BobK
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I'm pretty new to IEMs and now have some SA-6's which seem great to me. I wonder if I'm not getting the best out of them because I'm inserting them properly though.
I got some moderately cheapo Sonys a few months ago and found I got the best sound with the biggest eartips that came with them. The sound, however, was lousy compared to those from my Sennheiser HD25 non-IEM 'phones. A bit of research on Head-Fi led me to the SA-6 which I've had for a week now. I'm very pleased with them. I can get a great sound, not as much bass response as the HD-25 but fabulous clarity and pretty good soundstage (I think this means separation between sources at different virtual angles to your head - see, I'm really a newbie). All of this is with either neutral or + treble and the + bass ports. As with the Sonys, I find I have to use the biggest eartips to get this sound. If I use medium or small ones I can hear lots more external noise and the bass is completely useless. When I insert the 'phones I can feel some, but not all, of the edge of the outer flange of the eartips with my finger. Is this right? Should the outer flange be so far inside your ear that you can't feel it with your finger? Maybe I've just got ears with big holes in them...
I was thinking about trying some other eartips (e.g. Shure black olives) to see what the impact on the bass response was like. If I really need the large size of the Sleek earpieces what size Shure would people reccomend?
many thanks,
Bob
I got some moderately cheapo Sonys a few months ago and found I got the best sound with the biggest eartips that came with them. The sound, however, was lousy compared to those from my Sennheiser HD25 non-IEM 'phones. A bit of research on Head-Fi led me to the SA-6 which I've had for a week now. I'm very pleased with them. I can get a great sound, not as much bass response as the HD-25 but fabulous clarity and pretty good soundstage (I think this means separation between sources at different virtual angles to your head - see, I'm really a newbie). All of this is with either neutral or + treble and the + bass ports. As with the Sonys, I find I have to use the biggest eartips to get this sound. If I use medium or small ones I can hear lots more external noise and the bass is completely useless. When I insert the 'phones I can feel some, but not all, of the edge of the outer flange of the eartips with my finger. Is this right? Should the outer flange be so far inside your ear that you can't feel it with your finger? Maybe I've just got ears with big holes in them...
I was thinking about trying some other eartips (e.g. Shure black olives) to see what the impact on the bass response was like. If I really need the large size of the Sleek earpieces what size Shure would people reccomend?
many thanks,
Bob