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My little story,
I had used my e4's for several months, maybe 5, just using the wax cleaning tool. But then sound faded on the left monitor and it produced much lesser amount of sound.
I took off the nozzles, put them into a glass of water with non-alcholol based dish washing liquid (ie. fairy, stir it in the water, not in the nozzle) for few hours (remember to pop out the air bubbles with toothpicks that are inevitably appearing in the nozzle so that the water/fairy can reach the filter). Then I "shot" warm water through them for couple of minutes from both entrances to remove the fairy and wax. After that I dried them with paper and toothpicks carefully from inside ( Using toothpicks you can actually dry the filter with paper for faster drying time, but be careful not to brake the filter).
I tried them after few hours and the sound came with low volume. I waited all in all about 8hours and then... Both monitors produced same amount of sound, more then either one of them did before (as I can recall). This makes me happy of being a shure owner. I have done this three times and I think it needs to be done once for every two months at least ( for me anyway ).
And I was shocked about the sound quality difference, before and after cleaning. Lesser volume was enought, the sound in general became much more open and pleasing.
EDIT: I had to repeat this process yesterday as the sound didn't open up and balance in the middle properly after cleaning at the day before yesterday. Rich man would maybe buy new nozzles every now and then but not me! I find this sound position(left,middle,right ear)/volume differences to be the worst con of IEMs' with the significant loss of SQ.
I wonder why I hardly noticed any mentions about shure earphones' nozzles becoming an issue. Everyone just buy new ones?
I have read that cx300 ( and others? ) doesn't have removable filters/nozzles. How have its designers solved this situation which accured with my shure E4's? ( for E4 you can buy new nozzles of course, but I would have to order them from abroad = expensive and hard work ).
EDIT: PS: This is cleaning trick for shure E4. I don't know which other earphones can be treated same way. Maybe they should all be posted here.
I had used my e4's for several months, maybe 5, just using the wax cleaning tool. But then sound faded on the left monitor and it produced much lesser amount of sound.
I took off the nozzles, put them into a glass of water with non-alcholol based dish washing liquid (ie. fairy, stir it in the water, not in the nozzle) for few hours (remember to pop out the air bubbles with toothpicks that are inevitably appearing in the nozzle so that the water/fairy can reach the filter). Then I "shot" warm water through them for couple of minutes from both entrances to remove the fairy and wax. After that I dried them with paper and toothpicks carefully from inside ( Using toothpicks you can actually dry the filter with paper for faster drying time, but be careful not to brake the filter).
I tried them after few hours and the sound came with low volume. I waited all in all about 8hours and then... Both monitors produced same amount of sound, more then either one of them did before (as I can recall). This makes me happy of being a shure owner. I have done this three times and I think it needs to be done once for every two months at least ( for me anyway ).
And I was shocked about the sound quality difference, before and after cleaning. Lesser volume was enought, the sound in general became much more open and pleasing.
EDIT: I had to repeat this process yesterday as the sound didn't open up and balance in the middle properly after cleaning at the day before yesterday. Rich man would maybe buy new nozzles every now and then but not me! I find this sound position(left,middle,right ear)/volume differences to be the worst con of IEMs' with the significant loss of SQ.
I wonder why I hardly noticed any mentions about shure earphones' nozzles becoming an issue. Everyone just buy new ones?
I have read that cx300 ( and others? ) doesn't have removable filters/nozzles. How have its designers solved this situation which accured with my shure E4's? ( for E4 you can buy new nozzles of course, but I would have to order them from abroad = expensive and hard work ).
EDIT: PS: This is cleaning trick for shure E4. I don't know which other earphones can be treated same way. Maybe they should all be posted here.