[brotherlen]

The Shure eartips don't work for me, I picked these up for my se210, much better. Very squishy. Awesome Foam Sleeves For Shure E2C, E3C, E4C, E5C - eBay (item 150206457842 end time Jan-22-08 20:06:04 PST)

 

[plywood99]

Speaking from personal experience, all iem's hurt my ears in the beginning. But after a couple years of use I could just about stick a copper pipe in there without too much discomfort.

Just kidding of coure but you will get used to the feel of iems after a while. That being said, the Shure black foamies and Comply tips are the most comfortable that I have tried. And I have roughly 50 - 60 tips here in my desk drawer.

Don't give up. it will take time for your ears to grow accustomed to foreign material sticking in them...


Ply

 

[redrich2000]

Some people find all full IEMs uncomfortable. There are also the semi-canal phones of the Senn CX300 style. With $80 to spend you get some of the better ones that people here talk about: Mylarone, Vibe, ATH-CK7 etc.

 

[kanix]

for people with small ear canal like me, comfortable IEMs just don't exist. Or they're not really in ear.

 

[Young Spade]

I have heard loads of good reviews for foam tips. If you want, go to
Comply Enterprises, Inc.[+] and look there. They make tips for MANY different types of IEMs.

 

[magzcampos]

try getting use to them, give em some time

 

[beep]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ernieBob /img/forum/go_quote.gif Discomfort/pain is your body's way of telling you if something is not good for you.

Strenuous exercise involves "Discomfort/pain".

 

[aieaguy]

I have very small ear canals. When I owned the SE310 and later the 530's I had no problems wearing them 8+ hours straight at work with Yellow Foamies. Try them out if you have shures: Shure * - Universal Yellow Foam Sleeves.

The only downside is that they degrade pretty quickly. You'll need a 10 paid pack to last a year if you use them everyday for 8+ hours like I did. Comply's are ok also, but they're kinda dark.

 

[Signal2Noise]

In all the IEMs I have tried I'll give the nod for comfort to Shure.

 

[Headphile808]

I think it's very subjective, comfort is all in the ears of the beholder.
Good Luck & Merry Christmas

Headphile808

 

[krmathis]

They do indeed exist!
I for one find the Westone UM2 to be quite comfortable, and I am sure there are others out there as well.

 

[qusp]

x infinity on the UM1 westone IEM's IMO are the most comfortable of all universal IEM's coupled with possibly the best cable design of all IEM's

 

[fenk]

Just get a pair of westone UM56 earpieces and see if they can be used in your IEMs.My suggestion

 

[synaesthetic]

Comfort is subjective.

I consider my HF5s to be comfortable using Shure olives. I can wear them without discomfort for about two hours before I need to pop them out and let my ears have a bit of a breather.

Conversely I can (and have) worn my AD700s for ten hours without taking them off other than to get up and go handle biological functions (I was sick and stuck home so I watched anime all day).

Earphone comfort, like everything else in the earphone world, is a compromise. I'm one of the few girls I know who doesn't immediately start feeling grossed-out by the thought of putting headphones inside one's ears.

 

[scompton]

I've used my UM1 with Shure black olives for 7 hours on a plane with no discomfort at all. They don't go very far in your ear, like canal phones suggested before, which are also more in your price range.

I recently bought the Klipsch X5 and I used them on 4, 5 hour flights with a little discomfort. It was more irritation than pain.

The Shures I used to have I could use for a couple of hours with the yellow foam tips. This was before the black olives came out.

My im716 is about an hour tops.