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Anyone heard of Minerva customs?
Feb 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM Post #16 of 42
elcomesoft said:
Sent off another email last night to Lee. Hopefully grab a few more answers and see what's what.
 
Price still makes me waver in putting down, everything else seems fine. How long do you typically get out of custom earphones?
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I knew there was one item I forgot to post in the mammoth update above...

Lee said they typically expect around 4 1/2 years out of them. While they are new to IEM's the decades of making ear implants and hearing aids would suggest this is a well tested estimate.

Currently they do not reshell them at the end of this time. They looked at it, but given the low cost it wasn't exactly economical, most of the cost is in labor rather than the drivers/crossovers. I was a little disappointed by this, until the logical part of the brain kicked in... I can buy 2 of these for less than the ACS equivalent 1+reshell... and in 10 years time I'd expect sound improvements to hopefully to have rolled around so an upgrade after that I wouldn't complain about.
 
Feb 10, 2011 at 4:10 PM Post #17 of 42
br777 said:
 i wonder how they would compare with 1964 ears, who seems to both rival the minerva prices, and have garnered quite a following on head-fi.
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Very interesting question. The big plus for me is that they are Europe based which makes getting repairs or solving fitting issues a lot lot easier. The other plus for me is Minerva uses silicone rather than the hard shells.
 
Feb 10, 2011 at 4:13 PM Post #18 of 42
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landofshane said:
I knew there was one item I forgot to post in the mammoth update above...

Lee said they typically expect around 4 1/2 years out of them. While they are new to IEM's the decades of making ear implants and hearing aids would suggest this is a well tested estimate.

Currently they do not reshell them at the end of this time. They looked at it, but given the low cost it wasn't exactly economical, most of the cost is in labor rather than the drivers/crossovers. I was a little disappointed by this, until the logical part of the brain kicked in... I can buy 2 of these for less than the ACS equivalent 1+reshell... and in 10 years time I'd expect sound improvements to hopefully to have rolled around so an upgrade after that I wouldn't complain about.
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£150 over 4 1/2 years.. £34 a year. If a pair of earphones, take the RE-Zero as a random example I'm familiar with, lasted for 2 years then that would cost me £35 a year... putting it that way, £150 for a custom does not sound bad at all.
 
As for laser etching, it sounds amazingly cool but what do you etch onto earphones?
 
Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM Post #19 of 42
Hi guys
A new poster here looking for some help

I've been looking at these for a few days
I'm currently using a set of Bose in ear, I'm thinking either I'll go for Shure 425s and get customs added or a set of the dual drivers from Minerva. I have seriously small ear canals and have never found a set of in ears that can fit. Any thoughts guys.  
 
 
 
Feb 14, 2011 at 5:04 PM Post #21 of 42
Magic news mate - hope they work out well. Can't wait to hear the feedback.
 
Feb 15, 2011 at 10:03 AM Post #22 of 42
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landofshane said:
Magic news mate - hope they work out well. Can't wait to hear the feedback.
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Just had my first ever impressions done. No more uncomfortable than typical insertion and removal of bi-flange or tri-flange tips for me. Fortunately I managed to get re-booked early this morning as our washing machine came at 7:30am when it was expected 8am-6pm.
 
Impressions done today. Probably expect my customs by the 26th.
 
Was tempted to order myself a Peli case. They use the Peli 1010 and etch your name/model name into the box, however for me I think it's a bit too big for transporting around.
 
I can't wait to hear them. Even if people are a bit 'only a single driver for a custom', they should still be worth my money for the comfort, fit and isolation factors. £100 ($150-170) for an extra driver doesn't tickle my fancy right about now.
 
Feb 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM Post #23 of 42
They look like the FreQ Custom IEM's that were popular 2 years ago but died out.
 
Feb 15, 2011 at 3:27 PM Post #24 of 42
elluzion said:
They look like the FreQ Custom IEM's that were popular 2 years ago but died out.
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I'm not sure I understand that comment. As far as 'look', all customs look pretty similar to me anyway...

Besides, weren't the freq customs a budget acrylic option (as opposed to the silicone of these)?
 
Feb 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM Post #25 of 42


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landofshane said:
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elluzion said:
They look like the FreQ Custom IEM's that were popular 2 years ago but died out.
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I'm not sure I understand that comment. As far as 'look', all customs look pretty similar to me anyway...

Besides, weren't the freq customs a budget acrylic option (as opposed to the silicone of these)?
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I meant more based off of the look, (no detachable cable going to the iem). Yeah I think these are different material.
 
Mar 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM Post #28 of 42
Nudge - did they turn up? How are they?

I've had to put mine on hold as the money was donated to help with the NZ quake instead. WIll revisit in a month.
 
Mar 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM Post #30 of 42
Anything new here?
 
At this price, even the triple driver custom is very tempting. Especially because of the silicon shell. I once had a 3-way silicon custom IEM (now they're known as Spiral Ears from Poland) and I like the material a lot (have also acrylic UM56).
 
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