Quote: They sell AK100-111is for the same price with what? AK100-111is sells for almost ¥50,000 brand-new. F111 is ¥42,800. It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that the casing + cable costs around ¥7000. So it's likely that Parterre's price = F111's price + cost of cable/casing + cost of more...

To be honest 000 shouldn't be considered at all if ergonomics is what you're after. 000 is the stiffest, most microphonic, least comfortable FitEar cable around.   The SQ improvement 000 gives is quite audible to my ears though, so I don't mind dealing with the ergonomic issues.

Quote: Seriously doubtful, because the Parterre has multi-driver configuration. It also comes with 001 cable (+$) and pelican case (+$).   I'm predicting that the sales price of the Parterre will be around ¥60,000, Well, ¥59,800.

Quote: Nothing so far except this : http://fitear.jp/music/sp/parterre.html

Quote: ^This. The review did mention this; I should've translated it as well.   Kinda makes me wonder what kind of Anime music Suyama-san was listening to when designing the Monet.

Quote: Here's the outline of what the review says; the reviewer is basically saying :   - A lot of bass quantity-wise, but it is extremely detailed. He mentioned that the level of detail is maintained even at high volumes. He thinks that bass is Monet's biggest strength. - Dry and...

Quote: There is 002. It's basically 003 cable, but instead of L-plug 002 cable comes with straight plug similar to 000 and 001.

Quote: That's what 4.01 AM does to me.

Quote: I digested your post as saying basically "ER-4 and HF-5 is similar FR chart-wise, thus subjectively any difference in clarity is perhaps due to placebo effect".   I prolly misunderstood your post though.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when does frequency response graph have anything to do with clarity?   No matter how similar ER-4 and HF-5 are FR chart-wise, I'm sure as heck ER-4 still wins in terms of clarity over HF-5, especially during complex, fast passages.

Quote: Correct -- there are many other technical factors that could affect the soundstage of an IEM, such as the number of sound bores, diameter and length of sound bores, and driver tuning to name some.

Baby oil and, uh, personal lubricant works wonder when applied to ER-4's tips before insertion. 

I have never demo'd JH16 or ES5 so I can't really comment on those, but I have demo'd UM Miracle and I thought that the soundstage was pretty awesome.

Quote:   http://www.head-fi.org/t/597146/fitear-to-go-334-suyamas-custom-iem-made-universal/2010#post_9126690   Most of the changes listed there also applies to F111 as well, except for the stem/sound tube part obviously. So if we take Mr. Suyama's words at face value, the changes...

Quote:   Quote:   Yeah, the current batch is all sold out at both e-earphone and Fujiya-Avic. There are waiting list for the next batch already; it's highly unlikely that the delivery process will ever go back to normal (normal as in you can order it anytime and it'll be in stock...