fantastic!   the white rubber insulation on my wires eventually disintegrated. glad to hear there are still some phones out there still working.

Had an adventure with tips a few years back as a DIY project. Learned a lot in the process.   http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/169789/homemade-foam-ear-tips-for-iems   Can simply go to the earphone store (superstore?) and order a variety pack. Stick the nozzle tube in your current...

That's interesting. When I was trying to get more bass out of modded iM716s the flange tips  were more bass-lite than the foam overall- and then even the composition of the foam (urethane, PVC and even memory foam) varied the sound. I basically built a number DIY foam tips from foam ear plugs...

Quote: Yes, the 'offense' was due to a lack of 'science' offered, just a you're wrong without explanation, as I tried to explain. So I very much appreciate your now bringing up some of the science. And yes, please, let's bury this and move forward.   Again, thank you for sharing this...

This is an open forum. Having access to the "science", then this is the place to share it. Education would help all of us to separate the facts from the advertising, and would have added substantially to this thread. That would have been "politely pointing out a general technical error" and open...

^^^Again, I disagree.   Firstly, my findings of extensive testing and making of tips, attempting to increase bass in the iM716, and here the tips sent by the kind people of MEElec prominently effected the low freq, not the other way around. I think you will find most people here that have...

    ^^^ I disagree.       Seal can be equally good with different tips, yet many, myself included, can hear differences even in the composition of foam tips. Donut tips and flange tips even more so.   I fail to see how simple pistonic movement is able to address these...

Quote: Thank you, I do appreciate the clarification.    But I don't understand, why can't the boundry effect work? Just because the wavelength is feet long should not exclude its reflection off a solid object that is less the distance than the size of the wavelength. The closer the...

Quote: well then, so much for 'goodvibes'

Quote:   I'll have to check when I get home but the grey tips Painful Chafe is speaking of are for the M9 and I believe are bi-flanges. I have the clear M6 and the tips match the original tips in color, but seem to be larger tri-flanges, if I remember correctly.   Quote: To...

Quote: Funny, I took mine mountain biking. Have a small external pocket that wraps around the strap of my Camelbak. Took everything out of the Camelbak and threw it in the washing machine. Only problem, forgot about the strap pouch and the iPod Touch.   So my Touch went through the...

Quote: Yup, those are exactly the tips I got too for the M9 that made the difference. They also have some tri-flanges for the M6 that do the same.   The new M9 is no longer the same driver as the M6. The M9 also appears ported (bass reflex). Although ported speakers seemed to require...

I agree goodvibes, deeper, less air = better coupling. Which is why the highs don't get drowned out.   I used to design speakers and a small woofer in a small room coupled well and the system could sound balanced, but placed in a larger room couldn't move enough air and the bass would sound...

iPods are the McDonalds of audio.   That's not to say the other DAPs are so much, if any better, so this pissing duel is kinda funny.   There is a reason that good single ended amps can weigh in as backbreaking monsters that can keep your room warm on those cool nights. But for portable...

  I won't go into a review of either of these phones, or post pictures, as that has all been done before, and I'm just too lazy a sod to bother. Instead I though it important for people to realize the potential of these phones, their chameleon nature, just by swapping tips. So I decided to...

nice review rawster.   I too am a confessed treble head. The (musical) truth is in the details, and he magic in the mids. I think a good number of portable phones are balanced to the low end. When iPods and competing DAPs hit the scene their bass was, at best, anemic. Many phones were built...

Quote: Thank you for the rapid and informative reply Joker.   To say the new M9 is 'refined' (albeit less so than the M6) is an understatement. It is too refined. It is so rolled off that my original Apple ear-buds sound more open and airy.    I'm disappointed Meelec decided to...

Joker, do you remember where you heard about different drivers for the newly wired models of the M9?   As for the tape on the port- minor effect, but noticeable. I don't see why this would increase congestion, unless the bass was simply masking it.   I've run these through a few hour...

Quote: Hi,   Couldn't get through all the pages in this review, so please excuse me if this was already covered.   I would think a major difference between the M9 and M6 is the housing. I don't see where the M6 is ported, but the M9 certainly is. It's like a ported (bass reflex)...

Thank you Leon! I'm moving to 47 Ohms too. If I remember, my wires are pretty frayed from all the previous resistor switching I did. Hope there's enough there for another swap. Good luck with your swap. Cheers, J

Been away from this site for some time. My Creative Zen self terminated so I bought an iPod nano. Sound was far from rich, but overly detailed and bass shy with the modded im716s at 68 Ohms so went back through this thread to see what resistor values were used. The value of resistor sets used...

Quote: Originally Posted by HeadphoneAddict I can now choose between 22ohm, 33ohm, 47ohm, 55ohm, 69ohm, 80ohm, and 102ohm, depending on the combination of the 3 switches that are thrown. Here are the photos he took for me! Sweeeeetttttt!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by AnGeLiCbOrIs I'm using mine for the first time now. They are amazing for the money and definitely worth the $50. I prefer the er4p since the treble is more pristine but the im716 seems to have a wider soundstage. More later! Try these, they might...

NOTE: The above links to the Head-Fi threads in the leading post have changed!!! Please just use the search function for "homemade foam ear tips" or "podectomy" to find the appropriate threads. Enjoy, jS

I would agree with EFN in his analysis, especially as I found the iM716 to sound much better with 68 Ohm, or even 47 Ohm resisters. Lower values tended to add bass at the expense of HF extension, as noted by EFN in this concise review. Nicely done. I think higher resistance values would also...