New IEMs after S4i Breakage

Hey guys,

first of all: thanks for reading and this forum is awesome. Learned a lot about different types/companies by just browsing along for an hour or two. Well, back to topic.

Last week my Klipsch S4i broke (after 1 1/2 years :<). First the right one stopped working and some days after that they died altogether. So, it is time for some new shiny stuff! 

I started using inears back in 2006, with a pair of Sennheiser. Shame that I can't remember which ones, but I liked them and they lasted for 3 years before the cable broke. Since then I'm heavily in love with inears. So today I went into one of the Bose shops and listened to some music on the IE2, but I left the shop a bit disappointed. They created a really fantastic room to fill the music into, but the music itself lacked clarity around the vocal spectrum. Suddenly the famous "Nothing else matters" from Metallica's S&M Album sounded, well, dull. Not as crispy as I was used to hear it from my Klipsch/Sennheiser. I read that some people here think the S4i have a tad too much bass to them, but I actually thought they have a good upper spectrum too. (You might now understand that I'm not quite the audiophile type ;-))

I'm mostly listening to Metal and Rock (Behemoth, Lamb of God, In Flames, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Slipknot… also Shinedown, Stone Sour, Hinder, Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry -- you get it). Now, I don't really need *absolute* isolation. It's ok to hear a bit of whats going on around me (dont wanna run into a car haha). As you might have by now understood, I really like nice vocals. Bass and treble are equally important to me. I prefer even sound… For the price range I'm looking somewhere around the 90-120€ spectrum. One requirement is that the iems have to be available in europe, or at least have unproblematic international shipping.

I'm looking forward to your suggestions.

Thanks!

Thanks for your suggestions so far :) I will have a look into them. Sadly the Triple.Fi are really out of my price range this time, but I guess I'll add them to my amazon wishlist so I won't forget about 'em :D

@tzjin: thanks for the frogbeats tip!

@AstroTurf: I've seen you recommending the HF5 pretty often, you love those I guess ;-D?

I'd love to see some more people recommending me the HF5, seems to me they are kind of controversial - which might be a good thing.

I just saw that there you can buy replacement cables for the TF10, does that mean what I think it does? You can simply replace the cable instead of the whole set?… That would be a huge plus, since most of the time I seem to be breaking cables haha.

Gosh that's really nice. Makes the TF10 definitely a viable option then.

Thanks for the picture btw :D

Well I'm mostly listening via my iphone. I see what you mean, but I'm pretty concerned about having too much bass. However, since you put that under quotes, I guess it's not something I'd have to be concerned about on the EPH-100. Mh so I guess I'll just have to decide between the GRO7 and the EPH100 and put the TF10 on my wishlist.

@H20Fidelity: I know that sound is a very subjective matter… However could you do me a favor and compare Metallica's "Nothing else Matters" from the S&M Album between the GRO7 and the EPH100? But really really only if you have the time!  What I'd like to know is, if you close your eyes and tilt your head back.. which one of these two sets a bigger stage in your mind. The problem I had when hearing this on the Bose IE2 was that they set a big stage, the lows came out pretty clearly, but the second Mr. Hetfield started singing... It didn't feel like his voice cut through all the instruments. Kind of like mashing with the Guitar frequencies.

Thank you very much :-)!

So I guess I'll settle with the GR07 then :) Now I'll just have to find a place to order them with shipment to Europe. Seems like Frogbeats doesn't have them anymore. at least I can only find the GR06.