Quote: Yep, these are my first quality IEM's. I listen to a lot of EDM, heavy bass stuff and I can't stop using the headphones with huge bass response for that. I just put the HF5's in with the foam inserts, they sound quite a bit better. 

I'm listening to these $9 in ears, I can hear a nice clear, clean bass drum hit. I listen on the Etymotics and I _cant_ hear it. I'm sealing them way in my ear until it basically hurts

I ordered a pair of Etymotic HF5's about a year ago figuring I'd get much better and much cleaner audio out of them than my $9 paid of in ear Skull Candies. I was wrong! The HF5's have absolutely no low end at all. Now I wouldn't expect the ridiculous bass the skull candies put out, but I'd...