[lwien]

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1. Either balanced, yet clear sound signatures; or slight bass-oriented sound signatures would be ideal.

 
Sure sounds like a description of the RE-400's.

 

[SoThisIsSound]

You're welcome mate, the Audeo's were my first dip into the audiophile pool, so they have a warm place in my heart haha. Good luck with the search buddy

 

[steven-026]

Now I'm leaning towards the Rock-It Sounds R-50 and the Hifiman RE-400.  Custom tips aren't as appealing to me anymore after I realized regular tips are actually pretty comfortable, I just had the wrong size for my current IEM's.  So that's why I might not get the Etymotic HF2.  According to joker's IEM review, both the R-50 and RE-400 are superior in sound, so it's really just down to these two I guess.