Very nice and good to hear that if I don't physically abuse the earphones, they'll last a while.   This is the problem with my iPot earphones, holy christ do I throw, jerk, bounce them around. No wonder I can't hear any sound from those things. I think all that abuse definitely contributed...

Very nice guys.   Thanks for your feedback on the armatures. This really boosts my confidence on how well these IEMs are built.     I just got an email reply from JH Audio and the email said that the sound quality will remain the same for a few ears, of course, without any harsh...

Yes, the Administrator is renaming me.   Here is a new thing.   If you have any JH Audio custom IEMs post your experience or if you have any UE custom IEMs post your experience. Try to mainly focus on the durability of your custom IEMs.

Quote: Very nice.   About how much do you listen to them? I mean the average hours per day or week.   Thanks for your reply, I'm glad to see posts like these.

  Quote: Yeah, this is what I was looking for. I think I always did have my iPod earphones super high.   Will this coil failure ever happen with the UE 18 or JH 16?     Quote: Sorry, I just hate liars. I'll edit that post later to take out the bad words.

Those of you who have iPods know what I mean by wear and tear. After using the iPod earphones for about 1 year, they'll sound like crap. Yeah crap, the quality of the sound gets reduced by a whole bunch and it only produces very, very low sound, so this is the reason you see a lot of teens with...

Yeah. Why does everyone say that Sensaphonics is awesome but not better than JH and UE. What's the main difference? and Why don't people mention Sensaphonics too much.

Oh yeah, I see Sensaphonics silicone IEMs promising -37dB of noise blocking. This is good, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. ALSO, nycdoi, do you mean you spend hours in the train station using your custom JH IEMs? And the JHs block more noise than the Shure in the train...

Quote: Originally Posted by nycdoi not really sure about hf5's foam, but my JH isolates better than shure se530 with yellow foam. WOW Look at the Shure isolation tech spec promises: Shure Virtual Sound Lab They say they can reduce 30-37 dB with isolation, which is very...

Okay, today I got my Etymotic HF5 and the sound isolation is freaking awesome, with the foam of course. These are the HF5's isolation specs. ---Noise isolation: 35- 42 dB (depending on eartip used) I tested the 3 flanged and the foams it came with, the foams won for best sound isolation...

Youch, I'm spending up to nearly $200 dollars with tax/shipping charges. I'm thinking of going with a custom set now, the cheapest is $400 but I'll never have to worry about buying $20 dollar sleeves every month, because I use the earphones WAY too much. Should I add $300 dollars and get...

How long do the foam sleeves last? I mean I'll be using them for more than 17 hours per day. About how many days would I have before they become saggy and squished flat like an old pillow.

I'm getting the Etimotic HF5. Because I was told it has the cheapest(price) BEST sound isolation. Now, I also heard that the sleeves/ear tips suck and are super stiff. How can I get the the softest and most durable and most noise blocking sleeves? Remember this, I wear earphones...

I'm getting the Etimotic HF5. Because I was told it has the cheapest(price) BEST sound isolation. Now, I also heard that the sleeves/ear tips suck and are super stiff. How can I get the the softest and most durable and most noise blocking sleeves? Remember this, I wear earphones...

YUP. I don't care about sound quality or any other mumbo jumbo that doesn't help isolate sound. My only goal in buying phones is to keep ALL environment sounds when I put on the phones. I heard blocking out environment noise is measured like this, Noise Isolation -20dB or whatever...