Multi-Custom In-Ear Monitor Review, Resource, Mfg List & Discussion (26 reviews: UM PP6 added... - Page 8

Excellent work Joe! Very useful thread.

Starkey (Norway)
Model (Acrylic) SA-32 LIVE,SA-32,SA-22 Acoustic,SA-22,SA-12,SA-11i

Model (Elacin® ER FlexComfort) ERM-1,ERM-2,ERM-3,ERM-5. Ps you have to buy Elacin® ER FlexComfort plug to use ERM.
The good thing about Elacin® ER FlexComfort you can use it as musicians earplugs/concert and just buy acoustic filters providing 9dB*, 15dB or 25dB.

2-year warranty on parts & labor and atleast 30 days refit.

When i buyed the shipping price is included plus molding but i dont know how it workes with buys from another country.

Might be good enough with what you already have.

http://inearmonitoring.wordpress.com/
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/494930/review-starkey-sa-43-jh-13-pro-jh-16-pro

This is my personal impressions of Starkey and service that they provide.

First of all i wanna start off with there service, i went to there store.
They offer me to tryout SA-12 and SA-22, at that time i had Monster Turbine Gold.
Soundwise it was so good that i sold my Monsters the day after.

I buyed ERM-3(sounds similar to sa-12) because it was cheaper and didnt have the money for SA-43.
After 2 months i lost my ear plug and told then what happend.
They offer that i could upgrade my ERM-3 to SA-43, i didnt have to pay the full price.
Because could use the elements that are already in ERM-3.

Really Nice!

The best customer service I have ever experience.

I just got mine few weeks ago,it is so soild build and sounds so amazing good.

Compare to MTPG it has better music separation, detail and clarity.

The word airy never striked me with MTPG, never really understod it that the sound could sound airy is a good thing or bad?

Now im sitting with this expensive SA-43, finally! now i know that they are talking about this airy sound.

It has more depth in the sound every sweet tone is just melting together and becomes this sweet candy you always wanted.

Tones can swings it natural course because it has more space to breath in.

Vocals is beautiful so much better then in MTPG, always feelt it lack it.

They filled the inside of the shell with silicon so the drivers inside gets more protection against shock, but the silicon is also used for extra isolation from your surroundings

Noise isolation -30dB Best isolation i ever came across.

As an industry first it has two switches on the faceplate that lets you customize the level of bass and presence in your mix.

And if you choose a custom from Starkey, that truly means custom - if you prefer you can choose to have only one switch, or none at all.

Best to have both and later on for small fee they can rebuild with none, just the way you want it.

This what differs mine from Navea that i have both of the switch.

One Switch for extra bass driver and the other one is for extra presence/treble.

How cool isnt that, i really like this option.

I dont know if Navea build is SA-43 with extra presence/treble on or off.

But with extra presence/treble on it gets more airier soundstage,vocals shines,detail,abit brighter,gain abit volum boost.

Sound signatur of SA-43 by my ears and played by Sony X:

Beautiful neutral with a perfect tight and deep bass response, can be adjusted with deeper/quantity bass adjusted Either brigther or darker sound by these switchs.

Sounds so good that i dont need to EQ it at all.

Best thing about this iem is like having mulitiple customs in one.

Read link about if you want to know abit more about the SA-43

My experiences

Silicone it is easyer to maybe get it in your ear, but if you take it in and out a few times it is like rubber thats being pushing agianst your skin.

This can cause soreness in your ears and its feels it is easyer to get destroyed or miss shaped.

Valve/vent on iems can gives you airyness but negative side is that it effect noise isolation, which isnt good will also leak sound.

It doesnt matter how much you EQ a universal IEM, it wont sound as good as a high end Custom which is my experiences.

Customs have the best fit for your ears and noise isolation.

Anyways Impressive works, Joe!

Updated my last Reply

Yeah it is really important that people pick right sound signatur for their taste of flavor.

The big winner is the one you choose, they are all different."Like Navea said"

This is the real site http://www.starkey.no/107/starkey-sa-43, i dont think people will understand much hehe.

Btw Tunz isnt making same product as Starkey Norway, they developments are diffrent and so on.

I work really close by where starkey has there store.

I want to shipp my starkey so you can try it.

But i will die without them, i can try ask if they can send of a demo to you or something like that.

Here is a other review link about Starkey SA-43 : http://inearmonitoring.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/sa-43-review-lyd-og-bilde-november-2009.pdf

Had none issues about the filter, it is well none and fits right in.

It`s to expect from one of the world leading hear aids company.

(Borrowed from starkey)

As you can see the filter infront, use the filter for concert or hearing protection and still maintains the natural audio fidelity without distortion.

You cant use as same time with ERM monitor.

SA series sounds better then ERM, but ERM isnt that bad either.

woah..that's some crazy stuff going inside those shells

But the number of bore holes suggest that it's not just a JH16 reshell.

Quote:

Originally Posted by average_joe 

 

Anyone care to guess what it is?

Scrotum Ears?    J/k, they do look cool.  

Are those the Rooth 4-way 8-ba customs?

You know, Frontier has a 4-way 4 ba custom out.

...

You should buy it.

Jeez, are there five bore holes there?