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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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Your first impressions coincide with my first impressions pretty closely. They were definitely not bright sounding, but they were brighter than the Shure E500PTH and Future Sonics Atrio m5 that I tried before. The bass is definitely pretty strong (about as strong as the E500PTH as I remember it) and prevalent.
I did not keep them because it was not the sound signature that I was looking for, though it surprised me how many other people had fit problems and experienced little bass.
I am one of the few fortunate ones that found that I could get a seal using any of the tips quite easily and painlessly. I was not a huge fan of the thick memory cable, however.
I haven't run into an IEM that I wasn't able to attain a good seal and keep it yet. It's probably because I have smaller ear canals or perhaps the shape of my ear canals is perfect for IEMs.
