Wear your Triples and take the elevator up one floor. Problem solved!

1) "I'm listening to music with these cool IEM's and I'm still living in this dump?" ==> Buy new house/apartment. 2) "I'm listening to music with these cool IEM's, living in this cool house/apartment, and I'm still driving this piece of crap?" ==> Buy new car. 3) "I'm listening to music with...

Removing the cable is easy - just use a pair of scissors. It's re-attaching the cable that can get tricky...

    ...Said Marie Antoinette. <evil grin>

  Hmmm... Considering that the Triples give a fairly shallow fit and the nozzle on the Quads is noticeably shorter, I'd expect the Quads to give a really shallow fit - which seems like it would make getting a good seal a major challenge. Makes me hesitant to take the (shallow) plunge...

  Did you remember to stay at the booth for at least 150 hours of burn-in? <g>

  I think a lot of this is a question of attitude. If a recording has flaws (e.g. something that was digitized from a vinyl record and has some hiss), a more accurate, detailed earphone will reproduce the flaws as well as as the music; if the flaw is there, only an inaccurate earphone will fail...

  I think this is sort of an apples-versus-oranges thing: Any pair of earphones is going to let you distinguish between a saxophone and a trumpet, or even a saxophone and a clarinet. And probably even a pretty crappy set of 'phones will let you distinguish between an alto sax and a tenor sax...

I'm kind of waiting for someone else to test-drive the quads when they come out. Am I a coward?

  I think I'll have to vote with Toom on this issue: The differences, if any, from burn-in are likely to be small enough that a comparison across time for the same set of 'phones is almost certainly going to tell you more about varying external conditions (insertion, how you're feeling that...

  Using a clip does, I think, reduce microphonics (although not to zero, I find). Really, though, in my experience the best way to get rid of microphonics is to wear 'phones with the wires looped over the ear. Unfortunately, the Triples aren't designed for this; I'd dearly love to see an...

I tried it once, and found it pretty useless. I'm using a Sennheiser clip on my Triples, and it seems to do the job better. That said, I've yet to find the perfect cable clip - any suggestions out there?

  Could well be. I'm using a Huawei P9-Plus, and I believe this model is considered to have pretty good sound processing.

  Nice review - although FWIW I haven't found the Triples to be as bassy as you describe. My sine-wave testing indicated that (at least to my ears) they were essentially flat up to around 4700 Hz., with pretty good bass response down to 50 Hz. or lower. (I actually have a small bass-boost in my...

The pic shows the right-side 'phone in the right ear - so there's no need to swap channels. I just quickly tried inserting my pair like that, and my instant impression is that I won't get quite as good a seal as I normally do, and the placement of the remote may be problematic. OTOH I do...

As long as you don't propose to my pair, I suppose I'm OK with this.

  Hmph - really strange that you perceived such a large dip just where I perceived a peak! I'd suggest we listen to each other's Triples to cross-check, but you'd have to fly to Israel - kind of a major effort just to satisfy some intellectual curiosity about a pair of $100 earphones!   I'm...

  Are you using a tool like SineGen, where you can set up comparison tones by pitch and volume? If so, I'd be interested to know how many decibels you need to take the tone down at 4500 Hz. to sound as loud as a tone at 3700 Hz. or 4000 Hz, and also in comparison to tones above the peak. As I'd...

  I'm wondering if you got an "off" pair - I also did the sine-sweep exercise, and my results were quite different from yours. What I heard was a reasonably level response, with peaks at around 4350 Hz (4.5 dB amplitude), 6700 Hz (5.5 dB), and 9200 Hz (4.0 dB). I didn't hear anything very...

  It's worth noting that the dip shown in that graph is at around 6500 - 7000 Hz. - right where most people have a resonance "bump" that increases the apparent volume. This dip is thus probably deliberate, since a truly flat input would create a strong and annoying perceived peak in this...

  There are a couple of things that could be going on here. One obvious thing to check is the fit - if you're not getting a good seal, you're going to lose a lot of bass. I found that to get a really satisfying fit with the Triples, I needed to use SpinFits rather than any of the included tips...

For whatever it's worth, I did a little sine-wave sweeping (as described in http://www.head-fi.org/a/how-to-equalize-your-headphones-a-tutorial ) and came up with the following equalization settings (implemented on Neutron for Android) for my Triples:   4350 Hz.: reduce by 4.5 dB  (the peak...

I haven't heard from anyone who's had them long enough to give a good durability check; but they do appear to be quite sturdily made.

I'm not familiar with the MA750i, so I can't give you a comparison.   The Triple Drivers are very solidly built, and offer strong sound reproduction - the general consensus seems to be that you'd have to spend a lot more money to equal or exceed them. (I can't personally vouch for this, as the...