Yeah that's true I'm sure part of the pain I was getting from stock & silicon tips was the constant pushing them back in. I've walked around outside all day today with the sonicfoams and barely felt any discomfort at all. I emailed them this morning and when I got home tonight there was...

I got my XM4 from Amazon warehouse deals which were advertised as coming without tips, although weirdly they did arrive with 2 L's and 1 S in the box, lol. The large stock tips gave good ANC but my gosh they were painful. I also had to EQ a lot of brightness into them to make me happy.... I...

Ewww... I'm so new here... Am I about to get my head kicked in??

you know what annoys the purist in me, though?  when cheap gear sounds AMAZING.  I'm sure part of this is expectation - put me in front of $$$$'s worth of gear and I may "expect" to meet God.  But when I'm in an electronics store looking for, say, a rechargeable battery but my ears are caught by...

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I think I might be audiophile and so I am reading/posting in this thread???   A few other things to note:   1) I love listening to drumkits and noting whether they were mixed for "crowd perspective" (i.e. assuming a right handed drummer, the hi-hat is mixed to the right channel, and all...

I've had my HD600's for about ten days.     Initial thoughts on unboxing - excitement! (ok that's an emotion not a thought!) and, er, a sensation of "seriousness".  In simply being in their presence I knew I had entered another world of audio, without even putting them on my head.   In my...