
Kiwi Ears Cadenza II
The $50 heir to a cult budget IEM: a natural midrange nearly everyone praises, and a bass, treble and soundstage that split the room.
11 reviews
Budget to mid-tier IEMs
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Kiwi Ears is an in-ear monitor brand operated as the house brand of the Chinese distributor Linsoul, with a catalogue that runs from budget single-dynamic sets to multi-driver hybrids and planars.

The $50 heir to a cult budget IEM: a natural midrange nearly everyone praises, and a bass, treble and soundstage that split the room.

The IEM that brought 'new meta' tuning under $200 — praised for its midrange and comfort, and argued over for how much bass, how much treble and how much excitement it leaves in.

The $35 single-DD that measures close to the Harman target — and still splits listeners on its bass, its seal and one narrow treble peak.

Ten armatures, one sealed shell. Reviewers agree on the mids and the isolation — and split on the bass, the treble and the fit.

Twenty-six graphs agree on what the switches do. Eleven ranking critics score it anywhere from 2.9 to 8.

The midrange is the point. The bass, the bite and the fit are where reviewers stop agreeing.

Built around the loudest new idea in drivers, then tuned to keep it whispering.

Crinacle's Helmholtz experiment works exactly as advertised. Whether it seals in your ears is the coin flip.

Six reviewers hear no sibilance. Two owners hear nothing but. Both rigs show the 8 kHz peak that explains why.

A $219 quadbrid nobody argues is bad value — and everybody argues about at the treble and the mid-bass.

A $299 gaming-and-detail hybrid everyone agrees images brilliantly — and argues about at the treble, the fit and the mid-bass.
Prices in USD, recorded when each review was updated.