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post #31 of 34
11/23/09 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by Illidan View Post
The IE8’s bass are a little bit overwhelmed at first but they get better controlled after a period of time, and I aint own the UM3x but heard them days before, my first impression is that they got a hyper-forward vocal presentation. Voted for Westone 3 personally.
how do u compare the ie8 bass with the w3,,, form memory i thought that the westone 3 had slightly more bass with the ie8 bass knob turned all the way down,,,,
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post #32 of 34
11/23/09 at 8:25pm
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Originally Posted by bixby View Post
I've owned the SE 530s, Denon 551 and Denon 751. The Shures kill the Denons. Not on bass quantity but on not having messed up mids or peaky highs. The Shures are the best balanced of the bunch, but cost a bunch.

Have not heard the Westone 3s but will at CanJam. the Shures do not have enough treble detail for me. I am not an analytical type but appreciate a bit more natural balance. Now if your recordings have hot treble as most CDs these days the Shures my be fine. But you listen to Porcupine Tree and system of a Down and they are not bad recordings.

Hope this helps, but remember it is only one persons opinion.
oh great so all denon iem's are way too bright?
do they eventually even out or are they always too bright,,,

i have the c710 and while it sound good and rich, the highs are way too forward and piercing my ears,, also they are generallly much louder than any other iem that i have causing me too adjust voil while comparing every other iem with them.......... i did prefer the c710 tioo the audio technica cks70 which i thought was totally lacking in the upper mids and lower and upper highs,,,,, leaving it with a muffled almost filtered sound..... the c710 was opposite at least in the trble and upper sections,,

will along burn in even out the highs for the c710, or how did this work with your other denon iem's? seems u know those well
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post #33 of 34
11/23/09 at 8:33pm
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Originally Posted by HONEYBOY View Post
I know that the IE8 may be described as having overwhelming and bloated bass by some folks around here. Out of the box I'd agree. Although to my ears it isn't as focused and controlled as the W3, I attribute that to the fact that it has more quantity to be controlled, if that makes sense. Maybe am a bass head but IE8 on minumum bass dial isn't overwhelming at all. In fact, from my experience its heavily dependent on the recording. So some folks need to start blaming the recording instead of blaming the phones that are being true to their job.


I have the IE8, had the Shure SE530 and the W3, all of which I know for certain have more "powerful" bass than the C700/751 which I still have. I've never heard the C551 but it was already confirmed in the C700 impressions thread by folks who had both earphones that the C551 exhibit more bass quantity than the C700. So being ignorant of your reference point(c551), I was thus "hesitant" to recommend the W3,SE530 and then the IE8 because I didn't know if their low end surpassed that of the C551. The UM3x which I auditioned a week ago seemed to have been the leanest of them all.

By the way Congrats on your purchase and hope the IE8's bring you as much joy as it does to me
glad too see you have all 3,, is old my w3 because they were to obright and i wanted even more bass, and i sold my ie8 but am reaquiring them with different tip options....... idi not own them at the same time but from memory the w3 had more bass than the ie8(with the knob turned down) but i did not have good fit with ie8 so i am trying them again, eergh,,, does anyone else do this..
have u tryed the c710? how long did your ie8 take to burn?
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post #34 of 34
11/23/09 at 10:01pm

My search is done for now

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Originally Posted by techenvy View Post
oh great so all denon iem's are way too bright?
do they eventually even out or are they always too bright,,,

i have the c710 and while it sound good and rich, the highs are way too forward and piercing my ears,, also they are generallly much louder than any other iem that i have causing me too adjust voil while comparing every other iem with them.......... i did prefer the c710 tioo the audio technica cks70 which i thought was totally lacking in the upper mids and lower and upper highs,,,,, leaving it with a muffled almost filtered sound..... the c710 was opposite at least in the trble and upper sections,,

will along burn in even out the highs for the c710, or how did this work with your other denon iem's? seems u know those well
FWI, I eventually ended up with the Westone UMX3 after lots more IEM owned after the Denons. The C751 highs really are too peaky and the bass is not so deep or defined, even after lots of burn in. You get,oh about 90% of the sound signature, after the first 50 hours or so with the Denons, IMHO.

The Westone UMX3 have a more forward mid than the Weston 3s and less bass and treble emphasis. Pretty darn good approximation of what my studio monitors do for about 15 times less price.

Hope this helps, but to each his own!
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