Hey guys here's my review of the new Sennheiser-Adidas CX 680 Sport IEM's. Actually I would consider them more "half" IEM's as they don't really go in your ear canal that much. Sennheiser-Adidas CX 680 (Review) | Skatter Tech While they're not the best sounding, and continue on Senn's...

Quote: I figure that at that rate, one might as well just have gotten a HD600 instead. My HD580's are probably a 7-10yrs old.

Quote: just got an email saying it is on the way! They knew I needed them for a head-fi meet on 2/14 with wiatrob, naamanf, blutarsky, Sherwood and a couple of others. Quote: Great news Larry, I assume you'll have it in time for the meet? Yup, he'll definitely get it in...

Quote: HearYourself (HY) has been in business 28 years and have long supplied pro musicians. Well so has Starkey, but you don't see any of us buying their IEM's...

Quote: It is made by a diyer from China. He imports the same units for UE11 and put them into his own custom IEMs called UM4. HIGHLY doubtable. UE uses proprietary drivers from Knowles that are exclusive to them.

Ever consider using a pipe cleaner? (one of those twisted wires with fuzzy stuff on them you get at craft stores)

Quote: And hopely I will get the gems less than 3 weeks, I told John that I've been concerning if it will take at least 6 weeks for international orders. But he told me they have outcome the problem and the production is very fast now, it should take about 2 weeks. So, let see. I sure...

Quote: Im not sure exactly how i'd go about the livewire's as being in the uk i'm a tad limited by what i can get. That's no excuse! Just look at Baines! He's in the UK and he got his for free! They ship a good amount of Livewires to the UK from my understanding.

The Livewires completely blow the PK-1's away sound quality-wise. I tried both of them back to back and the PK-1's clarity and range came nowhere close to Livewires'. I felt like "why would I spend money on these (PK-1's)?" when I had my Livewires.

Quote: I'm not much of a photographer and they were taken with the iPhone 3G's camera. Enjoy! I'm surprised you didn't have them modify your iPhone cable for you. I've seen their modded iPhone cables where they basically chop off the iBuds and put Livewires connectors on there. That...

Quote: I listened to the livewires universal fit for about 1/2 hour at canjam '08 They have a universal fit!?!?!? I've never heard of that. Is it a special demo that's not for resale?

Quote: After waiting close to TWO MONTHS, I got fed up and emailed LiveWires. Catherine Neal finally told me that they were ready and they would be shipping out. I'm rather disappointed in their overall slow customer service. Before I even sent off the ear impressions they were taking a...

Quote: Yea I emailed them and they haven't gotten back to me yet so I was wondering if any Head-Fi'ers had a recommendation. Try calling them. I stopped emailing them when I found out John isn't the most dilligent when it comes to answering emails. I've had 100% success calling.

Quote: If you have the time, Id order a custom like the Livewires, thats what I wish Id done. I never feel like I can casually listen to my IEMs; if they go in, they need to stay there for at least an hour or its just too much of a hassle (with adjustment, fit, seal and whatnot). X3...

+1 for the Livewires. I used'em A LOT this year in college since my roommate didn't like hearing my music coming out of my HD580's.

If you can't get a custom cable for your Livewires, Livewires will mod an existing iPhone cable to work with Livewires. John showed it to me a while ago and it was pretty cool. They basically replace the ibuds on the iPhone cable with their Livewires connectors.

AFAIK Livewires doesn't have an "upgrade" cable. I know they have a cable with a 50ohm resistor, but that's mainly to get rid of the hiss on lower quality sources (laptop, old ipod, ect). The standard cable performed better when I was able to A-B the normal and 50ohm cable a while ago.

Starkey's been around A LONG time. They're a dominant player in the hearing-aid business. I know they were offering custom IEM's for at least the past year and a half, although nobody bought'em (I just thought they weren't very good if nobody had bought'em).

Quote: Well, Earl co-founded the company, so I doubt not being the source is the real issue. I know for a fact that he's almost constantly on the road, leaving just his wife running the office. It's certainly possible that he mails everything off to California where it is sent to wherever...

Quote: Thank goodness I live in California. The Nashville office sounds like a completely different company altogether. lol. It's like they say, "If you want the best, go straight to the source (CA Office)!" Although I'd get my impressions done in Nashville if I lived around there.

Quote: There is another new big TV show they are just now being used on (Jimmy Kimmel or Hannah Montana are old news), but I can't say which show it is, until John says it's okay. Hrm, would this happen to be ABC's D _ _ _ _ W _ _ _?

Quote: At times the highs are so mumbled, like guitar and vocal on The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend of Mine, was horrible at the end, was just a myriad of piercing noise! Weird. That songs just great on my Livewires. No mubled sounds or painful highs.

Welcome to the club ya'll. I'm still absolutely loving my Livewires. Thinking of getting a color change though lol.

Quote: What do you guys think is best red+blue, clear, clear+blue or clear+red I think clear/clear, clear/white, or clear/black look the best. Quote: what are the specs on these things? Resistance, sensitivity and such... IIRC they've got 24ohms of resistance.

Quote: Anyone own PK-1 here? How is it against Livewire? I A-B'd a PK-1 to my Livewires last year at Headfest. The PK-1 doesn't even come close.