[OldHooky]

Open phones and IEMs are really practical, so I'm after a budget pair of Canals for the office. Keep my SR80s and Super.Fi 5 Pros at home.

They'll be used more for entertainment that serious listening.

EP-630s apparently available on Amazon for £8.99, CX300 for £11.99. Against this price and SQ, anything else worth considering?

Cheers

OldHooky

 

[4saken]

JVC Marshmellows/other JVCs?

 

[ring_wraith]

PX100?

 

[OldHooky]

But aren't the PXs Open? Plus the size is a bit on the unsubtle size. Pity.

Tried the Marshmallows but very unimpressed!

 

[emptyzzz]

mylarone X3is.....u could only get them off jaben thou and they're the pricest among the entry levels
the sound for its price is awesome

 

[4saken]

Well if he was willing to spend almost 70 US (price of the mylarones?) it opens up a lot more options.

Have you tried the kramer mod on the Marshmellows? If you plan to ditch them anyway, might as well try them out.

 

[rapier84]

For the price its hard to go wrong with the Creatives or the Sennheisers, but be careful about the source of purchase. Both are very well documented to have plenty of fakes around (search the forums, there's a thread on identifying fakes if I don't recall wrong...)

 

[OldHooky]

Rather not spend $70 on Canal given the competition and the fact it's more for reasonable background SQ than for specific listening.

 

[Envoy of Light]

Try the JVC HA-FX55 canalphones, they are much better than Marshmallows and don't cost much.

 

[OldHooky]

How would any of these compare to the MDR-X082 which I used in the office with my A818 until I sold it?

 

[navmau]

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldHooky /img/forum/go_quote.gif How would any of these compare to the MDR-X082 which I used in the office with my A818 until I sold it?

They dont isolate much at all, although the sound quality is more balanced than the creative or cx300. If you want decent isolation too, you can't got wrong with the cx300, I liked their overall sound better than the creatives.