The ZiiGaat x Hangout.Audio Odyssey 2 is a 2025 hybrid IEM — one 10 mm bio-cellulose dynamic driver plus three Knowles balanced armatures (1DD + 3BA) — in a cast-aluminium shell with hand-poured resin faceplates and a modular 3.5 / 4.4 mm cable, tuned toward the 'meta' / JM-1 reference target of Crinacle's Hangout.Audio and selling for roughly $249 (about $224 at Amazon). Reviewers agree on the core: a balanced, gently V-shaped, warm-leaning tuning that plays every genre without offending; a clean, natural, transparent midrange (vocals a highlight, never shouty); a tight, well-extended sub-bass that stays out of the mids; a wide-for-an-IEM stage with solid imaging; an easy-to-drive load (20 Ω, 105 dB) in a premium, best-yet ZiiGaat shell; and above-average isolation. The disagreements are what make it interesting. The treble splits reviewers between 'smooth, safe and non-fatiguing — deliberately rolled off to kill sibilance' and 'too rolled off, short on air and sparkle,' with a separate minority who instead read the lower-treble lift as slightly bright or fatiguing. Value is genuinely contested: most editorial and community voices call it an easy, versatile pick that punches above its price, while the measurement camp (led by Frieve) argues it's only average measured performance from off-the-shelf parts, with the same 'meta' tuning available cheaper in sets like the ZiiGaat Daybreak. Two practical caveats recur: the bass and dynamics scale with power and can sound dull or 'uneventful' at low volume, and the thin stock cable (and, for some ears, the chunky fit and stock tips) is a near-universal complaint.
About this product
The 2025 ZiiGaat x Hangout.Audio Odyssey 2 — a 1DD + 3BA hybrid (a 10 mm 2nd-generation bio-cellulose dynamic driver for bass, two Knowles 32873 balanced armatures for the mids, one Knowles 33518 for treble) in a cast-aluminium shell with hand-poured resin faceplates and a modular cable with swappable 3.5 / 4.4 mm plugs, tuned toward the 'meta' / JM-1 reference target of Crinacle's Hangout.Audio graph platform. A retuned, tamer successor to the original 2024 ZiiGaat Odyssey (same driver count, but bassier and more V-shaped) — not the ZiiGaat Daybreak, Horizon, Arcanis or Tea Pro.
ZiiGaat is the mid-range in-ear brand in Linsoul's stable — a sister label to ThieAudio — and for the Odyssey 2 it partnered with Hangout.Audio, the IEM measurement and graph platform run by the reviewer Crinacle. The result is a roughly $249 hybrid: a single 10 mm bio-cellulose dynamic driver for the lows plus three Knowles balanced armatures, in a cast-aluminium shell with hand-poured resin faceplates and a modular 3.5 / 4.4 mm cable, tuned toward the platform's 'meta' (JM-1) reference target.
It arrives with a strong reputation as a safe, do-everything set, and reviewers broadly agree the build, comfort and smooth, versatile tuning are its strengths. The arguments are about the rest: whether the early treble roll-off is refinement or a lack of air, whether it's genuinely great value or just the meta tuning you can buy cheaper elsewhere, and a stock cable that almost everyone singles out as the weak link.
