Nevergiveup In The Belief And Oppoty To LetMusicBurn – The Evolution Of BLON BL-05s
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The story behind BLON BL-05s is quite an interesting one but earphone development is an extremely boring subject thus I don’t want to bore you with too much detail. Let’s keep it short and sweet. All-in-all, its development stretched a total period of about 10 months.
Life of the BLON BL-05s did not begin after BL-05, rather it started after BLON BL-03. The idea was conceived when BLON wanted Jurgen’s and mine input on how to improve the BL-03. Both Crinacle and Hawaii Bad Boy contributed their valuable opinions as well. The intention of this tuning was meant to be an upgrade from BLON BL-03.
So how did the original BLON BL-05 come into the picture? During the fourth quarter of 2019, BLON was experimenting with the idea of piezoelectric drivers and they included it into their BL-05 earliest prototype… Which we know turned out to be a total flop thanks to a well-known friend’s over-enthusiastic YouTube review. The idea of a piezoelectric-equipped BLON BL-05 thus disappeared into thin air.
To cash-in on a higher-priced earphone, BLON banked on the success of BLON BL-03, dropped the piezoelectric driver and sold BLON BL-05 for almost 2x the price. Yes, the BLON BL-05 had cleaner bass and midbass compared to BLON BL-03 but was cursed by the “see-saw effect”. That is whenever bass is lowered, treble MUST be reduced if not the tuning will sound bright and harsh – similar to levelling a balancing scale beam. Eventually, the BL-05 was mercilessly bashed by both Crinacle and HBB… Of course BLON wasn’t pleased at all.
Aggrieved by the outcome, BLON decided to engage help from a close friend. This close friend contacted both Jurgen and myself (also our close friend) to re-tune the BL-05. After experimenting with their 3rd generation CNT driver (which has a thicker CCAW voice coil compared to 2nd generation), BLON sent us the “BL-05 MK2”, which sounded quite good… Almost Hana-like… Both Jürgen and I liked it… BUT… A slip of my tongue triggered BLON to scrap the tuning, and that is “Hana-like”. As we know Tanchjim is a business client of BLON’s, so it is definitely a no-go.
After a few WeChat correspondence with our common friend, BLON finally decided to base the final tuning of the BL-05s on my BL-03 improvement proposal “blueprint”. Hence, BLON BL-05s can be considered a BLON BL-03 “Mark 2”.
If you wonder what the future of BLON BL-03 lies… Will there be a “real” BL-03 Mark 2 or BL-03s (whichever name it shall be called)… Well, I can’t foresee the future but there is a plan for a BL-03 successor. Meanwhile, enjoy your BLONBL-05s… It is worth waiting 10 months!
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