Westone 4 Appreciation Thread and Reviews (a.k.a. Westone 4 ?) - Page 227

Is anyone using the yellow shure foamies?  That's what I use and I have no problem with bass extension or treble sounding muddy, I find they fit perfectly on all the Westone's including my Westone 4.  They provide a little bit better of  a seal because they are the same thickness all the way through their length.  I agree that any of the deficiencies that people seem to claim on the westone 4 can either be fixed by a slight eq adjustment or a better fit.

Yea I can see how that can be an issue. I don't put them on all the way for better insertion.

You gotta admit though they do a better job of not deadening the sound than the other tips.

Maybe they put all those tips in there just so people like us have something to talk about.....

 uhhhhh.. Dude.. Ur High or smthing?  you should better get some sleep man.  

i use yellow foamies on my w4s... and its gives a great transparency compared to other Grey foam tips and silicon..  it truly unleashes the power of W4s.. but too bad very few uses it..   never mind ! Love to see Ur hearing i mate!

LOL, awe Dude.....why Yes I am, on life and music! and sleeping very well also, spank you very much!

 

but bumming that I didn't try the tip mod with those W4s before I sold them off? as my brain converts the harmonious audio waves of pleasure back into organic eletronic signals, that feed into my cerebral cortex, and then settle into my being, my soul, and creates peace, joy, love, and harmony, as I become one with everyone and everything around me! might have kept them W4s after all,

 

likes I sayz, gotta love them W4s, or just gotta love, your brother, your sister, yourself!

 

Happy Happy everyone, Peace out, and listen to the music!

Edited by ANDEROAN - 10/21/12 at 5:29am

That's what I thought previously, but ever since I am listening more and more, I'm loving it.

my previous IEM is UE700 and I do listent to Metal songs which mainly concentrates on guitar crunch.

 

yes that's also exactly what I thought when I first got them, that they needed a boost in the treble dept? and I was going to get an all silver cable from Chris_Himself to help out in the treble, and even used the treble booster setting on the iPod to help compensate, but after a couple of weeks the sound seemed to change, the treble brightened up, no longer needed the treble booster on the crappy eq. the sound really balanced out ALOT? I really started loving them alot more then, I didn't think that BAs needed burn in time, as Dynamic drivers do? but the W4s really benefited from a week or so of playtime? some white and pink noise overnight also,  

 

but in the end it was the low end that seemed light for me, so I sold them off? wish I'd had tried the tip modd before hand though? oh well, to bad so sad, lol,

 

my ASGs are curiously fitting the bill for me atm? alot heavier sound, really mid centric, with a booming low end to them, and the treble seems to fall just where I like it? hhmmm go figure,

Edited by ANDEROAN - 10/21/12 at 6:13am

 Really hit home run with W4 in the IEM department  Might the the gear I have owned the longest  since joining this forum

Has anyone noticed that Westone has changed their tips recently? It seems like the silicone tips now have larger openings (aperture). I went on the Westone website and saw this picture:

 

Edited by Rip N' Burn - 10/22/12 at 11:52am

They look like to be all foam tips from the pics. Can anyone with recently bought W4s confirm this?

Looks like a few silicones, then foam tips with small base, and with larger base also tri-flange as well.

Finally found a tip that works better for me than the triples (which wouldn't stay sealed) - the Phonak Audeo Silicon Ear Tips (Large). Curiously, while they work great on the W2, W4, UM2 and UM3X, they don't work for me on the Shure Se535.

I tried larger bore soft triples on my little adapter mod and i feel ear-raped after an hour.

My ears get itchy with silicon but not so irritating to me to use foam for some reason so I had another mod idea i am going to try. I'll post pics if it works out for those who prefer foam over silicon.

RipnBurn is correct.  The tips on the W4 in the picture are surely a silicone with a larger hole.

 

I got a new pair last week from Earphone Solutions but they are original style of everything.

 

You can see on their website they are showing most of these IEM's with a new type of silicone tip.  I need to know where to get those.  Gott ahave them!!!

 

http://www.westone.com/store/index.php/westone-music-products/universal-monitors.html

Edited by Spyro - 10/22/12 at 2:03pm

 

IDK if it's the angle they have it at.  But those bigger tips remind me of the bullet tips, but in a translucent black instead of a translucent white :p  If you scroll down, you do get the old style tip (unless that's what you're referring to :p).