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Originally Posted by TJ Max
Ok, I would like to share with all of you my "initial" thoughts of the Customs 3 after owning them for a full day.
They are smaller than the pictures indicate, the stem is longer than what the pictures indicate. These were good things to me.
With my first listen with them I used the medium eartips. I listened to an MP3 encoded at 256kbps, "Anderdon's Great Escape" from the Minority Report soundtrack composed by John Williams. I listened to it with the EQ turned off. The first thing I noticed was the bass. John Williams usually uses a "booming" bass drum at key moments for dramatic effect in his music. The Bass really stuck out here, I mean it was startling. It recreates a very powerful Boom. But It felt out of place and disconnected from the rest of the music, and was somewhat startling when it poped up. I really don't understand how people say the bass is'nt that strong with the Custom 3s.
Everything else sounded full and detailed but it lacked the highs I was looking for somewhat. I had heard the Custom 3s were bright, but they were'nt bright enough for me. So I switched to the small eartips. They were a little better, but I had trouble getting a good seal, so I switched back to the medium tips, and enabled the EQ and bumped up the 4-13Khz ranges.
Then the sound was more to my liking.
What I realize too is the the left ear tip, seems like it slides and shifts in my ear, I can get a good seal, but it seemed to come unsealed very easily. Sometimes the sound would go out completely because the eartip shifted and was pointed at a wall in my ear canal. And suggestions with that?
I've put on the largest ear tip, but I loose more of my highs with them.
I never had this type of ear tip problem with the Shure E4 tips, or the Ultimate Ears tips.
Anyway with some EQ'ing of the highs I think they sound decent, but the bass may be a little too much.
Anyway these are just my First Impressions, are always the least critical.
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I'm one of the people that had the exact opposite experience as you with the sound. I found them very thin sounding, brittle, and no bass. I tried everything I could think of, going through all the tips (the mediums provided the closest thing resembling a seal), and no luck in achieving any sort of reliable seal. If I physically sat there and held them in deeper than they'd stay on their own, I'd start to get somewhat good sound with a bit more bass, and some respectable treble detail. But at this point they were jammed in so far into my ear canal that it was almost painful, and way too deep for safety. I am chalking up my experience to my ear canal shape being not compatible with these earphones. I guess Klipsch didn't do enough research into all the types of shapes for people's ear canals. That's the only thing I can think of for the disparity in people's experiences with their C3's. They simply didn't work AT ALL for me, and they went back within a few days. Huge disappointment.