Recessed triple.fi 10 filters

So I was cleaning my triple.fi 10 filters and on my left monitors I seem to have accidentally pushed the squishy green and red things inside the metal hoops down like a third or half of an millimeter... somehow that makes the left side significantly quieter which is a pretty big problem.  Anyone know what I can do about that?  

Well, I actually managed to pull my entire filters out with my etymotic filter removal tool, which is basically like a small self-taping screw on a stick.

I forgot to mention that these are remolded TF10's.  When I initially compared them to brand new TF10's I thought that the sound changed a lot but now I believe that it's because of the filters.

I'm trying to decide if it would be alright to use different filters from other brands or if I should just stuff the TF10 filters back in.  Unfortunately UE doesn't seem to sell any replacements so I can't get new ones.

They are the original filters.  I'm sort of liking the sound without any filters... I was going to try out some other filters but they definitely don't seem to like being stuffed in and pulled out a lot.

Ety filters aren't solid, they're tubes with a tiny flat filter inside.  The TF10 ones are pretty much the same.

The highs seems to have diminished greatly after remolding, but removing the filters seems to have restored them.  I used to have the highs eqed up quite a bit but now I don't need to.  I think that my filters were just a little messed up. 

Remolding shouldn't change the sound but it often does.  I have found that the positioning of the drivers does affect the sound significantly, even if it's only slight changes in distance to your ear or angle.  For this reason, I would say that if you don't have to reshell then don't.  I would recommend saving up for real customs rather than reshelling or getting a real quality job done by UM.  I haven't actually used UM before, but I've heard good things about them  I personally wouldn't really recommend Fisher Hearing anymore.... they're very nice people, respond to messages quickly, and have a great turn-around time but I've been having more trouble than I should with my remolds.

I've noticed that my left ear monitors have the drivers positioned slightly farther back so that the sound tube is maybe 1mm longer than on the right one.  The entire nozzle that goes into your ear is about 1mm longer as well.  This makes the left side slightly quieter than the right side and I feel like the music isn't as pronounced.  I have heard that UM has some procedures that they take to balance the two earpieces which might prevent issues like this.  At any rate, I don't know if I got unlucky, but it really doesn't seem worth the trouble to reshell universal headphones.  Back when I was ordering mine, I remember some guy here on head-fi saying that it wasn't really a good idea because the companies put a lot of time and effort into designing their IEM shells and you can't just throw drivers into a shell and have it sound good.  I now believe that he is mostly right...

And back to the filters - I've actually adjusted the heights of the filters and I hope that I've balanced out the sound.  At any rate they're sounding as good as ever so hopefully that has fixed the issue.  

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Originally Posted by Stix 

 

How did you find the stock TripleFis?

You mean what I thought about them?  I guess I have a sort of unique case because I actually bought a pair of used Triple.fi 10's that had a crushed nozzle for cheap.  Although they were functioning (and actually sounded fine) when I received them I had the intention of reshelling them even before ordering.  Later, I happened to catch the Amazon deal so I got another pair of new Triple.fi 10's. 

I was personally able to get a very good seal with the stock triple.fi 10's.  They do take some getting used to and are pretty large and awkward, but I didn't feel like it was a huge design flaw and the shape did work fine for me.  

The brand new triple.fi 10's had very sparkly highs and nice bass as expected (V-shaped sound).  Some people find the treble harsh but I personally like very pronounced highs so they were great for me.  I didn't find the mids particularly recessed - they don't pop out in your face but I don't think it was too bad.  They were more detailed than my HF5's and I felt like the sound was very full and not airy.  I was actually very impressed by them, I feel like for $100 they are an absolute steal and even for ~150-200 they are still very good performers.  I guess their downfall is that some people really just seem to be unable to get a good seal no matter what they try.

If you end up wanting to remold, I have confidence that UM will do a good job, they seem to be very reliable and know what they're doing. I'm hoping to get some real UM customs eventually...

I ended up pulling out all the filters and replacing them with the ones that etymotic research makes for the HF5, which fit in fairly well...  You can pull the filters out with the filter removal tool that ER also carries.  If you don't have fischer remolds they might not come out as easily though.

I actually don't use my triple.fi's very much at all anymore.