Morning, and this is a tl;dr material. Please skip it if you think your 10 minutes is worth elsewhere, or you may join my rants now~
Today isn't a Sunday, here isn't a church, but I have a confession to make on my recent purchase of FAD PF IX.

I was troubled for many months on my habit of listening to sounds. Despite the music playing gloriously in my ear canals, I realized that most of the time my mind keeps on focusing on the little thing. Like how the drums slam, the trumpets blow,the cymbals crash, or any other instruments playing. I enjoyed very much of "looking" at the sounds, and the quality of timbre of the gears. Having Flat-4-Sui really satisfies my craving for these "details", but deep down in my heart, I felt something wasn't right. Something.

I first heard the PF VIII during a local meet, alongside with the likes of TG334, JH13/16 demo, and a few others which sounds more "correctly". Before that, I read much about how people describe PF series projecting sepia, retro and quaint feeling, especially from the photo comparison by james444 in the HF-FAD thread. When I played familiar tracks out from the horn-like nozzles, the word "wrong" keeps on popping out of my mind like an alarm triggered. It sounds so wrong on my Bon Jovi, it sounds so wrong on the drums, well, everything but the vocals is off. And that was my maiden experience on PF which left me thinking: Would I get something like that at all?

A week ago, I was juggling around a few other choices between TG334, JH13, W4R, Flat-4-Kaede or amps/dacs which is within my pocket depth at that time. I decided to plunge into the "fad" by handing out my extra savings in exchange for the PF IX. I knew I was out of my mind, I kept telling myself am I doing the right thing? I know the only reason which convinced me to go all daring on getting one of the outliers of IEM world.

It was the singularity of the sound signature.

I realize that for one moment, I wasn't paying attention to the sounds. I am listening to the song as a whole. Honestly, in a typical perspective, PF is one of worst in terms of balance and FR to me. It is all mids. Well, occasionally, I an hear some drums here and there, and a little treble peak from time to time, but the feel is just unique. Gone are the little details which became my OCD, and now I find my music much more enjoyable when I don't have to (and can't) concentrate on finding the little men in the song.

I guess it's a confession when i say, I didn't get PF for its superb SQ or anything. But rather, the look and the feel for it. I find the housing elegant like a jewelry, and I'm impressed by its unique presentation. Finally, I can convince my impulsive brain to stop analyzing music, and just sit down in the middle of the mini-hall and hear what the singer is singing, and allow the background music to be just background instead of the focal point.

I am weird. Not everybody would agree with me. I took an expensive way to change my music-listening experience. By the way, I saw the word: HI-FI printed on the box, I guess it could've insulted a few people who have different idea on what HIFI should be.

Thanks for reading my confession.