Utterly breathtaking
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Utterly breathtaking. You need to invest in a pair of Flares if you love music.
l have spent years buying high end IEMs in the £600- £1000 range from the big brands. Now you can have truly extraordinary quality for half of that. Davies and the team are clearly magicians.
GAVIN: ZERO CUSTOMER
Superlative beyond expectations
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Highly recommended. These diminutive in ears manage to eclipse a pair of headphones I have that cost over £2000.
Do not ignore.
To me, they shine!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"I have severe hearing loss, with only about 10% hearing in one ear, so I EQ my computer to boost the higher frequencies.
The first song I played through the Flares was George Duke’s “It’s On”—the original studio version. For the first time ever, I could clearly tell that the Rhodes had been recorded through speakers. I had never heard or even noticed that detail before.
Considering my hearing loss, that says a lot.
I’m genuinely impressed."
JACQUES: ZERO CUSTOMER
A thing of beauty
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I have just spent the evening importing some of my favourite albums once again on Apple music in lossless quality and kept hearing new subtle adjustments in the mix and timbres of the songs I love.
So many of the tracks from these albums reveal new textures, be it in the overlap of sax and vocals in Redman or the wild flutes and full range of vocals in I Lost My Mind and The World Is Mean by McLorin Salvant, or the bounce of the bass in ALA.NI's Sunshine Music...
I think these in-ear speakers will probably live up to the hype. I am definitely on board for the journey as I'll continue to revisit my library and look out for new sounds. Listening with these reminded me of my musicology studies, the enlivening quality of attending performances by amazing artists, the pleasures of deciphering between horn and wind sections in a band.
Well done team Flare!
All the best,
N.
NICHOLAS: ZERO CUSTOMER
Flare outdo themselves
once again
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I own numerous Flare IEMs, and each one just gets better and better.
I was really settling in with my Studio Masters when the Zero were announced, and it didn't take much persuasion for me to pull the trigger.
They still pack the punch of the Studio series but in a gentler, subtler way. One description I have given is that rather than sounding like a performance has just begun, the delicacy of the sound is as if music is already playing and you have just walked closer to it. The sound isn't forced upon you, your ears just hear it.
None of this goes without mentioning the fantastic team at Flare Audio who check in on you consistently regarding order status and customer satisfaction. They are a company who really care how their customers feel.
ALEX: ZERO CUSTOMER
