[elliot]

Sometimes I can hear my heart beat when using my Shures. For those with experience with both kinds, is this phenomenon of hearing or feeling your heart beat in your ears less pronounced or less present on inner-ear mold canalphones such as ultimate ears? Thanks!

 

[Jmmmmm]

congratulations, you're alive

they isolate more than regular canalphones, so I would assume it's worse.

 

[elliot]

bump!

 

[atx]

Maybe you should check your blood pressure?

 

[nikongod]

i feel teh same thing with my etymotic er4's when no musioc is playing.

weird, hunh?

 

[toaster]

nice icon elliot.

 

[JohnRich]

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Originally Posted by elliot Sometimes I can hear my heart beat when using my Shures. For those with experience with both kinds, is this phenomenon of hearing or feeling your heart beat in your ears less pronounced or less present on inner-ear mold canalphones such as ultimate ears? Thanks!

Depends to some extent how you've inserted them - if you trap extra pressure in your ear canal then you'll hear your pulse more than if you break the seal once they are in and let the pressure even out. Typically all the eating/breathing/heartbeat noises seem louder as the seal gets better.

 

[jp11801]

I have the ety 6i and when resting they are fine but at the gym I hear my heart and on the eliptical they have an in and out of phase quality. That said they are great.

 

[quackattack]

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Originally Posted by atx Maybe you should check your blood pressure?

I was thinking the same thing. I hear my heart beat sometimes with e2c's, but only after I have been joggging for an extended period of time.

 

[Paxonator]

sometimes before I got to bed I can hear my heartbeat. It makes it hard to sleep.

 

[gorman]

It's called occlusion. It's completely normal.

 

[Ttvetjanu]

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Originally Posted by jp11801 I have the ety 6i and when resting they are fine but at the gym I hear my heart and on the eliptical they have an in and out of phase quality. That said they are great.

Same with me, only in the gym though.

 

[ragnarok999]

sound funny to hear heartbeats in the ear

Now this moves me futher away from canalphones
for now i stick with my koss ksc-35 hope it arive soon