Look, the name “YBF-ISS014” is awful to remember and to type out, so I’ll henceforth refer to this IEM as the Urbanfun “Yiss”. That should save me and everyone else the headache of typing out its whole name or vaguely referring to it as “those Urbanfuns”.

I’ve honestly never heard of the brand Urbanfun till the Yiss hype, but from a little extra research it seems that they’ve had a small (but very dedicated) cult following before the boom. More notably, the Urbanfun “Hi-Fi” which is a $20 IEM that put the brand on the audiophile map, though it seems that Urbanfun is closer to an OEM company than a retail brand given models like “generic unnamed dynamic driver headphone” or the “generic unnamed dynamic driver IEM #1“. Though to be fair, they have some decently named models as well like the “generic unnamed dynamic driver IEM #2“, and who could ever forget the legendary “generic unnamed dynamic driver IEM #3“.

Apologies for the Aliexpress links, that was the only place I could find any info on Urbanfun products.

So what makes the Yiss so different from its generic brethren to be gaining all these newfound attention? Well, it’s an IEM that pretty much rides on the coattails of the much-hyped BLON BL-03, some would argue due to its passing resemblance in its housing design. In reality, they couldn’t be more different from one another, but more on that later.

I guess the big question on everyone’s mind now is, does the Yiss have what it takes to dethrone its lookalike cousin?

Product page: https://www.linsoul.com/products/urbanfun-ybf-iss014

MSRP: $60

Driver configuration: single DD

This YBF-ISS014 was kindly provided by Linsoul.