I had to return my 10RNCs because my ears stick out a little and so the little microphone pods inside the earcups were rubbing against the cartilage. Now I'm using a pair of Sony ZX700s, which are much more comfortable and have a more mid/high focused sound, so I'm liking them a bit more. They...

I'll try not to be too long-winded but it's a bit hard for an author. :D I've been considering my use of universal IEMs to be somewhat problematic. My ears are, well, strange. I have almost no chance of sealing with silicone tips unless I use ones so large they cause pressure and pain (while...

The lower-end Shures (SE215 and SE315) have a "negative profile" design that means they fit inside your ears and don't stick out of the hollow part at all. Since you liked the ER6, though, you might find them too dark and muffled.

Or use in-ears I suppose, but I still haven't been able to find a tip type that doesn't give me itchy ears. Maybe I should consider custom IEMs.   Anyway bought a pair of 10Rs (the noise-canceling variant). Will use them like crazy during the 14 day return window to see if I like.

It seems all but impossible to find a pair of portable circumaural headphones that don't either sound awful or destroy my ears with pain. I tried the 10R on at Best Buy and it was an amazing breath of fresh air in terms of comfort--I literally did not feel like I had any headphones on at all...

Basically just that. I love the sound signature of my SF5s, but they're not really built that well, the cable is not too durable and they have pretty terrible strain relief all around. So I'd like something that's more uh, resistant to abuse. I'm on my second pair, which lasted a lot longer than...

Pretty much the title.   I've been looking for a pair of study headphones for a while. Something small enough to chuck in my bag with my laptop and books, but not a pair of earphones--the "stuffed ear" feeling gets tiresome after a few hours. So by virtue of my desk headphones (JVC...

I recently have been looking for some on-ear headphones for studying because the "stuffed" earphone feeling bothers me after an hour or two, especially when I'm trying to concentrate.   So I bought some JVC S400 folding portable on-ear headphones. They are comfortable, they feel well-built...

Actually I have, and was quite interested in it as it seems to be very small and well-constructed, but it has a 10 ohm output impedance. That would be problematic for any headphones under 80 ohms, especially my earphones as they are balanced armatures at 13 ohms, and I don't even own any...

If I had more disposable income than I do, I'd probably buy one just for the collector value. It's just such a neat concept, even if it looks, well, old and has outdated internals and is completely smoked in the performance department by my year-old Galaxy Nexus.   It's like the Nokia N9...

Okay so... I spend a good deal of time doing a lot of classwork on my laptop, which has crappy, crappy sound, especially on my rather sensitive earphones--loads of noise and hiss. I'm looking for a solution to this problem, and a small DAC/amp seems to be the way to go here.   What I'm...

Unfortunately PowerAMP, DoubleTwist and all of the other alternative music apps I've tried ignore the ALBUMARTIST tag. I really need that tag or all of my Touhou arrange albums get split all over the place by the vocalist's name rather than the doujin circle.   Only the "boring" Google Play...

I asked this question over at XDA, but nobody seems to know. Actually, I have two questions.   One is in the title. I'd like to know what the Galaxy Nexus GT-i9250M (maguro, not toro/toroplus) has for output impedance on the headphone jack. I suspect it may not be near-zero... and I am...