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Managed to finish a build for a fellow friend. Was paused for a quite sometime because too busy with the day job.

This one is custom 2meter self-braided cable. Cable this long surely takes time to finish it but the satisfaction when its done simply put a smile on the face.

Anyone wants to order? 🤭

Hi guysssss.

How is everyone? Hope that you guys is i good health.

I would to apologize for the silence from my side. After Raya, I was called back to office and since now getting back to office and it was lot of works last 2 months.

Few people PMed me and I am so sorry was not able to reply accordingly. Will reply all your PM soon.

So, Im getting the mood back with BuduBuds. Need to kick start again so that the mood and motivation comes to me again lol.

Im anticipating that I will open the order by next week so stay tuned guysss.

Sorry again for the so-called silence mode lol 🤣

A custom BuduBuds V1 with 2 meter self braided cable with custom 3.5mm jack will be posted today to the buyer.

Is it good looking? Luckily the buyer is okay with the plug since it is red in color because we bought only the red color one before this.

Hope he will be satisfied with our product.

Regards.
BuduBuds

Some photos from the previous preorder. Although slight delay from our side, we are glad that we managed to complete all orders for BuduBuds V1.

Glad that we received good reviews from our buyers. We will always try to make sure that our product well received buy our supporters.

Thank you for all your kind support guys!

Hi peeps.

Its been a while since our last post. We hope we are not that late to wish to all of our muslim followers Ramadhan Mubarak. May all of our good deeds is accepted by Allah and hope this Ramadhan will be a better Ramadhan for all of us.

With the covid cases still high in Malaysia, we hope that everyone will take care and stay safe. After covid effect may take a long time to really disappear. Hopefully all of you will always stays negative.

Regards,
BuduBuds Owner.

Dear buyers for second batch preorder, I would like to inform that I am currently positive with covid 19. Please do expect some delay on the delivery for BuduBuds V1. Appreciate your understanding on the situation. ❤️

Got a request from our dear friend to make him the 4.4 balanced version. So here it is peeps but yeah still work in progress 🤣. Still the same neutral bright tone but with custom cable and 4.4 termination.

Glad to fulfill this request. Surely in future if you guys want to custom/tailor made to your preference, we are here for you guys. 🎉

UPDATE 6 MARCH PREORDER CLOSED.

Thank you to all the buyers!

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March preorder is open.

Hi everyone. We are opening the next preorder for our V1. If you are interested to buy please do PM our page.

Price is RM70+5 for postage all through Malaysia.

Do PM us if you have inquiries.

Thank you.

We would like to share our gratitude to AudioMonsta for the honest review of BuduBuds V1.

After having good reviews from fellow headfi-ers, we will strive for good qualitiy control. Thank you again for all the good reviews.

You can read the review here: https://audiomonsta.com/budubuds-v1-a-local-delight/

BuduBuds V1 - A Local Delight - AudioMonsta Introduction It is no secret that we are a Malaysian based group and we are a proud nation…

Appreciation to BuduBuds supporters!

We would like to convey our sincerest gratitude to all of our supporters. We have receive good and positive feedbacks. Even some says that BuduBuds V1 is their end game. Hopefully when another BuduBuds product comes out, it will be their next end game 🤣

Here is some pictures compilation taken by our supporters. To those who wish to buy, we are going to open next preorder by this weekend.

Stay tuned guys!

BuduBuds V1 4.4 BAL

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So last night managed to finish our first V1 prototype for 4.4 balance. Yeayy 🎉🎉

Downside is the cable only 20cm short. Kinda LOLed since got the wrong cable length but hey its just prototype haha. Tested with Zen Dac for a short impression and kind of the treble was boosted a little. Maybe something that treble head would love.

Stay tuned for our products. More to come!

Sidenote: will finish postage the remaining of our first preorder by today. I shall open new preorder for V1 next week most probably.

A full review after 100++ hours or burn in by our fellow headfi Dani Irwan

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BuduBuds v1: The homemade kick

My impressions of the Budubuds v1 prototype by Din:

Audio signal chain: 16/44.1 FLAC on Foobar2k/Apple Music on Cider for Win10 - Zen DAC v1 - Budubuds v1 prototype (has been burned in for >100 hours)

Test track: Cold, Cold Heart (Live) by Norah Jones
Excellent timbre for strings, slightly less so for piano.
Hi hats sound correct with good decay & sufficient airiness.
Lively, vibrant & upfront presentation of vocals & music. It feels like the singer is with you in the room and you're sitting upfront and centre.
Likewise, good for female vocals.
Very good soundstage too, immersive. This is almost a given for most earbuds, but not all. In any case, the Budubuds v1 excels here.

Test track: Pamit by Tulus
Good for male vocals as well. Same lively & vibrant presentation. In this manner, the Budubuds v1 is similar to my much much more expensive Blur PK32 266 (New Line).
Strings sound really great here, as does the piano.
Treble seems to be well extended and yet smooth with no perceivable peakiness, harshness nor sibilance. This may or may not have to do with the burn-in period.

Test track: Heavenly Day by Patty Griffin
Female vocals as mentioned before are great and sweet, lush-sounding. Very forward..perhaps even too forward at times (but still coherent). I like this kind of sound tho, it might or might not be your cup of tea.
Instruments sound to be well-separated with good imaging.
Details are good-to-great but if I'm nitpicking, it is not comparable to the detail levels afforded by Etys. This is, of course, to be expected and par for the course for earbuds.

Test track: Radioactive by Anna Lunoe
Bass is fast and tight with good thump.
Doesn't appear to bleed into the mids much if at all.
Good bass extension, this might even please some bassheads. But it still can't beat the Smabat M2S Pro in this department.

Test track: Limit to Your Love by James Blake
Likewise, here bass is very responsive with great speed. No hints of flabby/loose bass at all.I can certainly say that the bass on the Budubuds v1 is way above par compared to some of the other (and in some cases, way more expensive) earbuds that I have.

Test track: Street Spirit by Power-Haus feat Eivor Palsdottir
Good female vocals from Eivor. Everything else in the mix are coherent and well-represented.
Test track: Orpheus by Sara Bareilles (Live from the Hollywood Bowl)
Soundstage, imaging, separation & vocals...all these gets an A from me here.
Overall sound signature: Neutral-to-bright sounding set. Balanced with no overpowering emphasis across frequencies. Most earbuds lean to being more warm-or even dark-sounding, so the Budubuds v1 is a standout in this regard.

Driveability: Very easy to drive. I was never at more than 9 o'clock on the volume pot of my Zen DAC v1 (power match & truebass off).

Ok, time to wrap things up. I'll abstain from giving a numerical score as they can be quite arbitrary, imho. What I can certainly say is that the Budubuds v1 gets a very hearty recommendation from me, especially if you consider the price and that it's locally made & tuned by the maker. For a first foray, Din has done a fantastic job. I say this with conviction: for someone just getting into earbuds, the Budubuds v1 could be all you need until you're ready to step up into TOTL-land (with the accompanying deep pockets 😛); even for seasoned earbuds veterans, I believe the Budubuds v1 still has the potential to surprise you with it's excellent capabilities and technicalities. It might just be the something different that you're looking for.

I've tried to be honest here and have chosen my words with care. However, as we all hear differently, here comes the usual caveat of batuan anda mungkin berlainan (YMMV).

But really, all I can say is this: Go ahead, give Budubuds a try. For the asking price, it's a no-brainer. And btw...to the uninitiated, welcome to the rabbit hole.

So, it seems that BuduBuds tonality similar with Grado. Dont compare technicalities but the tone is somewhat very similar to our ears.

So now, do we need to purchase one for us? 🤣

BuduBuds V1. What do you get.

- Premium Box with BuduBuds stickers
- Case
- 3 additional foams

And of course V1 itself.

Thanks to all of our buyers and supporters for making this to happen.

Sidenote: please ignore the stickers aligment ya 🤣😝

Yay or nay? Experimenting which packaging should be the best.

Please give us chance because we are not that creative. Hey, its our first step right 😆

Sound Signature.

Once we go down deeper in this rabbit hole, we will have better understanding of what is a sound signature. Generally speaking, all gears or transducers if you may call have different sound signature. These sound signatures can be group into a few big groups, if I may use the term here. So what are the usual sound signature group that we usually encounter.

1. V shaped
- the most famous soung sig.

2. U shaped
- Similar to V shape but not so recessed mids compare to V shape.

3. W shaped
- In my own words, W shape is similar with V shape but with sub bass and upper treble having early roll off. hence the W shape.

4. Flat
- No boost in any region of sound frequency

5. Balanced
- Has some boosted in several parts but those boosted region never really outshines others, thus balanced across the frequency

6. Warm Balanced
- A balanced but having boosted a little bit more on the bass region

7. Balanced Bright
- A balanced but having boosted a little bit on the treble region

8. Neutral Bright
- Bass and mids not boosted (or flat) but a lil bit boost at the treble region

9. Warm Neutral
- Treble and mids not boosted (or flat) but a lil bit boost at the bass region

Well we think that will be enough for now. So which one is your favorite?

Got advice from one of the person that encourage us to really do and focus on BuduBuds. His advice is to start properly so that BuduBuds can grow well.

So here we are having our logo as stickers. To all of customers, stay tune. We try to give a 'premium' feeling even it is a budget earbuds. Stay tuned and thanks for all the support!

While waiting materials for our first preorder to arrive, we have been experimenting the tuning for our product. Since V1 is more on neutral bright making it best for female voices and electric guitars, at least for the treble head so we are trying to add warmth to it.

Got the warmth but maybe too warm and got some bleeding to the mids. Need to play around more to get the best results.

If we achieve it, we will sure make it available for ordering.

Hi everyone.

First of all, thank you for all the new followers! We really appreciate all the support given to us.

As for now, we have closed the preorder for Batch 1 and will open again on March after we settled all batch 1 orders.

Any takers for March preorders? Do PM us for order bookings.

A review from our fellow head-fier Muhamad Syazwan Faid

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Budubuds by Din

Tested with Ovidius B1

Sound Signature
Neutral Bright, with bass boost.

Soundstage

360 Degree Soundstage, superb positioning, each has their position around the 270 degree of soundstage, with the cheers or sorakan located at the back. some instrument locate at front, and some at the back. The soundstage is not as wide as Asura 2.0, but as wide as LBBs, so a typical earbuds soundstage size. In a drum centric song, you can image the drum being separated all across the soundstage, cymbal at the left, tom toms at the front, hi hat at the regent, stand tom at the middle right.

Instrument

Details but musical. Neutral tilted to bright. Due to its signature, some of the instrument has less bass impact and has less warmth to its. Percussion has is impact, guitar has its satisfying pluck, but not as good as Asura 2.0. In a live song, a feel a bit crowded, and cheers, boo cause a bit shout to the listening experience. In a violin intense orchestra, the bright is prominent.

Vocal

Tilted towards bright. Male husky vocal is not appeared has the Budubuds brightness swallow the husky timbre, Male voice ex*****on is not as flawless as LBBs. Deep female vocal, like Billie Ellish, sound phenomenal in Budubuds. Budubuds also has a good imaging of the vocal. Some song main vocal located to middle right, some song main vocal is located at the middle left. while back up vocal is left and right. Harmony vocal is located all 180 degree of soundstage.

Pairing
Warm source with spatial imaging. Budubuds need clean and warm source to shine, Using 3.5 jack from laptop or phone, it become muddy and warm.

Comparison

LBBs
LBBs Pro : LBBs has more natural timbre, and easy to be driven at any given source.
LBBs Con: LBBs is too midcentric and is less technical than Budubuds

Asura 2.0
Asura 2.0 Pro : Thick Vocal and huge soundstage. Deep impactful bass, and thick timbre.
Asura 2.0 con: Hard to drive and too thick for some

Monk SM
Monk SM Pro : Easy to drive to make it sound beautiful
Monk SM Con : With a correct source, Budubuds is way better than Monk SM

Verdict
The existence of Budubuds makes me wonder how overprice all other customs earbuds really is. Hats off the our main man, Din for making such an outstanding product

Our first product in the market.

BuduBuds V1

32ohm
100++ sensitivity
Neutral bright sound sig
3.5mm termination

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