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post #256 of 2095
12/4/08 at 3:50am
screw you guys!

i just bought westone 3's, bit the bullet - $407usd ($647aud) frmo FreqCity!

Head-Fi and Westone have claimed another victim!
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post #257 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:05am
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Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance View Post
screw you guys!

i just bought westone 3's, bit the bullet - $407usd ($647aud) frmo FreqCity!

Head-Fi and Westone have claimed another victim!
Financial recession? Never happened...
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post #258 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance View Post
screw you guys!

i just bought westone 3's, bit the bullet - $407usd ($647aud) frmo FreqCity!

Head-Fi and Westone have claimed another victim!
Don't blame Head-Fi. Blame yourself for being too curious
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post #259 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:28am
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Originally Posted by ZephyrSapphire View Post
Don't blame Head-Fi. Blame yourself for being too curious
We need to figure out a way to get you some custom tips. Take up a collection or something...
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post #260 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:38am
lol HPA, well gonna have to save up for custom tips!

I usually have good luck with Shure Olives and I have some lying around, so hoping they'd do me good.

Well its going to be a looooooooong week of waiting!

Zephyr, how long from ship date till you were listening to them (I got mine express from FreqCity aswell). Did you get tracking info etc?
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post #261 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:45am
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Here is how well they tuck into the ear with Westome UM-56 custom sleeves. The clear thing sticking out is the handle to remove the tip should the earphone become disconnected from the custom tip:
The lear thing sticking out is self constructed? or did it belong to the standard things coming with the w3?
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post #262 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:46am
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Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance View Post
lol HPA, well gonna have to save up for custom tips!

I usually have good luck with Shure Olives and I have some lying around, so hoping they'd do me good.

Well its going to be a looooooooong week of waiting!

Zephyr, how long from ship date till you were listening to them (I got mine express from FreqCity aswell). Did you get tracking info etc?
Yep I got tracking. They got shipped last Friday (Australian Saturday) and arrived yesterday morning. 4 days. Very fast shipping but yeah, I'm in Sydney where all international flights land to begin with

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We need to figure out a way to get you some custom tips. Take up a collection or something...
One day. One sweet day. But just not now. Saving up for a nice new Hamer electric guitar atm. I've spent too much money and time on this audiophile hobby for this year. Time to concentrate on my other music hobby.
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post #263 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:50am
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The lear thing sticking out is self constructed? or did it belong to the standard things coming with the w3?
Did you miss the part in the post you quoted right above the photos, where I wrote the following?

"Here is how well they tuck into the ear with Westome UM-56 custom sleeves. The clear thing sticking out is the handle to remove the tip should the earphone become disconnected from the custom tip:"

The UM-56 are obviously a separate custom molded sleeve or tip, that I have been talking about for days, and I said the clear thing is part of the tip.
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post #264 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:51am
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Hey guys, look at the photos and tell me why does my wife say my forehead has a "primordial shelf"? What is a primordial whatchamacallit anyways? Does this mean I can do Geiko commercials without any makeup? Cool!
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post #265 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:58am
So, can anybody say that it's 100% worth it to sell Triple.fi to get Westone 3??

If doing that means living on stock earbuds for some month of wait?

I mean is this Westone 3 really totally better than Triple.fi?

Or is it just another variation of triple-driver headphones, somewhat better, somewhat worse?
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post #266 of 2095
12/4/08 at 4:59am
nm
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post #267 of 2095
12/4/08 at 5:02am
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Originally Posted by ZzBOG View Post
So, can anybody say that it's 100% worth it to sell Triple.fi to get Westone 3??

If doing that means living on stock earbuds for some month of wait?

I mean is this Westone 3 really totally better than Triple.fi?

Or is it just another variation of triple-driver headphones, somewhat better, somewhat worse?
Although I do not have a direct comparison with the Triple.fi's. I did compare the triple.fi's with my ER4S and compared my ER4S with the Westone 3's. Definitely worth it.
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post #268 of 2095
12/4/08 at 5:37am
well looks like its up to me to do a:

Westone vs. TF10, LiveWires, Klipsch X10 and SA6!
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post #269 of 2095
12/4/08 at 5:41am
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Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance View Post
well looks like its up to me to do a:

Westone vs. TF10, LiveWires, Klipsch X10 and SA6!
Add the Shure SE530/E500 and the Sennheiser IE8 to the mix, because some people are saying they prefer them over the Westone 3:

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f103/i...ne-3-a-387555/
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post #270 of 2095
12/4/08 at 6:03am
Unfort I do not have SE530 or IE8 (if I did, I'd own all the flagship IEMs!)
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