That esp950

The AKG, Grado, and/or Stax TOTL cans would do (only other person who has an HR-2).

goodyfresh said:

The SE215 are definitely some fairly bassy IEM's, so yes, but they don't sacrifice midrange detail or treble sparkle except for some very mild bass-bleed into the lower mids.


If you're interested in knowing about their sound, go read the various reviews of them on here, lots of people have reviewed them.  They're pretty damn good for their price (99 bucks new) and not to toot the horn of my own sale here but for 50 bucks they should be an absolute steal.

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I actually WANT really bassy IEMs haha. I've been searching for an IEM that is both really really bassy but isn't overly sacrificing in the mids. And I refuse to spend more than $40 on an IEM so eh, what's $10 more? So yes, to answer your question, I AM interested in purchasing them .

doctorjazz said:

Now, if someone had an 009 and an Abyss, we can do the comparison everyone on the HEK thread would like...

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Haha I wanna just see the Abyss. It's so legendary to me now.

doctorjazz said:

Now, if someone had an 009 and an Abyss, we can do the comparison everyone on the HEK thread would like...

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That would be a great shootout.
 
We could move them over to my home to do a quiet, dedicated listening session. And, just for accuracy sake…we should leave them there for a couple of months. 

immtbiker said:

doctorjazz said:

Now, if someone had an 009 and an Abyss, we can do the comparison everyone on the HEK thread would like...

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That would be a great shootout.

We could move them over to my home to do a quiet, dedicated listening session. And, just for accuracy sake…we should leave them there for a couple of months. 

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I can't believe you would sacrifice yourself like that!!!!

^^^^ Well, it is for science...

We will be there! Let us know if you like us to bring any specific models to try.
 
Cheers,
Jack

WA8
 

b-dawk20 said:

I actually WANT really bassy IEMs haha. I've been searching for an IEM that is both really really bassy but isn't overly sacrificing in the mids. And I refuse to spend more than $40 on an IEM so eh, what's $10 more? So yes, to answer your question, I AM interested in purchasing them

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Haha I wanna just see the Abyss. It's so legendary to me now.

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Try the JVC HA-FXZ200. They are about $150 on Amazon. A little over your budget, but they have a built in subwoofer. I have them and can attest to their bass. They are quite clear as well. I'm bringing them with me, and may be persuaded to let them go...for small change. SMALL.

ttle?! LOL that's almost 4 timees what I care to pay for haha. No IEM is worth that much to me at this moment unfortunately. I'm almost reluctant to pay $50 but its a good deal <_<

japheel said:

That esp950

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Could do that......thanks for remembering.

Will probably keep the table simple this time but not as simple as just having my Stax SR-X Mk3 Pro last meet. They did get a lot of good notice.

:rolleyes:

If it will be okay with everyone, I am gonna stop trying to sell my MFSL Ultradisc DSOTM and bring it to the meet up as a disc to travel the room as wanted and at the end go as part of the auction to whoever will have it. Anyone got any problem with that?

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If it will be okay with everyone, I am gonna stop trying to sell my MFSL Ultradisc DSOTM and bring it to the meet up as a disc to travel the room as wanted and at the end go as part of the auction to whoever will have it. Anyone got any problem with that?

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Sounds good to me!

b-dawk20 said:

I actually WANT really bassy IEMs haha. I've been searching for an IEM that is both really really bassy but isn't overly sacrificing in the mids. And I refuse to spend more than $40 on an IEM so eh, what's $10 more? So yes, to answer your question, I AM interested in purchasing them

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Haha I wanna just see the Abyss. It's so legendary to me now.

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Well like I said, I'll have them on-sale for 50 dollars there at the meet in two months, unless something changes between now and then.  You can take a listen to them there and see if you feel they still do mids well enough to suit your tastes.  If you want, you could PM me and see about the possibility of arranging a sale or trade here over the Interwebz, but I wouldn't recommend it because for one thing, I have no experience yet whatsoever as even a buyer, let alone as a seller, in the online-trade portion of this website, and for another thing it's probably best to take the opportunity to listen to something before buying it, yaknow?  So being patient for two months until the meet would be a good idea, probably.  Especially because it's hard to find audio stores that have demo-pairs of IEM's as opposed to demo-pairs of full-sized headphones.

My Trinity Deltas are here now, and I have to say they kick the crap out of the SE215 in every category EXCEPT for bass-quantity, and yet I still like their bass more than the SE215 because it is tighter.  The clarity, soundstage and imaging, and everything else, are all so much better.  The Deltas are, you all may know, relatively new on the IEM scene, and I have got to say they are a JEWEL.  I cant really imagine a better value (sound-for-money) pair of IEM's out there for 120 dollars or less.  Sure, they still don't sound as good as my Sony MDR-1A headphones, but the Sony MDR-1A are full-sized over-ears and cost 300 dollars new here in the U.S.

I want to see the Abyss, too!  People seem to think it's downright awe-inspiring, or something.

Edit:  In case you want to take a look, here are graphs of the Frequency-Response and other stuff of the Shure SE215.  Keep in mind that Golden Ears uses different compensation curves and a different setup than Innerfidelity.
 
http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/ShureSE215.pdf
http://en.goldenears.net/5982
 
As you can see, they are most definitely bassy, and yet not SUPER-recessed in the midrange relative to that.
 
The issues with their sound, IMO, are an overall congested feeling, a kind of "blending together" of details, most noticable at the bass/mids boundary and a little bit at the mids/treble boundary, and a very very narrow soundstage.  Both of those issues, however, are very common for single-dynamic-microdriver IEM's like the SE215 (the Trinity Delta are dual hybrid-driver, on the other hand), so I don't think it's due to anything being done wrong by Shure's engineers.  There's newer tech with titanium-coated dynamic microdrivers that apparently is able to address a lot of those issues, but the SE215 were designed and released before that tech had become extremely common.  Most likely, such tech or something similar will be used in the successor to the SE215 in a few years. . . .Shure's IEM's definitely have steadily evolved over the years.  All that being said, I'd say that for 99 bucks the SE215 are a fairly good deal, for the $84.99 discount price I got them for at Sam Ash they were a VERY good deal, and for 50 bucks they should be a steal.  On the other hand, the Trinity Delta, as I mentioned, are an INSANE deal at 120 dollars, haha.

I paid $125 on Amazon. They went up. If I sold them, I'd sell them for around $50