Just a quick update: I've been listening to uncompressed 24-bit audio (coming out of Propellerhead's Reason) and NOTHING is missing, nothing is too much. The SE535 are my new on-the-road near-field monitors haha!

I'd love to give them all a try but all we have here is shure (and sony, koss, akg), no ety, no ue, no westone, nothing!  

I got mine today, was surprised by the mids, maybe a little too forward? Maybe I was used to my RE0 (with more discrete mids). The bass was a pleasant surprise!! The highs aren't as airy as the RE0 but they do show up when required. My theory is that the SE535 was definitely made for musicians...

LOL... customs vs. customs!! I ended up pulling the trigger on the SE535s, it turns out our monitor engineer knows someone who knows someone that sells them for US$ 527 here, 2-year warranty included! All things considered it's a great price for Brazil..   Thanks everyone for your help!

Definitely! I started thinking about UM1 and now I'm considering SE535 and UM3X... And I've considered JH5 already LOL... You see, I really cant imagine hard plastic being better isolation than soft tips, maybe after sending them back for remolding 3 or 4 times but remember, I live in Brazil...

Probably yes (I've read otherwise, and you gotta admit it makes sense... hard plastic vs. soft complys or silicon, opening mouth, moving head all the time...), but I cant afford decent customs right now (like UE or JH), so I'll buy good universals that I can sell in the future and maybe buy...

Oh, I just read a little about the SM3, not interested anymore... So it's either the SE535 or the westones... Let me clarify, I'm a musician and I'll use them as in-ear monitors live, so they have to have mids (I play the electric guitar in a rock band, so the sm3 would kill me with their...

Yeah, they are so hard to find, these SM3... Even on ebay, there's only one pair for sale (no shipping to Brazil, of course!).  I'll try the suggestions above, thanks!

Thanks RockaRolla! Could you also tell me where I could buy these from Brazil without having to sell a kidney?

Hi, I tried to find a thread like this but I couldn't... I'm torn between the SE535 and the UM3X (and maybe the UM2), are there any other high-end universals that sort of look like customs (clear and discrete) like these?   Thanks in advance!

LOL Murmaider, indeed very dorky... But hey! iems ARE dorky! At least nerdy, wouldn't you agree? Thanks ClieOS, I imagined it wouldn't sound right... Any phasing issues regarding tube shape, curves, length? Sorry, I'm curious...   Thanks again!

Hello,   Have any of you seen this kind of arrangement? You buy universal IEMs, get custom molds made with a silicon tube that goes through them and plug your universals (assuming they have a nozzle) to the other end of the tube. Something like this picture:     I would really...

I've just bought mine, I have the RE2s already so I'd like a comparison (I couldnt find the answer to these specific questions anywhere): 1) How do the low freqs compare between the RE0 and the RE2, please? I mean, Highs: RE0>RE2 as far as I've noticed, but what about Lows? 2) Do they...

I got mine 3 days ago, tried them right out of the box just to see how much difference the burn in would make... They sounded awful! Really harsh and no bass at all. After 10 hours of burn in the high end sounded much better, still no bass. After 20 hours of burn in the bass suddenly appeared...