Unique Melody Remold Appreciation and Impressions Thread - Page 17

Your probably right...its wishful thinking and honestly a gentler way of saying I'm not too impressed with the sound, but I'm not making a judgment until I listen to it more.

Unless someone can correct me that reshelled earphones benefit from burn ins...

IANAL, but I'm not so sure that this going to always be the case. For one, drivers could get damaged being moved from one IEM to the next. Secondly given that the position of the driver is relative to not just the ear drum, but also to the exit of the sound bores the layout and distances surely would have changed due to the different environment within the custom shell. Both of these could have a negative effect on the sound signature.

With respect to the first point, I am sure UM take the time to test the drivers prior to, and after earpiece construction. Given the information on these forums, I'm sure the guys at UM know what they're doing. But with regards to the second point, I'm of the opinion that re-shelling universal IEMs is taking a bit of a gamble and that you're actual mileage may vary based on various factors such as age of driver, shape of custom shell relative to the generic shell, introduction of new components such as crossovers, or drivers from other earpieces, etc.

Not trying to incite a flame war here, just offering up some points for debate.

I've been thinking about it... were the images you posted here the exact size/resolution that you gave to UM? Because they are rather small and could be the reason for the poor quality.

I also took into consideration that the scale artwork they replaced wasn't single colored and would require a little effort on their part to remove unwanted portions of color to provide them with an appropriate image. Maybe they didn't think you would mind and just grabbed some of their own clip art. Not saying I approve of what they've done. Frankly, I'm still horrified! I can't believe the discoloration wasn't corrected either.

The images I'm using for my shells, I actually "mastered" myself, giving them an image more than large enough to provide every detail (1,000 x 1,000 pixels), using only one color. The image should require no adjusting on their part and is ready for use. I'm hoping it looks as nice as I picture in my mind, but your images worry me.

Like i said before, providing large images with extra detail isn't gonna help u at all. They would probably be unable to do the picture exactly as u wanted and would scale down on the details.

Importantly, did you run your images by Sam before deciding on that artwork? If he said it was fine then I wouldn't worry too much.

The images I sent were of a higher resolution...I just found no reason to post a blown up picture of artwork on this forum. However, even if there was a problem with the images I submitted, I should have been notified that there was a problem with them and that I needed to submit another or change my design.

@maodi/everyone else: These are my first customs. I'm coming from full sized headphones down to IEMs because most of my time now is spent in the library studying.

I suspected that because these were my first pair of customs, there was a chance that I was not properly fitting them inside my ear. I saw the audiologist today who did my impressions and he verified that I have been properly fitting the customs in my ear, and that the seal was good. He was interested in the customs I got...he is a licensed westone supplier and usually does earmolds for westones line of products. He was impressed with the quality of the shell and the price I spent to reshell.

Anyways more on the sound later. I'm still listening to a lot of music, and one thing that may have skewed my initial impressions was that the month of waiting for my IEMs I was listening mostly to my HD650s.

I just bought some used UE10Pro on the cheap that I'll need to get remolded (while waiting to gather the money for the JH13Pro). I guess UM is the best bet. I've been told by someone at UM that they are able to tune the IEM to match the sound signature of the originals and that they could provide the graphics to prove it. Pretty interesting!

From what i've seen here, I won't ask for custom artwork as it dosen't look good at all... I will be getting and sending my impressions this week providing, of course that I get to place my order with Sam.

I'll keep you guys posted!

I am planning to get the Mages. . I don't have any artwork in my mind yet, just put my name. Or simple chinese caligraphy of the word ear ( 耳 ) or sound ( 音 ) , or mmm... 'the head-fi' logo, just to show how much I love head-fi ..... Wondering if head-fi allow us to do that ?

Back when I was contemplating artwork I thought something like (楽園) or simply (天) would be good =]

(天) : Heaven, sky ... Good!! Thanks for the idea ...
Or just this smiley that I always use ->

quick question: what's the fastest way to contact unique melody? I've sent them an e-mail for my SF5Pro remolds 2 days back and haven't heard from them. Thanks

haha that gave me an idea 天 and 地 (land) one for each ear

Just sent my SE530 to UM to get remolded. Will post results when I get them back...in purple (what was I thinking....?)
I must say, their communication has been really great, they even sent me a reminder e-mail to let them know when I actually send them (it took me 2 weeks to get new impressions). Used the standard UM email...