Introduction

Elysian Acoustic Labs is a Malaysia-based IEM brand founded in 2016 by one person—Lee Quan Min—who is widely regarded as one of the very best IEM designers and tuners in the world today. He started off with a simple IEM re-shelling service before putting this experience to good use in the identification and adaptation of drivers unlike anyone else at the time. Indeed, Elysian Acoustic Labs is arguably the first brand to properly use Sonion's electrostatic tweeter (EST) drivers in making the treble response of IEMs sound good and meaningfully different from other driver types, as opposed to simply piling on treble extension like there's no tomorrow. In 2024, the brand has grown, with more employees, yet prides itself on only releasing a few products every generation. There are a total of three Elysian-branded IEMs for sale today, for example, including the subject of today's review which only just launched. Thanks to HiFiGo for providing a review sample to TechPowerUp!


Elysian Acoustic Labs is not a budget IEM brand. In fact, it's least expensive entry as of a month ago was the Diva 2023, which retails for $1600. So when teasers started popping up for another IEM from the brand, especially knowing there have been at least two in the works now of which one is a proper flagship rumored to cost over $4000, no one was expecting the set to be as affordable as it ended up being. Indeed, the Elysian Acoustic Labs Pilgrim, which I will henceforth refer to simply as Elysian Pilgrim for convenience, costs significantly less than the Diva and has garnered plenty of attention since it launched a couple of weeks ago. It aims to bring out the Elysian house sound of strong bass and forward mids into a price range that has recently had a lot of excellent releases too. Let's put the Elysian Pilgrim through its paces in our review today, which begins with a look at the product specifications in the table below.

Specifications