I have been using ES5 and then ES60 for 5 years now and I must have gone through more than 10 cables by now. It's almost every 6 months. I wear these in ears to the gym and some sweat surely does contact the cables through my ears but I always wipe them afterwards. Is sweat causing this? Am I...

And by limitation I meant a limitation of manufacturing. It's not a probable theory that a company like Westone cannot manufacture an earphone, which does not buzz at around 90-95 dB SPL, which is around the SPL as I have heard my left earpiece buzz.     

Quote: I have already contacted Westone and I'm shipping the earphones to them tomorrow, they are paying for the shipment. They'll test them and see what I mean and replace them with a working product.    It's 100% a defect. It's not me trying to find something wrong with the...

Quote: Yeah but if you have read my original message, only the left earphone buzzes. So it cannot be about the "limitations". Not to mention, a buzzing of that kind with volumes as I use is unacceptable with a 30$ earphone, let alone a 450$ one. So it's definitely a defect, in my case.   

To give a better volume reference for the track I posted above, that track buzzes my iPod Nano + Westone 4 when the volume is around 95% to 100%. Don't worry, it's a quiet track so setting to 100% volume won't cause too loud a sound in any case. 

Here is another track which creates a buzzing   https://rapidshare.com/files/459413316/Breakout.wav.zip   It's taken from The Next Three Days Soundtrack, track title "Breakout".    This one only buzzes the left if the volume is really high, so crank it up and see if it does anything...

Have you tested with relatively loud volumes? They only buzz if the volume is high, but I suppose that's always the case with buzzing issues.   I'm thinking whether it was bad luck or just that they have sent me the ones I have sent them instead of replacing them for real. Because what are...

I'm not hearing a distortion. My left piece literally buzzes, like when a driver of a speaker gets damaged and buzzes. I can send you another recording where I hear the buzzing if you want to test further. 

I have extracted the part which buzzez the Westone 4, and I'm putting it for download on rapidshare.    https://rapidshare.com/files/459344333/21_Hitting_The_Fan.wav.zip It's the 10 second part where it buzzes, not the entire piece, to save space. It's uncompressed .wav file so there are...

The music piece I noticed a buzzing on the left side of Westone 4 was "Alias Season 2 Soundtrack", track 21: "Hitting The Fan". Around 3:24 there's a french horn and the left side of Westone 4 buzzez like crazy during that. I've tried my other IEM's including Westone 3, making sure it's not the...

I've been experimenting with triple fi's for 3 days now. The best way to make them sound imho is to use Comply T-500 tips which totally roll off the top end and make bass less bloaty, and then equalize to get the top end back. They basically become ER-4S with better bass and better soundstage...

I purchased Triple Fi's recently and I must say the weirdest thing about them is if I use them straight outta iPod they sound pretty bright, which I like, but if I connect them to a 1000$ headphone amp (PS audio GCHA), their highs sound rolled off like Shure's. I just don't understand why that...

Quote: Originally Posted by James63 sorry not true at all...... a single driver has fare more limitations than several drivers. Look at the top of the line speakers or better yet listen to them There are speakers costing 40000$ with 2 drivers and speakers costing 1000$ with 4...

UE sounds brighter than ER4S you say? But not as detailed?

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr Iriver As far as accuracy and such The shure E4c is the best of the ones you mentioned. As far as being enjoyable, my favorite out of those is gonna definatelly be the westones. The westones are very musical and stuff, but a lil dark. Tha superfi are the...