Obscured Tunes: Wear Your Wounds – Rust on the Gates of Heaven

A supposedly solo act by Jacob Bannon, singer/founder for Converge, Wear Your Wounds released its debut album WYW in April 2017. Initially it was meant to be a side project for Bannon, only to find itself producing another album hence the one in review today, Rust on the Gates of Heaven. Musicality borders between Post-Rock …

OBSCURED TUNES: Misty Boyce – Get Lost (2018)

Welcome to the first episode of Obscured Tunes! As Bus Ride Impression grows, we thought of diversifying the website by adding a segment that tackles one of the most important aspects of the audio hobby, if not the most important, reviewing the music we play with our audio setup. However, as the column's name suggest, …

BUS RIDE IMPRESSION: Pai Audio DR2

We are now on the concluding review of the 3-part Pai Audio series, and today we are tackling the DR2. I think Pai Audio was onto something when they decided to send these three items, wherein each seems to sport a different signature. Perhaps to extol on their versatility to work on different sound variance, …

BUS RIDE IMPRESSION: Pai Audio DM1

Hello, hello again! Threading through the Pai Audio review series, I am quite excited to review this particular model. The DM1 seems to carry a different design albeit same over the ear form factor similar to a lot of IEMs in the market today, however, I already am pleased to try this one out given …

BUS RIDE IMPRESSION: Pai Audio PR1

Well hello there! Things has been quite tight lately and it has been a while since I wrote something. Truth is, I kind of drove myself off the wall too much that I missed writing for some time. Any how, as I managed to scrounge some time to do some write-up, I think it will …

NOVICE VIEWPOINT : UFOEAR UFO- 112

We’re back! Things has been pretty busy lately for the entire BRI staff but here we are back! To start off, we’ve got the UFO-112! Thanks mostly to UFOEAR for providing us this alien looking piece of beauty. But first let me give you a bit of a background about the brand. UFOEAR (http://www.ufoear.com/pd) a Chinese …

BUS RIDE IMPRESSION: Xduoo X3ii

With the holidays dawning over, it is quite hard to catch up with the reviews especially with so many things going on these days. Thankfully, while the staff's hands are full, we still manage to scrounge time to squeeze in a review or two from time to time to keep up. Thankfully too, we got …

That bEARded Library Guy: Shozy Pentacle

Shozy was initially known to be such incredible designer of digital audio players and for some time, they have had quite a success with their works, with the Alien being the most popular among their works. No wonder there, they seem to have a knack on how to properly tune their DAPs. For a few …

Northern Audio Experience: Linsoul BLD 150 ohms (Balanced) – An All Rounder Worth Keeping

Introduction While still hot on my last "back to the future" earbud experience, the "chief" sent me a package containing a black clam-shell case. As I peeked inside the contents of the case and lo behold a Yuin shelled earbud with balanced cable greeted me. While I am not a fan of judging by appearance, …

That bEARded Library Guy: Flare Audio Jet 2

Hello! Today's is the continuation of the Flare Audio series and I am going to take up on Jet 2, which supposedly carries a better tuning compared to Jet 1 as per the claim on the Flare Audio website. I am not sure though what Flare Audio meant when they said so on the website, …