Never seen George Cardas before. From the way he presented himself, I was trying to decide whether he was a brilliant eccentric or just another audio kook.

I was on the same page with him when he was talking in-ear measurements, impedance matching, etc. But Eddy currents in an IEM magnet and all the other mat sci.? I guess I should read up more on this stuff before passing judgement on the guy. Wish I had a transcript to work with because I couldn't really remember what he was getting at in the first place.

Weren't these the continuously delayed iems? I remember following their thread a few years back but I never thought it would push through.

Broken LCD3s would be giving them too much credit. Really really thick sounding with not much low bass. No resolving power. Rolled off treble.

Other ways of describing:

FAD1601 bandwidth (without the charm of the cavernous sound effect), but with thicker bass.
Veiled LCD3, but subtract resolving capability and low bass power of LCD3, and add some high bass low mids.

I've heard some bad IEMs, so it's hard for me to say POS.

Well, I feel I have to caveat my impressions somewhat.  The Cardas IEMs are not incoherent in signature or do they sound like they were tuned by a blind monkey.  There is a deliberate 'Cardas tune' to them meaning don't expect much of anything above 2khz.  So if people like that for the price maybe it'll be okay.  Think maybe a warmer, darker Monster Turbine Gold with better imaging depth, less robust bass but still abundantly present.  Something like that.  If you know Cardas, he's allergic to treble so he achieved what he set out to do.  I guess the way he set them up last year as being a revolutionary product I'd expect more than a sidegrade tune of a performance level already available on the market more than 2 years ago.  So compared to the ER4/UERM type sig and performance level, we felt they were a big let down.  Now perhaps next to the 1601 price performance, these are a bargain?