Multi-IEM review v.1: 48 earphones compared - Page 9

Love this thread. Thanks for the hard work!

Any chance of getting the Etymotic HF5 IEMs in the mix?

First of all, thanks for this, invaluable list. I might yet add some MEs to my arsenal

I would like to question the microphonics rating of the RE0. While it is undoubtedly orders of magnitude better than the also listed RE2 (which is nigh unusable due to microphonics and besides, I don't like the sound at all), I most certainly disagree that is anywhere near as good as the NE-7M with whom I experience close to no microphonics (the Crossroads Bijou might be slightly better, but not by much) something I cannot claim to be true of the RE0.

However, it may be that the cabling that is used now is different from yours, seeing that I have a right angled plug on my RE0s?

I might also debate the difference in sound quality not to be as large as implied by 6.5 vs 10 (when driven by a Clip+ at least) but in fairness, without EQ, the strong mids of the NE-7M can be annoying (especially with my Shuffle, it's not so bad with the Clip, surprisingly). The RE0 is clearly better, but as you say, the NE-7M is lots of fun (it was the first of my IEMs that made me understand just what the heck a soundstage is .

The RE0 also need a lot more juice but frankly, I don't really feel that my FiiO E3 changes much if anything about their sound.

So when are we going to get a review of the Etymotic Research HF2 and HF5?

I somehow never manage to have the cable stay behind my ears - may be related to wearing glasses that are already crowding the space there.

As for sound quality, I left the RE0 another 12h on fairly high volume (louder than I ever use them, for sure) and maybe it's placebo but they seem to have further improved, maybe I should delay judgment another 50-100hours of use as in fairness, the NE-7m probably have 200h on them by now... I still love the mic in the NE-7M (I spend most of my work traveling and every piece of kit I can eliminate is good, the mic lets me get away with not carrying the craptacular BB headset , just wish there was an RE0-mic

Does the E5 count as decent amp? I may yet get one (stopped buying most types of gadgets as I don't have time to use them which gives me the "right" to buy some small ones I may not ever use

For what it's worth, here's my recent write-up comparing the Ety HF5s to the Klipsch S4s.

heres another thought joker! what about the audeo phonak!

I think I will either get an Icon Mobile or the E7 should it ever arrive - gives me a device that is small enough to fit in the laptop bag and can be used to both circumvent the barely bearable DAC in my work T61 and the unbearable one in my home D830... It looks like the bug has bit me, so it's not quite impossible I would get another one after that

Have you tried putting the slider thing as far up as you can? I found that doing that helps the cable stay behind the ears. Another option may be silicon ear guides which is what I have on my RE0 and they have helped as well.

I noticed there weren't any Sennheiser IEMs in your catalog. Do you ever plan on reviewing them or are there any IEMs you've already reviewed that could be comparable to them?

After reading most of the reviews and the easy to comprehend table I'm getting the MeE ai-m6 for $25 off Newegg. Thanks.