[Soundbuff]

What are the best tips to use with the UM2?

Can you use all Shure and Ety tips with these?

Where is the best place to order them? Thanks.

 

[johnmatrix]

The comply tips have more bass and both the ety and shure triflanges have more treble. Listen to the comply tips first to decide what you like.

 

[kithng]

I think it's different for different people as we all have different shape of ear canal.

for me, I found the black foamies provide the best sound.

 

[imported_Matt_Carter]

I use the Shure tri's. They sound 10x better than the stock foamies.

 

[ehpotsirhc]

You might also want to try the Ultra-Soft Flex Sleeves. Very comfortable and better sounding than the stock comply tips in my opinion.

 

[catscratch]

I've made a comparison of different UM2 tips here:

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...=116950&page=3

In general, I've found that short comply tips with EQ to bring out the treble sound better than Ety foamies or Tri-flanges, but without EQ, the Ety tips are significantly better. With the Ety tips, there is a sharp treble peak at 4-6 kHz and a midbass resonance that muddies up the midbass sound. With comply/EQ, the sound is very smooth from low-end to high-end. In the absense of EQ, comply tips stifle the treble badly, both the short ones and the long ones.

 

[james__bean]

The best tips are custom molds....