Welcome to my Cliffnotes, a series where I push out rapid fire opinions of some of the IEMs I’ve heard while I was back in Singapore during the month of July. Thus I won’t get too in-depth, nor will I be too formal and technical. Less analysis, more… from-the-heart if you will.

It’s the 9th of August! Happy independence day to the good old city-state of Singapore, one of the various meccas of the IEM community and my homeland where I disturb every audio store in the country.

Today I figured I’d engage in a bit of patriotism and go through Advanced AcousticWerke’s (AAW) new lineup of IEMs. AAW had been on a rocky path recently; once one of the pioneers in the emerging hybrid scene a few years back, it seems that they have fallen off the radar. Even the local community calls them “Singaporean chifi”, given their manufacturing processes and their heavy focus on the Chinese market these days. Would their new lineup prove to be their redemption?

(I forgot to take pictures so in lieu of eyecandy, I’ll just plaster the graphs so the article doesn’t look so dreary.)