It's here!, it's here! The box is here! (One month waiting)
Tachan !!!
Oh, the box !
So there are:
I will try to write all my first out of the box impressions just while they are happening. Remember this is written in that uplifting state you know about...
Hybrid - Dogstar
Bass lines not as powerful as in the UM2 but I just inserted them and trying to find the correct way.
It's hard. I', using the triflanges.
Uhm.. not.
Oh, yes. Ah, the song finished!
Pet Shop Boys - After all
Delicate sound in all range. Amazing. Who said Etys had no bass?? Liquids highs as in the midrange.
Nicolay - We can fly (From The Trip II compilation Album)
Mother of God, where were this sounds hidden before???!!! A lot of new highs arrangements... simply amazing!
Y used to say UM2 had a fantastic detail but only in certain songs and with certain rig. WITH THIS ONES THERE ARE ALWAYS DETAIL!
They sound dryer than UM2, uhmm...
Melanie C - Reason
Piano layer has lots or harmonics !!! I've listened this tune hundreds of times and never noticed that..
Oh, had to remove them and now I can't find the position I had them before...
Ok, so they have to be released a bit after deep them... LOL, in the Shure was that way, I just forgot it, that wasn't needed with the UM2.
Wow, the voice of Melanie is so clear...
Paul Oakenfold - Hypnotised
Bad recording, amazing sound. Hearing new details !
Propaganda - Duel
Ok, I gonna change the tips to the black foam ones.
This eighties tunes sounds thinner and as they don have so much detail in its mix UM2 are better for that ones.
Foam tips doesn't have a 'trick point' to fit them, but doesn't sound as well. I can hear some sibilance and low richness.
Maybe I have small ear canals. I can΄t insert too much, I've send pictures where people had the ER4 deeper inserted than me.
Jordano - No gravity,
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (From BALANCE 010 compilation)
Wow, this is how electrohouse have to be listened.
Hybrid - True to form
For a multilayered and complex mixed tunes band as Hybrid is, the Etys are 'the phones'.
Jamiroquai - (Don't) Give hate a chance
It's a joy listening to the hi-hats and percussion festival this song has. Now I've disovered a couple of layers more.
The mids in this song are better resolved in the Shure E4...
Vector 13 - Isis (original Mix)
This is a trancy song that was my reference of sound with the Shure E3. Its combination of mid lows and mid was simply mesmerizing and I never hearded that again, even with the UM2, in which ones the song sounded bigger but fuzzier. In the Shure E4 sounded almost like in the E3.
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In the ER4P clear than in the Shures but lacks that 'who knows' in the midlow section and maybe to much highs.
Ok, 'Isis from Vector 13', the song made for the E3s... LOL
Weird mastering for sure.
Robbie Williams - Rudebox
This a very complex-sounding song. No problemo. You can pick almost each layer with your hand. This is detail, men. Is like listening in color.
Rest of Robbie Williams songs
Extremely detailed. Far better than with the UM2.
Agh, black foams are painful. Return to the triflanges. I'll try with a modded bi-flanges I have in home.
Removing the tips are very hard and difficult, too.
Madonna - Confessions album
Amazing. Highs have to be lowered a bit.
Conclusion of the firsts minutes:
Etymotic ER4-P are far better than UM2. As Etymotic people says, two drivers doesn't have to be better than one.
This Etys doesn't have the constant super bass extension of the Westones but they don't need it at all. The ER4P have perfect bass IMHO, very tight and extended.
About the midrange, it's always liquid and sweet. This never -ever- happened in the UM2, which midrange is veiled and fuzzy. But this ER4P midrange is not as perfect as the Shure E4 is.
About the highs, what can I say? Hands down and open mouth, or whatever it is said in English. The detail is always there. As I said before, UM2 sometimes had a fantastic detail, but not always, and some treeble boost was needed to.
The drawback of the Etys is the extreme difficulty of putting them correctly using the triflanges. (Compared with the UM2)
Someone will ask: Do you feel you wasted a year owning the UM2? Not at all. UM2 sound is powerful and amazing. For musicians and people on stage they are the perfect earphones. I am a sound technician not musician and that's why I like the Etys the most. Anyway, if I didn't had the UM2, I would be always wonder how will they sound and for sure I would be buying them anyway...
So my Etymotic ER4-P are here! (Review and UM2 and E4 comparation)
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