CCA CRA+ in Ear Monitor Earphone, Patented Ultra-Thin Diaphragm Dynamic Driver IEM, Clear Sound & Deep Bass, Wired Earbuds with Tangle-Free Removable Cord

These are great and very good quality sound comes from them. I have bought multiple of these

Good for the price. A little fuzzy sound

About myself: Skip ⏬ if not. ===🔴START OF INTRODUCTION 🔴=== —Background Audio equipment reviewer over 20year+ of experience in headphones/earphones/IEM/DAP, initially motivated by: Sennheiser | AKG | Sony | Bose | JVC | JBL | Westone —Bio After spending a decade with full-size headphones, home audio speakers, I shifted my main listening environment to IEM. Of which, I have over 100 personal inventories —not loaner or review unit—purchased with my hobby budget. —Instruments familiar with Drums & Guitar —On mobile I enjoyed Lexus’s Mark Levision system, and moved to Mercedes AMG’s Burmester 4D System. —Community I have been a member & reviewer at headfi.org —one of the most diversified international audio equipment enthusiast community— since 2008, have 100+ IEMs/50+ full size cans/numerous DAPs. —Affiliation Under the penalty of perjury of United States of America, 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I’m neither affiliated with any sellers/stores/makers, nor given review sample or paid for this review. I purchased this IEM from the official store at my own will with my own disposable income, for purely my personal entertainment purpose. —My IEM Reference (2022-11) Truthear HEXA ($79) | qdc Anole VX ($2,900) | 7Hz Timeless ($220) | Softears RSV ($730) | Moondrop’s Blessing 2 ($320) & Dusk ($360) | Variations ($560) | Aria OG ($70) | Kato ($200) | See Audio Bravery($350) /Yume ($190) | as well as many other current market gatekeepers such as UM MEST MKII ($1,600), Thieaudio Monarch ($760), DUNU SA6 ($560), AKG N5005($1,000), Westone W80-v3 ($1,500) besides consumer brands such as Sennheiser/ Shure / Westone / Sony / AudioTechnica / AKG/ Etymotic Research IEMs. ⏬More references at the bottom⏬ =====🔴END OF INTRODUCTION🔴===== 🔀Need to go Wireless? Get FiiO UTW3($79) or 5($139) & Choose 2-pin adapter —Good for 95% of IEMs, compatible with iPhone / Androids —About CCA CCA is a sub-brand of Budget IEM behemoth —Knowledge Zenith l, aka KZ. CCA has some re-shelled KZ product, but also has some unique ones. This CRA+ is CCA’s unique one. -About CRA+ This CRA+ is a sister of CRA. CRA+ has calmer tuning compared to CRA — an extremely energetic, thus may be a bit exhausting sister. Here is my quick walkthrough of what to expect from CRA+ —Overall tonality ▶︎very bass dominant but has quality driver compared old generations (KZ-EDX) ▶︎Sound like W-shape, not bad, junkie taste with quality backbone ▶︎good image focus ▶︎but still CRA+ can’t be good enough in technicality over LCP equipped Chu / lea. Par with Salnotes Zero, so if tuning fits your preference, it’s a good choice for $20-30 segment ▶︎This feeling is like, I had a burger that’s made with premium grade beef. Junk food with some strong taste and emphasis, but well made. ▶︎overall weight is on mid-bass & mid, treble is nicely scooped off the edgy portion. Natural? No. Good? Yea pretty good👍 At least my ear is intact and sound. ▶︎note is rich and round sounding ▶︎bass could be a bit lowered if CCA’s intention was to nerd it. Unique taste but not for everyone. ▶︎bass bleed sensitive group or basso-phobia may **** in pants ▶︎ for bassheads? Yea! CRA+ ($26) vs Tripowin Lea ($20) Lea is also has some weight on bass, but sound more natural and tuning wise, CRA+ is for punchy bass, and rich mid. If you prefer a better sound quality Lea is LCP driver equipped which is 1-class above what CRA+ have got. CRA+ ($26) vs Moondrop Chu ($20) Moondrop Chu is neutrally tuned with some spice added for sub-bass and female vocals, meanwhile CRA+ is mid-bass elevated —a little north of excessive— focused , with wide range of mid range spotlights, somehow broadway style presentation. Chu also has superior driver which is also LCP equipped which makes overall sound quality a better one. CRA+ ($26) vs 7Hz Salnotes Zero ($19) CRA+ is an IEM of emphasis (mid-bass and mid), while Salnotes Zero is colorless clean and natural sounding IEM—even good for studio monitoring for professionals in my humble opinion— both dynamic drivers share a equally compelling technicalities l, so it a matter of tuning preferences. If you like impact, CRA+, if you like natural sounding reference tuning, Salnotes Zero. CRA+($26) vs Tangzu Wan’er S.G($20) CRA+ as mentioned above, is mid-bass & mid IEM, while S.G is an IEM tuned like $2000 masterpiece, one of most sophisticated tuning you can taste for any kind of genre. Both share same level of technicalities, so it is your choice , a cheeseburger or Michelin 3-star dishes. It depends on your mood, if you are feeling junk food, yes! CRA+. Or if you are feeling tuning with philosophy, Wan’er S.G —are you still here? Wow, fine. Here is some bonus track ==🔴NEED COMMON REFERENCE? 🔴== Yes, if we share same reference, it will be a good anchor point, here you go. -Finding your personal hearing preference [Gain Spots] (i.e. HRTF anchor point) 1️⃣Google “online tone generator”, use Neutral reference IEM(Final E500) for testing. 2️⃣find your ear resonance even from sub-bass range, for me it’s 96hz. 3️⃣Multiply lowest reaonance point (for me 96hz), you can find your upper mid pinna gain range. 96x2x2x2x2x2=3,072hz (pinna gain) x 2 =6,144hx(concha gain) x 2 = third harmonics 12,288hz 4️⃣Your pinna gain spot, is most important resonance point, it is your personal Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF). Seek IEM’s frequency response graph/chart, and see if the pinna gain spot of your interest coincides with your pinna gain peak spot. If matched, assess if the resonance is too strong or weak, if you have a perfect match, you will hear IEM as if you are hearing with your own ear. 5️⃣Those recaptured gain spots, 6.1kHz and 12.3kHz dip will reduce ear resonance thus reducing fatigues but other frequency range remained clear so if will not cost huge sacrifice on total presentation. IEM fav: [ 7Hz Timeless / Salnotes Zero | Tangzu Wu Zetian | qdc Anole VX | Softears RSV | UM MEST MkII | ThieAudio Monarch | Moondrop Variations | DUNU Studio SA6 | Moondrop Kato / Dusk | XENNS Mangird Tea | TRUTHEAR HEXA | See Audio Bravery | FiiO FHE | Moondrop Stellaris | GeekWold GK10 | TRI Starsea / i3 Pro | Moondrop Aria(mod) / Chu | KBEAR Believe | KZ ZAS | DQ6S | Tripowin Lea | Kiwi Cadenza | CCA CRA+ | AFUL Performer 5 ] Wireless fav: [AKG N5005 / N400 | AirPodsPro | Moondrop Nekocake | Air3 Deluxe HS / Gamer No.1 Headset fav: Sennheiser PC38X / PC37X Fullsize-Can fav: [ Sennheiser HD560S / HD650 / Unipolar 2002 / HD25 | Yamaha HP-1 | AKG K340 | Beyerdynamic DT990PRO[600Ω] ] DAP/DAC fav: L&P W2 | FiiO M11Pro/BTR5/3K | HifiMan HM801 | Astel&Kern AK70 | Speaker: AMG Burmester 4D System ////////Shelved items(benched-roaster)//////// ——Big box Brands—— Sennheiser: IE8 / MXW1 / Momentum OE / HD414 / HD202 / PX100 / CX95 / MX90VC / OMX90VC / MX760/660/500 /HD450BT AKG: K701 / K530LTD / K450 / K171MKII /K24&26P/ IP2 / K314P / K324P / K12P Ultimate Ears: UERM / Triple.Fi 10PRO / Super.fi 5EB / Superfi 5 SONY: EXQ1 / EX90LP / EX700ST Audio Technica: ESW9 / EW9 / ANC7 Etymotic Research: ER4S / ER2SE Bang&Olufsen: A8 Phillips: SHE9700 /SHP8500 Klipsch: Custom2 Harman Kardon: EP720 Final Audio Design: E500/E1000/VR3000 JVC: HP-FX500 Westone:Westone 4/ UM2 Ultrasone: DJ1PRO V-Moda: Bassfreq ——Modern Innovative Brands—— Moondrop: Blessing 2/ Starfield / KXXS / Quarks / ShiroYuki / Nameless KZ: ZST Pro / ZS5 / ZS10 / ZS10Pro / ZSN / ZSN ProX/ AS10 / AS12 / AS16 / ASX / AST / DQ6 / ZAX / EDX / S1D / SKS / SK10 / Z1Pro / ZEX/ NRA/ZEX Pro/ T10 CCA: CS10 / C10 Pro / CA16 / CS16 / CRN TRN: VX(w/BT20ProTWS) / MT1 / VX PRO KBEAR & TRI: Stellar / KS1 / KS2 /Lark 4K / Neon / Robin QKZ: VK1 / VK3 / VK4 / KD4 / KD7 / CK3 / CK7 / CK9 See Audio: Yume Tangzu/T-Force : Wan’er S.G ThieAudio: Legacy 3 |NICEHCK: DB3 | FiiO/ JadeAudio: EA3 | Surplex: HD668B/HD661 | HZSound: Heart Mirror | NF Audio: NM2+ | Tripowin: Mele ——Start Up Brands—— GS Audio:ST10 /GT12 | GeekWold: GK3 | OpenHeart: Resin | CCZ: Plume/Coffee Bean DC-01 Other Old classics: HPM1000 | JBL Reference410 | Yamaha YH-100 | Fostex T50RP | Grado SR225 | TEAC HP102 | Goldring GR-104 | STAX SR40 | Marantz HP101 | ////////END OF Shelved items////////

I was shocked a5 how good these sound for the price. Heck they beat out several of my headsets for clean sound. TBF I had moderate to low expectations, so these blew that expectation out of the water! 6month update: the tips just don't quite fit right or something. I can't for the life of me get the right ear to stay in. It's like the cord pulls on it, twisting it right out of my ear. I'm testing some 3rd party tips and it's better but not fixed. Having the cord loop over the ear be formatted would be a VAST improvement.

I wanted to try these IEM because of the Ultra-Thin DLC Diaphragm Dynamic Driver. Without tuning my audio I did a gaming, music, and a movie session. First the gaming session, I noticed the clicking at times, especially when firing a gun high-pitch gun and with footsteps. Unlike other IEM, I could determine the direction of gunfire, but the distance was still a little lacking. During the music session, it was really noticeable with the clicking, I played mostly rock and heavy metal and a little of hip hop. I started tuning my audio to fit the sound better. I read a previous review that these were for bass head, which is very true. I even noticed the clicking when I had the equalizer at flat. When, I played a YouTube, the clicking was very noticeable when the host talked and I watched a couple of anime and various action movies.

Very good quality tight sound very loud I like these a lot I will tell everyone I know!,,

These IEMs sound very good in my studio for shooting YouTube vids when I don't want big cans on my head. I've tried several in this price range and nothing compares so far to the sound. I found using memory foam nozzle tips makes them very comfortable for longer sessions.

actually blown away by how good these are. I love the pricepoint. only downside is one of my earcuffs feels loose, like it doesnt really conform to the shape i need it to, and feels like it comes off my ear. if there was a stiff wire in the cuff to make them moldable and keep a shape that would make these so much better. luckily the cable is detachable so maybe you can just get a new cable with better ear cuffs

Great sound and was very satisfied with them, but gave them to my friend once I got the Tangzhu W'aner (I think that's how you spell it?)