AFAIK, ljokerl compared them...

For bass lovers, worth it. I don't like paying vat either, but wooduo's are special.

Three words: Hisound Wooduo 2. If you don't believe me, ask ljokerl on his epic thread. I don't think anything under 200$ compares with them, bass-wise.

Why not try Hisound Audio Wooduo 2? Very deep and controlled bass, sweet mids and treble.I have them, as well as gr07, and they have oodles of bass more then gr. ljokerl loves them, too.

  glamorous rock opera, just melts your brain with pleasure.

I fell in love when I heard the first chords of the first song:     ..as one Rolling Stone reviewer put it: "what rock & roll would have sounded like had it been invented in the 1930s Dust Bowl." Absolutely gorgeous minimalistic album with guitar, banjo and vocals, disturbing and...

I am from Croatia, and I promise to review PAA-1 on headfi and other local forums. I sent you email.

Hello,   I am from Croatia, and I promise to review PAA-1PRO and E-212 and post it to croatian audio forums, as well as the bigest online community at forum.hr Sent you email, too.

For me, Stratosfear is still my all time favorite from Tangerine Dream. Their early works are all pretty awesome, though...all the way to Pergamon (1980). After that, they went into soapy new agey stuff that I can+t be bothered to like. For those who like Pergamon, I also suggest Phaedra...

Definitely no sibilance with them-if anything, they can sound a bit veiled in treble, depending on tips used, of course. Very easy going and smooth, perfect for long listening sessions on planes etc...

We should organize a group buy ;) .....and of course, beer for the kind Australian soul who would be willing to accept our money.

This is an awesome deal! I wonder if there is a good headfi soul who would be kind enough to ship one to europe....

Thanks :D Awesome value/price ratio :D

Icelandic band called Andrum - afaik, they have one album out ("Andvakar") and they sound to me exactly like Pink Floyd would if they ever went to Iceland instead of Pompeii.   Another icelandic band - Sigur Ros. For starters try their Agaetis Byrjun. beyond awesome, and again, reminds me of...

Quote:   ..since I also have X10, yes, VC02 can isolate almost as much. I say almost, because they sound like crap with triple flange (this is just me, can't say for other people in general). With normal tips (double flange and small normal single flange) they still isolate very well -...

I have both RE0 and RE-ZERO, and they are pretty good for/with classical and baroque music, but in the end, most of the time I end up using HiSound Wooduo 2. They have very sweet and pleasant treble, not too recessed mids, and absolutely wonderful bass extension - perfectly controlled and very...

Quote:   Well, the point is that newphones was talking about applepods as if they were in some measurable objective way better sonically then various other IEMs. Since you can't really do blind test with them vs others, how can you claim that they sound better, other then completely...

Quote: eh? I must admit that I don't understand you  The idea of blind test is that tester doesn't know what piece of equipment he is testing. Since we are talking about SQ of earpods (ie, buds) vs IEMs, person who tests *always* knows that he is testing buds (ie, apple pods). So, no true...

..and I am thinking, how *would* one do a blind test with apple's earpods, since practically all other IEMs are..well, IEMs and not earbuds. 

Quote:   Hmmm...maybe I should point you in the direction of LessWrong community?

..for true bass experience I use HiSound Wooduo 2, which are very nice, once you get proper fit. They have amazingly huge amounts of precise deep bass and work great with dubstep and rock (never tried them for hip hop since I don't listen to that genre). Their mids are not too recessed and their...

..from my perspective, apple earpods are complete piece of c**p, simply because I can't get a good fit fit them. If they were given away for free, i wouldn't take them. Now, because I am a semi-grown up person, I don' mistake lousy fit with lousy sound quality, so I don't go around saying that...

..you should also note that joker likes his iems trebly and sparkly :D kinda opposite of what the original poster presumably wants for his genres of choice. I had both Monoprices and S4, and S4 is IMO far better for rock, trance, psychedelic and hip hop. Monoprice is (IMO) better at...