But if you take a closer look, the shell of the KS2 is really thin and looks like it would crack if you drop it.

SOUNDSTAGE is more intimate, less wide and tall but way deeper, IMAGING is from another league, precise and clean with more amount of sound layers. The boosted bass feels like it should be marketed to those who love bass-heavy music, but the inability to separate instrumentation and similar frequencies completely destroys EDM and like genres.The Dynamic Driver of the KBEAR Believe is able to produce a good performance in the lower frequency region, especially in the midbass area. Full foams thicken the sound too much for my preference, make the low end a little bloated, and significantly hinder detail and clarity, particularly in the mids.

Depth is a little less noticeable giving the Stellar a sound that is more broad and wide than rounded off. I did find them a bit fatiguing to use for long periods of time and often found myself eyeing up my collection of over-ears and more relaxed in-ear IEMs. I, however, have not listened to an earbud that does this particularly well, and the Stellar is the best I have right now. Regarding their earbuds, their first release was the unique and more expensive Knight, which received polarizing views, as they were tuned not like the typical sub-20 buds (they were bright-sounding).

And with fairly minimal sound leakage, there’s no place you can really go wrong with wearing them, from the office to to gym. The KBEAR Believe is an In-Ear Monitor with a mildly warm tonality and show a noticeable emphasis in the midbass and upper midrange/lower treble regions.

Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. You can nitpick a few things here and there like the slightly recessed vocals (personal preference), average soundstage and distortion at really higher volumes, but it is important to consider how cheap these are. Like most earbuds, the Stellar provides a spacious sound more akin to a closed-back headphone than an in-ear.

I was really pleasantly surprised when I first tested out the KB EAR Stellar with my metal and rock tracks but I did not think much of it. Normally, glossy finishes get scratched up quite easily, especially when they don’t come with any sort of carrying case or pouch to protect them. Remember this is a budget in-ear designed as an improved replacement for smartphone audio with a retail around 20 USD so an extended kit is not expected. The cabling is standard KZ, and on a number of my units I tend to replace that cabling with upgraded pieces, some from Linsoul, KZ's parent company. The cable is made of 4 strands and 40 cores of with Furukawas’s 6N purity Single Crystal Cooper Litz wire material.