Moondrop CHU II High Performance Dynamic Driver IEMs Interchangeable Cable in-Ear Headphone

I purchased these after my pair of noname IEMs died, since they're the top selling pair on amazon under $25. I use these to edit a podcast, and they work great and are pretty transparent. For the price, these things are an unbelievable deal. They sound great with both music and spoken word, they're comfortable for extended wear, and the all-metal housing is really sturdy. The cable is also really nice - it's thick and doesn't tangle easily. When these die, I'll probably just get another pair since I don't really want or need anything else. My only complaint is with static - it's winter when I'm writing this, and with the air being really dry, these have a tendency to give a very slight, occasional static shock when your ear touches the metal body. It doesn't hurt but you can hear it and it just kinda feels weird. Is it a dealbreaker though, absolutely not. Also, very minor thing, what's up with the anime girl on the packaging? It's kind of embarrassing when you just want some headphones, I get that some people like it but it's a super weird branding choice. Update after 8 months of almost-daily wear - I typically wear these in an office with only one ear in so I can hear what's going on around me, and I've noticed that the left ear (the one I would wear most often) has dropped in volume by about 80% while the right ear is perfectly fine. No idea what caused it, it just happened one day. I'm not dinging it any stars since it's still a crazy value for the quality you're getting, but don't expect too much longevity out of these if you wear them frequently. Update after over a year of near-daily use - these unfortunately died on me a couple of weeks ago. Wearing them in only one ear at a time, I noticed that the ear that I would favor would slowly diminish in volume in the last two weeks of its lifespan, and at a certain point it would fully die on that side. Then I'd switch to the other side, extending its life a few months, but the same thing eventually happened where the volume would gradually lower until it stopped working entirely. I decided to branch out and try a new set after these (the Linsoul Salnotes Zero) and the Moondrops are far and away the best build quality I've found in this price range. Sound quality is similar with decent clarity on both, but I noticed that these are tuned with a bit more bass and slightly more high end detail. So if you're using these in a studio or editing situation, I would maybe look for a pair with a flatter response. Otherwise, if you're using these for casual listening or really anything else, they'll sound great and last you a little while before you have to replace them.

By Hi-Tek HQ – Real Tech. No Hype. Let’s be honest—these aren't endgame IEMs. They won't make you cry in FLAC or hear ghost notes in Beethoven’s 9th. But they will make you do a double take when you realize they cost less than a pizza and sound better than some $80 hypetrash. I mean… think about what $20 gets you nowadays: • A streaming service you’ll forget to cancel • A gas station lunch that fights back • Or these—a pair of metal-shelled, Spring Tip-equipped, properly tuned IEMs that might just ruin mainstream earbuds for you permanently. --- 🔧 Specs & Build – Fancy on a Fast-Food Budget Driver: 10mm dynamic Impedance: 18Ω — easy to power, even from a potato Sensitivity: 120dB — gets loud enough to drown out poor life choices Cable: Decent quality, no microphonics and no you can't tow your car with it. Shell: Aluminum alloy—lightweight, sleek, and way too nice for this price Eartips: Includes Moondrop Spring Tips (seriously, those cost $10 alone) —Moondrop essentially gave you a free IEM with your Spring Tips purchase. It’s like ordering fries and finding a chicken sandwich in the bag. --- 🎧 Sound – Budget Harman Done (Mostly) Right ✅ The Good: Tuning: U-shaped with clarity up top and a tasteful bass lift. It’s not reference-grade, but it knows what it's trying to be. Vocals & Detail: Clean, articulate, surprisingly coherent. You’ll hear background layers you didn’t expect at this price. Treble: Bright, sparkly, mostly well-behaved. It tries hard to be impressive without stabbing you in the ears. Imaging: Narrow stage, but good left-right separation. Like a well-behaved studio apartment. ❌ The Bad: Bass Control: Starts tight, ends flabby. Play Kendrick Lamar – DNA at 2:00 and the bass gets messy like a toddler with pudding. Treble Peaks: Slight zing around 7–8k. Not icepick-sharp, but borderline fatiguing on long sessions. --- 🎮 Gaming Test – “Footsteps? Kinda.” Plugged into a Fosi K7, the Chu II handled ambient cues fine. In Hogwarts Legacy and God of War, you’ll catch enough detail to feel immersed. But in Call of Duty? Let’s just say: you'll know someone’s near. You just won’t know if they’re upstairs, behind you, or breathing down your neck with a shotgun. Not competitive-tier, but usable. For ranked or sweaty lobbies, use a something else instead. These are for chill vibes, not killstreaks. --- 🎼 Audiophile Cred – The Gateway Drug For new audiophiles? This is the gateway IEM that opens Pandora’s box. You’ll love it—until you start hearing its limitations... and the next thing you know, you’re buying a DAC, a stack, and justifying $300 cables to your spouse. For veterans? It’s your backup set. Your glovebox IEM. Your “hey listen to this” intro for friends stuck in EarPod purgatory. --- 💬 Final Verdict – Hi-Tek HQ Says: The Chu II is the kid who shows up to the gym with solid form, decent muscle, and great potential… but never does leg day. It’s admirable. It’s capable. But it’s not complete. Yet for $20? It’s criminal how good this is. If you have a heartbeat and two ears, buy it. Worst case? You score Spring Tips and get a free IEM in the box. 🟢 Buy it if: You want clean, confident sound with a touch of sparkle You’re just starting out in the hobby You want to gift something that makes people say “Wait... this is $20?!” 🔴 Skip it if: You crave thunderous bass or holographic soundstage You already own better and have no use for a sidepiece 🔊 Score: 8.3/10 – Honest value, slight flaws, big impact. 💼 Reviewed by Hi-Tek HQ – Come for the Sound. Stay for the Sanity Check.

My first ever iems. I was wary on why it's so cheap but turns out iems are price to performance accordingly around the hundrend ranges. These blow all the wireless earbuds and headphones I used just for $23 which is an absolute value for your money! Highly recommend you get and plug into a dac to make it even more worth it. Good: Sound quality blows wireless ear buds / headphones out of the water Very light and the material seems strong not fragile plug and play Branding is pretty cool (if u like anime style stuff) Cons: The eartips are tips are a PAIN to put on. Like a really tight fit. I accidentally ripped one trying to stretch it too much to fit in the iem. So be patient when putting them on and keep rubbing side tilting it till it's slightly in then push in all the way. The cord seems cheap so do treat it to harshly be somewhat careful with it. The two pin connectors can be tight to put in too so again be patient when pushing it it. You'll need more force then you think.

The sound at first seemed normal, but now as I get used to it, I noticed it’s actually better than I thought? I think the audio quality is a bit subjective. At the very least, the audio isn’t cheap sounding. The box it comes with is cute, I’ve kept it in my room as a little decor. The silicone tips were harder to put on than I thought. I really struggled with it, but at least you know it won’t fall off easily. The earphones itself are metal, which makes it durable and heavier than your average plastic earphones. The weight isn’t noticeable since it goes in your ear. The texture of the cable is like thin clear PVC pipe, I assume it is, since it is kind of stiff, glossy and slick compared to other cables. Through it, you can see the wire is silver, which suggests it is silver-plated copper, which means it should be better sounding than Apple Earpods which use just copper wires. The earphones are actually curved just like in the photo. You can’t straighten them out, it is in a fashion of a sport-hook attachment if you wrap it around your earlobe it makes the earphones less likely to fall out. So besides me struggling with putting the silicone ear tips on, this product is great. However, one weird thing is the pricing of the cables you’re supposed to replace them with is similar to the earphones’ price itself! Add shipping to it, and at that point just buy the whole thing again. So double check the replacement cable prices before buying it, if you’re buying this mostly for the detachable cable feature.

The Moondrop CHU II offers excellent clarity and detail for the price, with a lightweight fit and a much‑appreciated interchangeable cable. They deliver a clean, energetic sound that works well across most genres and generally outperform many IEMs in their price range. The only drawback I noticed is a slight peak around the 4 kHz region, which can make vocals or certain instruments sound a bit tinny or sharp at times. It is not a dealbreaker, but it is noticeable if you are sensitive to upper mids. Fortunately, this issue is easy to fix with a bit of EQ. Reducing the 4 kHz range by about 2 to 4 dB smooths out the harshness without affecting the overall clarity. Most EQ apps, such as Wavelet or Peace APO, make this adjustment simple. After applying this small tweak, the CHU II sounds significantly more balanced and enjoyable. Overall, these are strong performers for the price, and with a quick EQ adjustment they become an even better value.

These are great sounding IEMS for the price if on sale. They fit in darn near any ear type too! There are two problem . The ear tips that where included are a tight fit if not too small. The other thing is after a while one of my earbuds started fading until it ceased working. Moisture from the ear channel can build up inside the earbud eventually causing it to fail. It can come back after being left to dry so sorter listening sessions are recommended. I bought them for longer podcast and streaming sessions during the heat of summer instead of using my over the ear headphones. Over time with repeated moisture build up and drying one of the earbuds (left in my case) failed in a permanent state so for me the longevity was only 6-8 months.

Okay, okay, the title is SLIGHTLY misleading, but is true. I have built up quite the collection of IEMs, including Truthears, Crinears, a butt-ton of KZs, FiiOs, Bose, Nothing Ears, and probably more I haven't thought of, and even with my go-to sets being between the CrinEar Reference and the Nothing Ear (open) depending on my use cases throughout the day, that's just throughout the day. Come nighttime, size and profile suddenly matters a whole lot more, chances are high I'm going to be trying to shove them between my head and a pillow for anywhere from six to ten hours. And THAT's where these still remain uncontested in my life, they are the only ones small enough to be comfortable in that situation, while still touting sound quality more than acceptable enough for me to enjoy. The only other competitor I've found in size are the Samsung/AKG IE955s, and despite what a certain youtuber some people in the audio world may claim, I cannot stand how those things sound, and the EQ profiles that guy praises them with are so extreme none of my equipment, neither hardware nor software, can adjust to the values needed to even replicate those EQs properly. Compared to that, these don't need EQ at all, and it doesn't take them much EQ to go from good to great, though they don't quite hit the fantastic bar of some of my other IEMs, that's more than fair considering they cost a meal for one at a restaurant. Of course, I'm kind of just reviewing the IEMs themselves, I've completely disregarded the tips and cable; I did try to use those early on, but in my ears the tips kept slipping out regardless of size, and while the cable is good, I replaced it with an inline mic cable so I can take calls when they're on my phone. The cable and tips I'm on as of this review are the Moondrop MC1 and the CrinEar Reference Standard Bore Small, which seem to be the only ones I've found so far on my journey to stay in, be comfy, and not start slipping over time (Please Crinacle can you sell these on their own???). YMMV on how you may feel about the stock tips, everybody's ears are different, I recognize that mine are just particularly unusually difficult to cater to. If you're hesitant and just looking to get in to IEMs cheap, Go with these, they will match or outclass nearly everything up to the hundred dollar price bracket, the only set I've personally found to stand above them in the sub-$100 bracket is the original Sivga Que, and that's putting aside the size/sleep aspect that is the entire reason I keep these so close with options like the CrinEar Reference to sing the praises of.

High Quality drivers: well balanced full range, crisp vocals, strong punchy lows, clear well defined highs. Metal housing with gorgeous gloss back and gold plated driver to ear tip. Silicone ear tips that are soft and unnoticeable. Lightweight and tested to fit S/M/L ears and doesn’t stick out. I’m starting to forget I have them on and I love this feeling. If you have a 4.4mm device, you can always get a new wire with 2 pins. Works great as well.

I bought these to use while my $1500 ultimate ears IEMs are being repaired. I'm quite shocked at not only the sound quality but also the construction. The frequency response is balanced overall with nice bass definition. As with all IEMs, you must choose the right tips for a good seal. The biggest difference I notice compared to my custom IEMs is that the imaging/stereo field is not as clearly defined and open when listening to detailed mixes. But for pop music genres, or live gigs - these are insane!

Subbasslar az gelbilir ama brnim içim yormayan detaylı ve hızlı bir kulaklık. 2.5 sene sonrasında ikinci alışım kendisini

Le Moondrop CHU II sono cuffie in-ear di qualità sorprendente per il prezzo. L'audio è chiaro e bilanciato, con bassi presenti ma non invadenti e alti dettagliati. Perfette per ascoltare musica in modo immersivo senza spendere una fortuna. Il design è elegante e confortevole, e il cavo intercambiabile è un plus che aumenta la longevità del prodotto. Anche dopo lunghe sessioni di utilizzo, rimangono comode da indossare. Se cerchi IEMs ad alte prestazioni che offrano un audio di qualità superiore senza svuotarti il portafoglio, queste cuffie sono un'ottima scelta. Consigliate per audiofili e non solo!

某動画で実機の測定結果も踏まえて「特性は高級機と遜色ないし左右差等のバラつきもなく性能的にはこの価格で全く不足ない」とお勧めされていたので購入（セール中\3900） イヤホン購入は久しぶりですが、この価格でこのビルドクオリティと充実した音質は凄いですね やや重い金属筐体で質感は価格以上ですし、わりとゴツいのにそこまで装着感も悪くない ステムが極太で付属イヤーピースが無理やりねじ込むような装着なのでやや注意 自分はスピンフィットNEOに交換して使用していますが、こちらのほうが装着に余裕がありシリコン素材のフィット感も快適なのでお勧めです ケーブルはかなりクセが強く絡みやすいのでこちらも適当なものに交換（上記イヤーチップと合わせ\3000程度の安物です） 音質の方ですが、測定結果だとハーマンカーブをほぼ再現した優秀な特性となっていました 実際かなり鮮明で密度感もあり聴いていて不足感が全く無い充実した音質 自分は基本スピーカー派でイヤホンのセコい音と脳内定位は好きではないのですが、こと音質に関してはこの格安イヤホンで全く不満がない時点で優秀性を実感出来ます 個人的には「ちょっと中低域の量が多い」とは感じますがそこは好みの問題 測定結果で判明してる理想に近い特性に対して自分がどう感じるか？がわかるのも自身の嗜好が理解できて面白い やや凹型で高域寄りの特性なので、中域強めが好みならイコライザーでその辺りを変えると良いかと ただスマホ直刺しや低品質のイヤホンジャックへの接続だと全く評価が変わるので注意 ヘッドホンアンプを通した音とは雲泥の差なので、この製品本来の性能を味わいたいならある程度のアンプ性能がある機器で使いましょう 音源の差もかなり明確に聴こえるので、良い音源・良い機器で聴くほどに質が上がり、それに追従できるだけの性能があるということです ただオーディオ環境に興味も投資もしない人にとっては若干鳴らし難い機種と言えるので、使用環境によっては本機より感度が良く鳴らしやすい機種をお勧めします ほぼエントリークラスと言っていいこの価格でこの音質と所有満足度すら感じれる質感 実機測定で証明されている高性能が手に入るのは凄い時代になったものです 流石に付属品の質は褒められた物ではありませんが、そこは自分なりにカスタマイズすれば良いし、それも楽しめる人には文句無しにお勧めです

Build Quality: Metal feels nice . They feel premium wich is insane to think about considering their low price . The cable feels rather cheap and tickles my ears sometimes wich is a little bit uncomfortable. The ear tips are good but not amazing Fit : They fit really good and seal well . They go deeper than I expected ( more than like tws earbuds ) but it’s not uncomfortable. The shell is small so it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone Sound : They sound a bit light . Bass is nice but could be elevated a few db . Bass quality is also okay , not bad but not amazing. Mids are excellent. Nothing to say honestly EarGain . Feels wide and open . For my taste a bit too much tho but nothing that makes them sound shouty Treble . Treble is airy and sparkly . Doesn’t sound peaky . Not 100% detailed but really good . I mean 19€ c‘mon . Verdict. If you’re looking for your first IEM and don’t want to spend too much , then this should be your pick . Sound is really good (4/5) Build is also really good (3/5) And they should fit anyone (4/5)