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Moondrop Stellaris Planar Magnetic IEM

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Moondrop Stellaris Planar Magnetic IEM

Name: Moondrop Stellaris Planar Magnetic IEM
Brand: Moondrop
SKU: moondrop-stellaris-planar-magnetic-iems
Price: 79 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.733333 (15 reviews)

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Product Description

Moondrop is a name that carries quite a bit of gravity amongst audiophiles—and now the Stellaris Planar Magnetic IEM launches that reputation to the stars. Thanks to 14.5-millimeter planar magnetic drivers in each earphone, the Stellaris provides a undeniably stellar level of detail and power, without muddying up the lower frequencies Read More

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3.7

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73% would recommend to a friend

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Build Quality

4.7

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Sound

4.0

(11)

Comfort

3.1

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Flirt_Gnasty

Nov 14, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening, Gaming, Movies & TV

Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Hip-hop, Jazz, Metal, Pop, R&B, Rock, World

Verified Buyer

These sound amazing

The clarity is great for everything I listen to, the only thing to note is if you like bass, you need power. Don't expect your phone to cut it if you are blasting Yookie at max volume. Grabbed a his and hers match set and we are both happy.

Recommends this product? Yes

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rchav24

Oct 18, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening

Music Genres:Classical, Jazz, Pop

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this product is a 9/10

I like the design and the accessories that came with, most of all the color, but these are too big to fit in my ear

Recommends this product? Yes

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Grenwaa

Oct 4, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening

Music Genres:Jazz, Pop

Verified Buyer

Beautiful Stellaris

Aesthetically very beautiful IEM’s. Because they sit so far out from the

ears, choosing the correct earpieces is essential to keep them comfortably in place. I’m no expert but they sound good to me while listening to music with female vocals.

Recommends this product? Yes

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TX3017

Oct 2, 2024

Activities:Gaming

Music Genres:Classical, Country, Electronic, Hip-hop, Jazz, Metal, Pop, R&B, Rock, World

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Stellar Soundstage but Falls Short on Bass and Comfort

The Moondrop Stellaris Planar Magnetic IEMs have garnered mixed reviews. While praised for their build quality, design, and mid-to-high frequency clarity, they are critiqued for discomfort due to poor fit and lack of bass. Many users experienced fit issues, with the ear tips not sealing well, impacting sound performance. The IEMs provide a detailed soundstage but fall short in bass, which some found too flat. Despite its flaws, many consider them a good value at the price, especially for critical listening.

Recommends this product? Yes

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Tocotronic

Aug 3, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening

Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Rock

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Great looking and good sounding IEMs

These are some great looking IEMs, with an interesting technology - planar magnetic in IEMs is not found that often, and especially not at this price point. It was actually the technology that raised my interest, as I already own the 7Hz Timeless IEMs, which are also using planar magnetic drivers. But while the Moondrops actually sound well overall, they are direly missing bass, and because of that the whole lower spectrum sounds rather flat and unsatisfying (the 7Hz do much better in this frequency band). I equipped them with Comply foam ear tips to improve the sealing with the ear canal, but even that did not really solve the issue (so if you are a bass-head, these IEMs are not for you...). The mid and high frequency range, however, are rather pleasant, with a good resolution and sound stage. Summarizing, for $80 these headphones are certainly worth the money, and even if there are (much) better IEMs out there, it might be difficult to find something as good looking and sounding for that price.

Recommends this product? Yes

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Euk7

Jul 19, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening

Music Genres:Classical, Country, Hip-hop, R&B, World

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Audio and comfortable

It is very well Crafted and the audio is great however, I find it is very heavy for my ears and difficult to keep in my ears for more than an hour.

Recommends this product? No

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jakubb

Jul 15, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening, Gaming

Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Hip-hop, Metal, Pop, Rock

Verified Buyer

Disappointing headphone with cool driver tech

Very beautiful headphones but they have slightly poor ergonomics depending on your ear shape. However, the sound quality is very disappointing for what these are, even at this price point. Bass is lacking, even with the tips pushed way into my ears and the highs are tinny and sibilant in an unpleasant way leading to an overall unbalanced sound. Ran these with a Questyle M15 SE and balanced along with a Schiit Ragnarok 2 balanced; running them balanced lets them "breath" a little easier and leads to the sound not being as tiring.

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EdinNJ

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Jun 19, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening

Music Genres:Classical, Country, Electronic, Jazz, R&B, Rock, World

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Really like the sound, but the fit... oy...

First, I plugged them in to a computer and let them play non-stop for a couple days because in my experience, burn in is real with drivers (speakers, BAs, any dynamic drivers, etc.) Since then I've listened to them from my laptop; from an external USB DAC (iFi Gryphon); with an external Bluetooth receiver (also from iFi); from an iPad. BLUF: I like the sound a lot, especially at the current price, but oy, the fit... These aren't bass head IEMs but there's plenty of bass there; the touch of boost from the iFi players was all that was needed. The sound signature seems pretty well balanced, nothing's overcooked or exaggerated, so easy to listen to. I was surprised that the imaging was a touch larger than most IEMs, maybe that's because of characteristics of planar magnetic drivers. Not room size like open back headphones, but definitely bigger than the typical "it's all in your head" IEM presentation. Listened to jazz, reggae, chamber music, Afro-beat, and some 60s through 80s alternative rock. All very enjoyable, full sounding. However. These seem want to go in deeper to the ear canal than many IEMs (as several others have noted) but the tips that come with it just don't work that well. A shallow insertion was the only way to get a seal good enough for them to sound their best, but so shallow that I'd have one come out just from normal head movement. Time for some post-purchase engineering, which for an $80 IEM probably isn't something to whine about too much. The basic sound quality is really quite good, punches above its weight as the saying goes, so worth some effort to get a better fit. I may also try a cable swap, I've got a couple cables that cost much more than this IEM that I suspect would tweak the sound even better, and provide better ear holding than the stock cable.

Recommends this product? Yes

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MonetsChemist

Jun 13, 2024

Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening

Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Pop, Rock, World

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Beautiful; tough to fit; emphasized highs

Background - I have two other IEMs that I use regularly and a love/hate relationship with both: Shure SE-215 and Etymotic ER3-SE. I have several other over ear headphones, two of which I use regularly: HE 5xx and Sennheiser 6xx. I decided to give these Moondrop Stellaris IEMs a go because of the love/hate relationship with the Shure and Etymotic IEMS and at the current sale price of USD79 it wouldn't be too painful if they weren't the right thing. I've had them for about 3 hours now so this is my reaction to them out of the box:

Wow these are pretty. I feel like I should give them to my dear wife as an anniversary present. Material seems good under the finish too.
Very difficult to fit in my ear. At first I was following the comments about deep insertion but I couldn't get them to stay deep no matter the tip (unlike the Etymotics which make me feel like I'm doing brain surgery on myself). I ended up with the biggest foam tips provided and with those they sit fairly far out in the ear, roughly where my Shures end up. There I seem to get a decent seal and the bass confirms it. I might do some tip rolling at some point.
Sound is tipped up (bear in mind my comment about where the units sit in my ear; this could have an effect).
So far they are more comfortable than either the Etymotics or the Shures. The Etymotics are fine until they aren't, usually about 30 minutes into an album, but then I feel like my ear canals are getting itchy and I want to yank them out. The Shures sit in such a way that their housing puts a bit of pressure on my concha and antitragus, so after a few hours that starts to get sore.

Let's get into the sound a bit more. I like Satori's "The Gin Song" for a demo because it has lots of nice bass and the rest is clear and present and does a good job of providing a broad range of content, so if anything is over or underemphasized it stands out right away. I don't feel bass is missing and the entire frequency range sounds quite smooth. There is definitely more emphasis up top than both HE 5xx and Senn 6xx as well as the Etymotic. The extra highs aren't spitty or sharp but they are definitely present. The highs on the Shure are also quite forward, but they have always seemed to be a bit "crunchy" to me; a bit of an edge to them not present on the Moondrops, which are "hot but smoother". Listening to Newen Afrobeat's take on Fela Kuti's "Opposite People" to get some actual drum kit in here, again the sense of being closer to the cymbals, drumsticks, snare. Trying Les Negresses Vertes' "Leila", which is a bit rolled off in the top end (lo-fi before lo-fi existed?) - more detail evident than I'm used to. I could see that, with the upper-frequency emphasis, listeners might be tempted to turn the level down, which would reduce the bass and midrange. Maybe a "loudness" control or some more precise EQ would be worth trying. I'm going to leave it there for now. I'll leave the phones plugged in and running over the weekend and check back on Monday to see if anything's changed. Meanwhile, on the comfort end of things, very happy so far. No urge to yank them out and no tender spots. I agree with the comments about needing some juice to drive these babies - my little xDuoo needs the gain on high and the volume cranked up to around 25 to get decent sound out of them, quite a bit higher than either the Shure or the Etymotics. I'm saying "not recommended" because I think any recommendation would have to come with caveats about fit and emphasized highs. If anyone has some advice regarding ear-tips, please come forward.

Recommends this product? No

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