree have been implementing transmission lines in their speakers where the common bass signatures are tight, powerful and extensive. The positive side effects include balanced sound, nice treble (though I find ATC harsher, then again they like big diameter tweeters) since the fast bass doesn’t bleed into higher regions. Your description of the Magic One sounds just like this. So yeah this is definitely no gimmick and good to see iems start to seriously implement such technic thanks to better 3D printing.

[@paulosilva8200]

I always was wondering when they would do that with a dd. At least its done with a ba. Great. Would love to see with a dd and ba same way, but with the exit on the nozzle sides.

[@opulentotter8594]

Cheers Akros thanks for review. 1BA is not my cup of tea, but fair play to Aful for pursuing the design

[@Gilliboy82]

Is it better than the Hisenior t4 in sound quality?

[@link3457]

I knew this was going to be interesting when I saw the thumbnail. I'm not disappointed :D

[@ignacio9151]

One BA design is something really interesting to look for, but I don't know if it is worth considering it may be pretty similar to a planar IEM. Is there a significant difference between this and a planar? I can only guess they are both fast and lightweight, with nothing special that doesn't have the other.

[@Jaytiss]

When do we get a workout iem recommendation?

[@mndlessdrwer]

I kinda want to see them make a 2BA IEM with the Sonion 38 series for bass and whatever brand gives them the best quality mids and treble extension to pair with it. They've shown that they can give what they want to people who don't mind less bass gain. Now I want to see them make a sub-$200 USD 2BA IEM for the bassheads. Ideally with a gain switch on the side. In fact, they may be able to use the Sonion 38 series in a purely vented design and entirely reuse their existing Magic One in a 1.5-way design with the Sonion 38 series being turned on or off with the switch to overlay the bass portion of the full-range BA and boost the overall bass volume to EDM club rave levels. A couple tuning options for bass gain or bass shelf shaping with the switches would be nice, but just having the ability to run it as a Magic One or as a Magic Two would be adequate. If Penon can make bank with the Turbo's ridiculousness, I don't see why AFUL couldn't with something less than half the price.

[@nmatheis]

Go Physics Tony! Another nice review which lets me know this is one I should skip. Very helpful!

[@bajarwas]

Will they implement this tecnology in future iem ? some magical performer X

[@AntonioHernandez-mg7wj]

Juzear41t or aful magic?

[@AntonioHernandez-mg7wj]

Cómo se compara con el SoundRhyme sr5? Cuál te gustó más?

[@PeddiDevender]

I bought MagicOne really vocal’s are good

[@billviolette5274]

I'm curious though, you said that this type of design looks for 1/4 of the wavelength, but surely even an extremely long tube couldn't be 1/4 of a bass wavelength? A quarter of 500Hz is still 1.7cm

[@Lacosagt]

thanks already bought one

[@AbadyAngel]

hey Akros. please do a 11.11 buying guide video, like best $50 $100 $150 $200 etc, thank you

[@babananabanana9163]

Since you mention that it is a niche iem, for someone who just bought hexa..... is it better i buy magic one or performer 5 for a blind buy ?

[@akros9333]

I would go Performer 5. Hexa and Magic One are very similar sound wise. P5 is a excellent complement to those two

[@babananabanana9163]

@@akros9333 alrighty, danke akros ! :)

[@missmygamergirl445]

Maybe the smoothness of the curve is the magic tex. As a noob to iem the nasty peaks and dips in especially the mid treble of iem graph doesn't seem good to me. The waterfalls must be worse. Out of band is as important as in band or it is for speakers. Maybe the magic ones waterfall looks better than a multi.

[@gwine9087]

Would I really buy a product called Aful? 'Hey, I just bought these Aful IEMs'. 😊

[@marcswinnen9100]

Howmutch mm is the driver?

[@LuisMartinez-sk6rb]

I have performer 5and 8. Both are awesome, I'll give the magicone a go

[@akros9333]

You won't be disappointed 🙏

[@datdudeinred]

Woah transmission line/QWTL in an iem. Wtf! 😂👏 Now i see the price. Without that it would have cost 50. The same tech but with dd would be game changer. Because at the end of the day transmission lines or pipe loading are all for only bass mostly. So a dd would be perfect partner for such design. Still think it should have been max 80 not 150 though. See the prob is it's not about if there is any single ba that comes close its about how many other 150 dollar iems that easily come close or most of the time beat this.

[@User-rn1kt]

Shell gotta be small, yes? I want sth that disappears in my ears like the Warner.

[@lackoflove2803]

single ba is the future.

[@quantum_coach]

Mmmmhhh so this is not a hype, it's a truly unique piece... for the price I don't know if I'll go for this or for a multi drivers IEM option like the EM6L or even paying more to grab a Hype2, a Quintet or the new Kinera Freya 2... what do you think?

[@akros9333]

Well this is worth it because it's something different. As for the other IEMs, EM6l is amazing for the price, Chopin is better than Quintet sound wise and Hype is also special......I would choose Chopin!

[@quantum_coach]

@@akros9333 Loooove your response! I hate the Chopin shell hahaha... my tastes don't fit in those, but you gave me a lot of good thoughts to make my decisions! Thanks, thanks, thanks :)

[@fuzail3379]

​@@quantum_coachi bought Chopin. Will be receiving tomorrow

[@raynerstuelgalid]

I suspect bass grip and dynamics might be not the best.

[@raynerstuelgalid]

Akros, your tech explanation is off in a few places. That convoluted tube is not based on horn acoustics but quarter wave transmission. Also, speaker designers are very much aware of driver and/or enclosure resonances, but these are things that they want to avoid. What the designers actually aimed for in the above is to avoid the resonant frequency but still achieve the intended/aimed-for (low) bass frequency.

[@Sweetaccord]

These are $99.00 now.

[@colinmartin9797]

Uh oh, I just ordered the magic one, and had the original chu and found it one of the single most unpleasant sounding things I had ever listened to. Sickeningly claustrophobic sound. Hopefully the magic one has more soundstage and space, because the original chu physically made me feel sick.

[@fiddlix]

I think you will be pleasantly surprised and have nothing to worry about…Cheers.

[@R.C.Bullar]

Hope the fit is just like the P8.

[@CRXL]

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[@dashandblast]

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[@akros9333]

Is there some problem with video

[@CRXL]

@@akros9333 nope, just couldn’t reply to you on your last video 😅 been trying the whole day

[@villageroma]

@@akros9333nope

[@Crashboomwallop]

I love the mids of Etymotic ER2xr. and have no issues with the comfort with the foam tips. The music sounds pretty pure. If MagicOne's mids is as good, then my interest is piqued. Only thing I would say, as a user, I will nod in respect at your line "Is there any other single BA that is as good?" - but won't make any decision based on that. Whatever the ingredients, I am interested in the taste. For this price, how is this - and such. As much as i appreciate that single BA is doing a magical job, my end decision of the product can't be based on that. How does it sound and the price will decide. As an aside, Aful seems to be doing great job. Love my Aful P8s. Their new flagship is now coming: Aful Cantor (14 BA's). I guess that will be their most priced IEM.