Hey folks! I've been out of the headphone game for many, many years. I bought Shure E500s (later replaced by Shure to SE530 after cable died) waaaaay back in 2007. They were so good that I basically stopped looking for IEMs after that. Tragically, the right cable on my SE530 has now died...

Sorry to bump an older topic, but I've owned the Lumia 520 for 3 months now and the sound quality is excellent!  To my ears the sound is very organic with a low noise floor on my Shure SE530.  I was honestly shocked that this $80 phone sounded so good, when my expensive old HTC Evo 4G LTE was so...

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EAC, unfortunately, is just horrendously slow on this computer.  I don't really have the time to play with every single setting, so DBPowerAmp tends to be more practical.  I'll give CDex a shot.  I have some suspicions that my CD drive might be crappy--it is the built-in unit on my Elitebook...

Pretty much like the one on top, but with a few surface scratches.  Never interferes with playback or mp3 ripping.

Hey everyone, I'm in the process of ripping my collection to FLAC.  However, I'm running into some trouble--both EAC and DBPowerAmp seem incredibly sensitive to errors!  It can take 10 minutes to rip a troublesome track, and I just don't have that much time to deal with errors.  I've never had...

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Quote: You are oversimplifying a lot.  It's more like spending $595 on E500/SE530's, with the distinct possibility of future repairs.  High end headphones should last a long time, period.  I had Etymotic ER-4P's for several years with no problems.

Remolding costs $117, because I can get the molds done by an ENT friend for free.  And I certainly expect a $450 earphone to last longer than three years!!

I received a canned response basically saying the same thing.  Rather disappointed that they don't stand behind their product more, but I will likely do a remold/recable from Inearz.  No more Shures for me in the future!     Quote:   It seems like Shure doesn't really understand how...

I emailed them appealing for lenience :-)   Quote:   Will update if I get a response!

So I just took a careful look around, and a set of Denon AH-D2000's are just $215 on Amazon!  I don't really need the small size of the E500's these days, although their sound quality really needs no qualifiers.  However, it's still hard to justify spending $145 on a new set that might crack...

Oh... bummer!  I've been away from Head-Fi for a while and it seems like there is a huge influx of new earphone models.  So you guys think I might be able to do better getting new headphones for $145ish?  I'm not sure how far the industry has come.  It seems like a couple years ago, the...

I don't need a custom fit.  I'm very happy with the stock shape, I just need a basic recable.  I emailed Kim from Fisher Hearing.  Is there anywhere else I could get the cables repaired without actually going all the way to a custom mold?