Sam L
Headphoneus Supremus
Been away from this thread for too long. I'll catch up later but quickly, are there any rumors as to the price range of the new etys being released?
Been away from this thread for too long. I'll catch up later but quickly, are there any rumors as to the price range of the new etys being released?
@EtyDave
( Or anyone who's cut off the XR2 jack and re terminated it )
Re terminated the stock cable on the 4XR to 4.4mm as it's a full 4 core ( not a fan of 2.5mm ) Just wondering what's the stock cable on the 2XR below the splitter, 3 or still 4 core ?
Thanks, it's going to be a long several weeks.https://www.head-fi.org/threads/if-...thread-for-you.538615/page-1070#post-16092376 - that's the closest what you will get. The ETA for the multi-ba is around March, we shall have to wait and see.
I love the smell of solder fumes in the morning !There separate grounds down to the plug. You could reterminate and make it balanced if you have the connector and a penchant for solder fumes.
First off, thank you for your participation in this thread and the information you share! I've been using Etymotic IEMs for several years, starting with the HF series and now owning the ER4, ER3, and ER2 series. Nothing else I've used at any price, even above $1k, has been able to dethrone my ER4XR due to Etymotic's peerless tuning.
Is there any further technical detail you can share, either now or later post-release, about the interior design of the new multi-driver model? Some of the BA designs in units like Sony's IER-M9 and 64 Audio's have made for incredibly technically impressive sounding IEMs, even if their tuning hasn't been as on point as Etymotic's. Are the new Etymotics a heavily customized design, what do the internals look like?
In addition, for others reading this thread, please follow the advice to replace your triple flange tips periodically when you begin to notice them getting softer and easier to slip off the barrels, as I have more than once had to extract one from my ear canal with tweezers having used them too long without replacement.
I love the smell of solder fumes in the morning !
I see cable talk once in a while on this thread re: various ety models. Do any of them scale with balanced connects? I don't find any of the ety lineup particularly hard to drive and my current ety's (er2xr) hasn't been source dependent to my ears.
I don't have exploded drawings to share, nor am I very good at flowery phrasing for marketing prose. Here's the blunt engineering perspective:
Ultimately we dialed in the earphone with a combination of specific sound channel lengths and diameters along with carefully chosen crossover settings and acoustic damping as needed (often it's a combination of factors). For example, with a bass driver, one might achieve a low pass filter with a combination of an electronic crossover, an acoustic restriction and even components like acoustic dampers. It's a balancing act and a blend to find the frequency response that you are looking for. It's not really magical, it's just knowing what you are trying to accomplish and finding the means to dial it in and make sure it both fits in the housing and that it's manufacturable. There's a lot of back and forth between acoustic, mechanical and industrial design. If all goes right, at the end it all comes together in a nice looking and sounding earphone.
As others have guessed, it's voiced more like an XR, not the SR. I know that some will agree with that and others will disagree. But the XR series is, overall, the more popular one by a decent margin. It's a 2-way, 3 driver configuration with a single mid/high receiver and a dual bass driver. It doesn't have a wildly huge bass boost (around 5dB) and we kept the corner frequency reasonably low. It's got more sub-bass, which is something that people have been wanting for a while.
At the end of the day, it's not a replacement for the ER4 series, it's something different (particularly the form factor). As with anything, some will prefer the old way, some will prefer the new. For what it's worth, I like it and I am extremely biased.
[...] and to be completely honest it can still compete with the very, very best out there even today. It's a marvel. I don't know how that could be managed [...]
I would add that distance to eardrum is crucial as well. The closer the better (unless too close and driver becomes overdamped).Just another example for that the frequency response is ultimately and clearly the number one factor when it comes to in-ears' and headphones' perceived sound quality (surely not the only, but clearly the most important one).