By the way, BA's are far more sensitive to being dropped. Harsh impact can easily break them

that's sad bc I have heard about the old ones lasting for decades

yes. an impedance adapter can turn er4p/er3se into er4s. Sometimes I wonder if when people talk about lack of detail is more just a "lack of many artificial peaks" in the treble etc

ER3SE is dark as hell

Re: thinness in Etymotics (ER4P in particular). At a certain point, once you get the bass seal shoving it in deeper is not going to affect the bass. This is something I didn't realize for a long time when I was a noob. I kept shoving my Tin T2s in my ear to try and get more bass out of them...

ER3SE is basically identical to the ER4P in sound signiature, perhaps some technical differences

on the other hand, maybe my ears have adapted to deep insertion and I really am deeper in than I think 🤔

bruv, to me seal is more important than depth. Maybe I just can't stand true neutral. Perhaps I am shallow-inserting and getting a bunch of pleasant harmonic resonances in my canal.

supposedly er2 has second order harmonic distortion, the BA models have more 3rd order distortion. I haven't tried them both so can't answer the second question

Is this still available (US shipping)?

Did your eardrums recover or was it a permanent thing?

I tried it and got fatigue after about a minute. I know this is because the brighter treble and that it probably just takes some getting used to. Also, I probably need an amp. Was powering off my PC and an Apple dongle (which, by the way, powers my HD600 just fine).

I only tried the ER4SR for about an hour and since it was my first time with an Etymotic I don't think I had deep enough insertion. All the same, I felt that the er4p had perhaps a slightly more natural sound, maybe because of the tilt. These are far clearer than my HD600s, and are better than...

Just got a pair of ER4P-T's. Blown away by the imaging, separation, soundstage (yes!), bass (yes, it has SLAM). Bass is enough. Pianos sound great. Vocals sound amazing. Rap sounds amazing. Pop sounds amazing. Isolation is out of this world. Can barely hear myself breathe.

Hi, still available?