[PiccoloNamek]

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Originally Posted by sahwnfras When did people start defending BOSE? What have they ever done for you?

I tried out a pair of Triports at target, and they helped to remind me just how good my SR-60s really are.

 

[joneeboi]

To allow outside sound into the ear while wearing their IEMs, Bose puts a giant hole in it.

To allow outside sound into the ear while wearing their IEMs, Shure invents a push-to-hear device.

 

[nothing101]

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Originally Posted by jdimitri ps. what's so wrong with open iems? UE has a hybrid iem that would pretty much prevent you from getting run over by cars, i'm sure that's almost happened to iem users a couple of times

If i lived in the city i would be dead... i also think that my etys have MUCH more isolation than they need.

Cant say much about bose cause ive never seen or heard one. The worst value ive ever seen in headphones was probably $250 senn hd515s. That might be worse than bose!!!!

 

[nsjong]

Um, the tips are shaped like the ones from the Apple IEM's.

It means they won't seal well and will fall out.

Plus they'll sound like a piece of ... ya.

 

[kool bubba ice]

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Originally Posted by 3lusiv3 Geez, guys! How can you bagging a product you haven't seen or heard? You seem like a bunch of idiots going on about these IEM's as if they are rubbish. How do you know they are open anyway? You can't assume anything about them.

It's called having a track record..All BOSE products cost to performance ratio is TERRIBLE.. You actually believe this will be different..Gez..

 

[rapier84]

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Originally Posted by joneeboi To allow outside sound into the ear while wearing their IEMs, Bose puts a giant hole in it. To allow outside sound into the ear while wearing their IEMs, Shure invents a push-to-hear device.

And the best part is...they are probably gonna charge the same prices

 

[EFN]

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Originally Posted by kool bubba ice It's called having a track record..All BOSE products cost to performance ratio is TERRIBLE.. You actually believe this will be different..Gez..

Precisely what makes BOSE hatred existed in the first place. I have to admit that I was impressed with the SQ from Triports when I auditoned them but the price tag killed everything and I can get the same level of SQ from a modded 60Ohm KOSS

 

[derek8555]

Terrific! So Bose is shifting their signature sound from "no high, no low" to "no high, no mid" now??

 

[kramer5150]

I dont like isolating IEMs I find them very dangerous when commuting. I need to hear things around me to a certain degree.

The MDR EX90 is semi-open and I like it.. so I don't see any reason why I wouldn't like another similar design.

 

[D555]

The Sony MDR-EX90LP are an "open" earbud/IEM design and I think are the best of the Sony IEM series and are pretty good.

 

[bl4cksh33p]

Just an idea: I'd imagine the big thing at the end to be, in fact, skinny; more for practical reasons, maybe it is used to easily insert and pull out the iem.

 

[afobisme]

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Originally Posted by derek8555 Terrific! So Bose is shifting their signature sound from "no high, no low" to "no high, no mid" now??

look at the bright side, at least they are adding lows now

 

[drizek]

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Originally Posted by derek8555 Terrific! So Bose is shifting their signature sound from "no high, no low" to "no high, no mid" now??

Maybe they just drilled a hole in the back of some Koss Plugs.

 

[wnmnkh]

Please just wait guys. It might be really good ones...

Who knows? Think about Sony, they make a lot of crap ones like V700, but they also make good ones like SA series, V6 and V900.

 

[ilovesocks]

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Originally Posted by ColdFireArow Well they may get it right this time, if they do us Head-fiers have won the fight and can go back to nursing our wallets. But they seem to be to busy trying to apply the word "Triport" to everything...

IMO, if these IEMs sound good and are in an affordable price range--maybe $100 and superior to an ER-6--then they might become popular around here. Imagine what could happen if these caught on; what would happen to Etymotic? It would test Head-Fiers' loyalty to our manufacturers. I suppose we might find out which speaks louder: absolute performance/price in a single product, or integrity and ethics throughout.