Agreed, isolation on the FX700 is below average.... But the magnitude of their bass and sparkle of their treble are simple made for edm.
I've owned the SM3, and still own the GR07, and can safely say that isolation aside, the FX700 beats them easily on all accounts when it comes to edm. At least that's my experience. I was very impressed by how the SM3 rendered drum & bass and some hard trance, but quite underwhelmed when it came to psytrance or acid-teckno. It just doesn't have the sparkle to capture all those mind bending nuances.
Gilly87, I've seen Infected Mushroom live plenty of times. I've seen many psytrance artists live over the years, gone to many psy-parties, and been following Goa since it's inception in the early 90's. This subgenere is to me the ultimate expression of psychedelic dance music... and the FX700 is to me, the ultimate vessell to channel these squelching acid sounds straight into your cerebrum where they'll synergize with your synaptic solutions, filtering out ego pollutions amidst amnesic revolutions. Or something.
And to continue with my unapologetic subjectivity, I'm currently listening to Cosmosis, which is old-school ('95 I think), but nevertheless the FX700s render it sparkly, fresh and bludgeoning powerful... like old school Goa, with a contemporary phatty bombatty psytrance production. Mind blowing.
In the interests of objectivity, I'll say that I've tried psytrance with all the iems in my sig. Some were passable, some very good... none were even close to the FX700.
