H20Fidelity
Headphoneus Supremus
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I've never laid eyes on a black set, someone else will need to help out.
Enjoy your ER4S.
Enjoy your ER4S.
Enjoy with your ER-4S mate.. I have also this classical one and wonder about newer one but I love that red-blue mark
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These seem slightly more comfortable to wear than Ety Kids/MK5 as well... have been listening for an hr without any comfort problems with large TF's... maybe it's due to its wider angle of the connector and narrower body.
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Yeah, it's definitely much easier to identify L/R with these unlike that little red dot on the newer ones. Kind of the throwback Ety trademark too so I'm pretty sure I'll just keep this one. The serial number on this one is in the 260,000's, not sure where that fits as far as production period goes.
These seem slightly more comfortable to wear than Ety Kids/MK5 as well... have been listening for an hr without any comfort problems with large TF's... maybe it's due to its wider angle of the connector and narrower body.
Real wonderful stuff as far as SQ goes. Kind of makes me wonder why I found the Etys so late in my Head-fi journey.
really?
out of all pairs of ety, I couldn't stand using the er4 because of the cable(tried all tricks and cables adapters, the best being the bend 180° and roll over with a wire IMO), and the MC5 because the shell is too wide for my ear canal(maybe this one isn't supposed to go as deep as others?). the kid/mk5 (same shell) are almost a perfect fit for me. I only cut like 1 or 2mm of the silicon cable relief, so that the cable can go more directly over my ear, but that's not even a necessity.
and as the er4 does sound a good deal better than even the hf5, I can tell you I tried to find a way that would be right for me. I tried hard, sold them, bought another pair, tried again, sold it again and I'm now once more wondering if I made a mistake...:confused_face: so that's 3 pairs of er4 in my life counting the one I had that looked like yours back in the days(hated the cable noise and it felt even worst on that old cable, but maybe that's my subjective memory speaking?).
this ER4 is that impossible GF that's so great at sex. can't stand living with her, want to go back to her as soon as I left. right now I'm compensating by dating a lot of cheap girls instead and the mk5/hf5/kid are some of them.
Also it seems you've used very high quality stuff before ER4S, like HD800 or some STAXs.
What can you say about similarities between ER4S and them? Especially about reality of sound repreduction, possible upgrades from ER4S, most similar headphones etc... I'm really looking forward from you about these topics. Just share your detailed opinions about "ER4S and the others"
K_19 said:
Thanks for all the tips guys. Yeah, it seems that the braided cables don't do much microphonics wise. It's just the nature of the Etys I guess due to their deep insertion. At the end of the day, I'm likely going to be using this stationary most of the time (since walking around with such an isolating IEM would be very dangerous) so hopefully the shirt clip will be enough to keep it under control most of the time. It's still worth looking at those new cables though, since another concern of mine with the older flat cables is whether they may be prone to kinking and memory and such.
Meanwhile, I just purchased a high quality case of renowned tradition for housing these:
Seriously though they do a good job for now, just gotta make some sort of a soft lining for the inside.
Any good minimalistic hard case recommendations for these? Due to the long body, chunky cable and the huge shirt clip and the impedance barrel these do get quite big when winded and barely fit even in an altoids can...
The Linum BaX cable comes highly recommended.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/719062/review-estron-linum-bax-new-iem-cable-for-a-new-age