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Experience Elysian’s Award-Winning House Tuning
Have we heard all the rave about the legendary ANNIHILATOR and its sister DIVA? We’ve unpacked what makes these two products special and compacted them into a small, starter IEM. This is what exceptional lows, mids, and highs should be like—no compromises, even at a lower price point. That’s it. That’s our PILGRIM.
Hand-Picked Hybrid Setup for Premium Sound
Featuring a purposeful hand-picked hybrid setup with one customized LSR dynamic driver and two different types of balanced armatures, the PILGRIM provides an authentic Elysian House sonic experience. Coupled with premium aluminum and precision 3D printing for its internal chambers, you can expect perfect consistency with high durability.
Naturally Coherent and Harmonious Sound
PILGRIM is tuned personally by Lee, using two distinct types of custom-tailored Sonion drivers to extract the unique strengths of each driver. The aim is to deliver an incredible and harmonious listening experience, achieving technical excellence. The Sonion 2300 for mids ensures a versatile, smooth midrange response, creating a well-balanced, natural sound across various music genres. Complementing this is the Sonion E50 series, a dual ultra-tweeter balanced armature driver, extending high frequencies with unprecedented technical capabilities, offering clarity and brilliance. A custom 3-way crossover ensures each frequency band perfectly blends into the next for a smoothly coherent sound.
Advanced Technology for Superior Performance
Instead of using vibrating bone conductors or traditional PET drivers, we took a different approach, developing a custom-made 9.2mm dynamic driver featuring Liquid Silicon Rubber (LSR) technology. The LSR is capable of reproducing low frequencies that reach an impressive 10 Hz, compared to the standard 20 Hz of traditional PET drivers, contributing to a strong sub-bass rumble. After numerous stages of R&D, we optimized the size of the LSR to ensure a powerful kick without sacrificing speed in sound delivery. The magnesium-aluminium alloy diaphragm was chosen to deliver optimal performance for a prolonged period, resulting in remarkably fast, deep, and precise performance with minimal distortion.
Perfectly Consistent Performance
Consistency is one of our greatest focuses for PILGRIM. We go the extra mile to ensure impeccable consistency across every single unit. Using the latest cutting-edge technology, our master-crafted internal chambers and sound tubes undergo precision 3D printing, ensuring both structural integrity and quality while providing minimal signal distortion and accurate phase coherency. Each driver is carefully handpicked to ensure the utmost consistency and standards of performance. Moreover, stringent tests are conducted to ensure that every single driver is within a +/- 1 dB range.
Aesthetic Design Inspired by Nature
The PILGRIM IEM's design takes inspiration from the serene topography of knolls, with each subtle and purposeful tier mirroring the gentle, rolling hills.
Unparalleled Industrial Materials
PILGRIM's shell is crafted from high-quality aluminum, offering the benefit of lightweight durability, while the bores are made from 304 stainless steel known for its corrosion resistance. This combination ensures longevity and maintains the exceptional sound quality you expect.
Our Review
Customer Reviews
I am in this hobby for years and I think I have got the perfect stopping point.
Some of my previous mid fi iems include
Truthear Hexa
Etymotic ER2XR
Letshuoer S12
Kiwi Ears Quintet and many others.
BTW I consider the samsung galaxy bus 2 pro a audiophile grade mid fi IEM
My favorite among these are the Quintets followed by the Samsung buds and then the etys
The Quintets had a few flaws namely they can sometimes be sibilant with poorly recorded music, most of not so famous JPop artists and it has a recessed mid bass so kick drums and stuff were not that satisfying but in terms of detail retrieval, staging and imaging it was top notch.
The pilgrim fixes all the negatives and retains the positives of the Quintets.
My only issue with the pilgrim is that the chrome finish is chipping off within a few minutes otherwise I love them. Oh and it has a big fat nozzle 5.9 mm to be exact and so I had to tip roll quite a bit and settled on the Final E tips.
Now lets come to the sound qualities:
Bass : The bass is amongst the best I have heard till date. It has good physicality and the rumble and growl is just unreal. Bass details shines through and has a very natural feel to it. It is a sublime experience.
Vocals: To me personally it feels a bit recessed, but it is also quite natural and hardly gets sibilant or honky. Both male and female vocals sound natural and carry good weight to them. Its not enough to make you cry or pierce your soul. The Quintets and the galaxy buds are much more vocal forward than Pilgrim. But I find the pilgrim more natural and enjoyable.
Treble: They are bright but not harsh. For me this is the perfect amount of treble to bring out micro details and nuances in the treble without being too fatiguing or distracting. I miss the splash of the cymbals from the quintet sometimes but again they can border on the line of too bright sometimes
Soundstage: its good enough. Its above average and can sound open or boxy depending on the music that you are playing.
Imaging and separation: its great. You can hear every instrument and pinpoint then and every instrument feels really tactile. Like you can feel the instruments being plucked or hit or blown into. It feels surreal sometimes.
I played the mountains track by Hans Zimmer and every time the organs started playing I got goosebumps these are that good.
Everyone has their own music preferences and for me these are just perfect. In terms of details, resolution and dynamics, I personally don't think you can get anything better under 80k or 1L.
You have to get the fit right to enjoy these to the fullest so you have to tip roll a bit. For my case final E tips worked the best.
Thanks to the team for helping me out with my request. I thought that these will sell out like hot cakes and to think that my review will be the first here is unbelievable🥲
Thank you so much for your thorough and detailed review of our Elysian Acoustic Labs PILGRIM IEM. We are thrilled to hear that it has become your perfect IEM and that it fixes the flaws you found in your previous mid fi options. We apologize for the issue with the chrome finish, but we are glad that you found your perfect fit with the Final E tips. It's great to hear that the bass, vocals, treble, soundstage, and imaging meet your expectations and provide a natural and enjoyable listening experience. Thank you for choosing Elysian Acoustic Labs and The Audio Store,happy listening!
A) The chain
1. Apple music / Spotify from my phone to Earmen Colibri to Pilgrim.
2. Apple music / Spotify from my phone to Chord Mojo 2 to Pilgrim.
3. FLAC / AAC / 320 kbps MP3 / 128 kbps MP3 music from my computer to Chord Mojo to Pilgrim.
4. My DAP Onkyo DP X1 to Pilgrim (mostly FLAC / 320 kbps music files)
B) The music
1. Bollywood (from the 40s till date)
2. Malayalam songs (from the 60s till date)
3. Tamil songs (from late 80s till date)
4. Telugu songs (from the 2000s till date)
5. English (Mostly Soul, Jazz, Reggae, Motown, Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Pop from the 60s to the 000s, some specific artists from the current era like Adele, Billy Eilish, Norah Jones, Dua Lipa, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Llorde etc.)
6. Music and songs from anime movies and series.
7. Instrumentals.
All the hearing has been done with the stock Pilgrim cable and eartips (Spinfit CP 100s supplied with the IEM itself).
C) Pilgrim's strengths
1. Very good bass - Quality, not quantity. The bass is not as heavy as some of the IEMs like the Sennheiser IE600. The quality of the bass is really good, the bass notes have really good texture, mostly sub bass, but just enough mid bass also to lead good weight to instruments. Very controlled, zero bleed into the mids. The bass is present in enough quantity if the song demands it.
2. Mids - Very transparent with good note weight. Both the male and female vocals sound great without being overly thick or mushy. The timbre of the instruments in this range is really good.
3. Treble - Extended without being sibilant.
4. Technicalities - Very good detail retrieval, precise imaging and a good soundstage. Top class technicalities for this price.
D) To be noted
1. Break in (or burn in, if you prefer) is an absolute must. The IEM sounds really bright right out of the box, but the bass wakes up as it is played more and takes more of the stage as the usage increases. I had put in more than 100 hours of burn in before listening to the Pilgrim analytically.
2. Power: The Pilgrim can be played off most dongle DACs. My Earmen Colibri ran it without any issues. But it really scales with more power and sounded way more powerful and airier with the Mojo2.
3. Source: Goes without saying, the better the source the better Pilgrim plays.
E) Comfort: No issues for me. Very light.
F) The Gripe (a very small one)
It is really hard to load the stock eartips onto the Pilgrim. The nozzle of the Pilgrim is big. Spent more than 10 minutes wrestling the tips onto the nozzle.
G) Side Note: I personally do not mind a bit of treble as I am a bit of detail head and like analytical sets. So the Pilgrim's treble, it's resolution, details retrieval, soundstage and precise imaging was just great for me (better than my Sennheiser IE 600). But I can see some of our community having an issue with treble of the Pilgrim.
To make a long story short, I find myself reaching for the Pilgrim the most these days, out of my small IEM collection. I think that it punches way above its price point.
The purchase experience was fantastic. I had pinged Pritam on the availability of the Pilgrim before it was launched in TAS. He kept me updated throughout and shipped the Pilgrim immediately on arrival. Thanks a lot, Pritam.
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a detailed and comprehensive review of our Elysian Pilgrim IEM. We are glad to hear that you have had a positive experience with our product and that it has met your expectations in terms of bass quality, mids, treble and technicalities. We appreciate your feedback on the importance of break-in and the use of a powerful source to fully appreciate the capabilities of our IEM. We hope you continue to enjoy your listening experience with our product. Thank you for choosing Elysian Acoustic Labs & The Audio Store.
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It's an interesting product. I like all the tip options in this pack. It's a good beginner pack to know how each tip material can affect the sound quality. All the tip material & quality are good. The silicone tips & foam tips in the pack are good, like those stock tips we get with IEM. But the surprising tips are the latex tip & the hybrid foam tip. Although the latex tip feels a little rubbery in feel & is a dust magnet, but it's very comfortable, provides a good seal and does enhance bass & treble response slightly. And for the hybrid tip, it's like best of both worlds. It gives the comfort of a silicone tip as well as provides the seal of a foam tip. I'm not a big fan of foam tip in general because of how they feel in ear & it's very difficult to put them in the ear, but these hybrid tips removed all those problems for me.
This is one of the best modular cables I have ever seen in this price range. Microphonic is there as the nylon type of material is used for wrapping the cable. But microphonic is very minimal compared to other similar cable I have used. But, once the music starts playing, the microphonic would be gone. connector quality is very premium, on both the 3.5 / 4.4 termination as well as at 2-pin connector end. I love how easy is to replace the 3.5 & 4.4 end. It's highly recommended if you are looking for any premium modular cable on budget. It's one of my favorite modular cables along with the Moondrop aria 2's stock modular cable.
Sounds exactly like the Salnotes Zero with a bit more bass. Has that same Harman curve with upper midrange bump and reduced lower mids making male vocals sound thin. Good resolution/detail and treble is perfectly done. Fit is good and I like that these are very light.
I have own onix aplha as a dac and this is definitely a upgrade in that regards
From Blon bl2 to BGVP DN2
The jump on dunu was really worth it
Almost every genre songs this IEM drive at another level of dept n separation
Only flaw i could pin point some jpop heavy electric or high pinch voice of singers was little intolerable but other than it skillet and every other genre it nail it..
Accesories are another level really feel like worth the price and best customer care...
Tried every format from flac mqa to dsd . movies or series or anime . this earphone r all in one.
Bass timing silent timing Treble timing is all so perfectly tune (tried on LGV50)
If you are looking for a pair of headphones that would be your end game on a budget, then look no further, Edition XS is the way to go.
I have been using these for about 2 years and finally I can say, these cans a robust, dynamic and neutral to slightly bright.
But it also packs a punchy bass and has a good soundstage.
All you need is a pair of Edition XS and further you can keep leveling up the sound quality by upgrading cables to balanced ones, getting good DAC/AMPS and also modding the cans with new filters and grill.
Pros:
1. Sound is excellent for the price. I would say moondrop chu level sound quality. It follows the harman target with a little but turned down treble. Many people find the harman target a bit harsh at the top end. But this solves the issue.
2. I never had connectivity issues. Pairing was easy. As soon as I bring out the earbuds from the case, the buds automatically connects to my android phone.
Cons
1. App could be better. Obviously the app and other functionality won't be at the level of other mainstream tws like bose, samsung etc.
2. The fit. As someone who mostly uses wired iems. The tws does not feel as comfortable as the iems. For my ears, it's only comfortable for an hour or so. After that, it gets really uncomfortable.
I have been through some online videos/reviews before this purchase. My shortlist were, Moondrop Chu II, KZ Castor Pro, Wan'er SG. Audio Store was kind enough to provide demo of these to compare. Also Mr. Pritam shared valuable inputs on differences between my selected comparisons.
Very happy with the Tangzu Wan'er SG's output, everytime I listen to some of my old fav bolly songs it generates smile. Guess using it day by day increasing some sort of details or maybe I am getting use to. Best for listening for longer duration without fatigue. Bassheads may find it irrelevant to their taste. Over-all best Balanced tune IEM I must say which has some spark and doesn't feel boaring.
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Design and Build Quality
The Distant Mountain captivates with its retro-inspired design, reminiscent of the golden age of personal audio. The headband, crafted from solid stainless steel and adorned with genuine lambskin, ensures both durability and unparalleled comfort. The coaxial CNC-machined body exudes a high-gloss finish, presenting an extraordinary high-end texture that is both versatile and fashionable. 
Sound Performance
At the heart of the Distant Mountain lies an innovative 40mm composite topological diaphragm. This redesigned dome and corrugated ring deliver crisp, transparent treble and profound, surging bass. Enhanced by neodymium super magnets and an acoustic structure dedicated to small-sized headsets, the Distant Mountain presents richer sound details and a more natural treble extension, immersing the listener in melodious music. 
Comfort and Usability
The sponge ear pads are designed with both softness and breathability in mind, ensuring prolonged listening sessions remain comfortable. The headband supports fine length adjustments, with clearly visible scales to alleviate any concerns about symmetry. The inclusion of a stranded-free 5N single crystal copper IEM cable, coupled with a detachable MMCX design, offers high playability and customization for the user. 
Conclusion
The Roseselsa Distant Mountain is a testament to superb build quality and exceptional sound performance. Its unique tuning direction, reminiscent of high-fidelity in-ear monitors, combined with its luxurious design, makes it a standout choice for audiophiles seeking both style and substance. While it may require amplification to truly shine and could benefit from thicker earpads for optimal comfort, its value proposition remains compelling. For those who appreciate a blend of retro aesthetics and modern audio excellence, the Distant Mountain is an unrivaled choice. 
In the grand symphony of high-fidelity audio equipment, the Roseselsa Distant Mountain plays its notes , offering a professional and luxurious listening experience that is both nostalgic and forward-thinking.
I was not expecting much but this IEM sounds really good. If feels like a much more expensive IEM. The convenience thanks to the USB-C connection is great. I am able to use it on my phone, ipad and laptop. Gonna get some and gift some friends. This is a great gifting IEM / starter IEM !!!
I love the compatibility and the bill quality of the AUDIOCULAR d07, it works well with my samsung m53, . I also liked that u provide a case along with it , 😉
Good Sound Quality. Bass Treble Mid Too God Under 2k Price, Lookwise Good & Ear Fit & Gaming Experience To Good. & clear Sound Sense.
Earphone Case Too Good 👍 I like it.
Fast Delivery in 2 day delivery In My Address.
This is a solid technical iem with a very neutral tuning. Its a keeper iem for those who already have a collection of somewhat coluored or tasteful sounding iems under 10k .
Increased the volume as well as clarity of audio.
Thanks to the audio store for a quick delivery
This was my first experience with The Audiostore and it was welcoming. Happy with the service provided and customised suggestions as per need. Looking forward to buy next one. Thanks.
