Yep, best IEMs to discover the magic of Keith Jarrett's piano performance.
PS: has anybody else noticed that the Ety smiley on Head-Fi is wearing them laterally reversed?
I love Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
Yep, best IEMs to discover the magic of Keith Jarrett's piano performance.
PS: has anybody else noticed that the Ety smiley on Head-Fi is wearing them laterally reversed?
My ER4Ss finally arrived last week. I've been running them out of a Benchmark DAC1 USB and also a JDS Labs C5D. I'm really pleased. As someone earlier in the thread wrote, the difference between these and the HF5s is surprisingly significant.
However, I have one question. With some piano music, I hear a quiet but distracting rhythmic sound while the piano is playing. It sounds like a raspy vibration of metal. I don't hear this sound on the same tracks with my circumaurals (Oppo PM-2s). I hear it on both of my dac/amps. I was wondering if I was hearing the pedalling mechanism at work as a consequence of very close miking. The timing suggests that as a possibility. It could be some sort of reverb. Do others hear this with some piano recordings?
That aside, I'm really impressed with their performance across a range of classical genres and with jazz and classic rock.
Yep, best IEMs to discover the magic of Keith Jarrett's piano performance.
PS: has anybody else noticed that the Ety smiley on Head-Fi is wearing them laterally reversed?
I love Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
I love this guy's performance as well, regardless which of his concerts. You can really feel his passion and love in every single note, grunt, buzz and scrape, that's his magic - though, I know some people that find this annoying, while I find it unique.
Thanks to everyone for the replies. I think that must be it. I can't hear anything like it on other earphones, which I imagine speaks to the revealing nature of the ER4Ss. After doing some experimentation, the sound only seems to crop up on piano recordings that are (or sound to me to be) close miked. It's a shame. While I don't favour close miked recordings in general, the two to which I was listening are nice performance. I'll have to listen them on less revealing headphones.
Just as a side point, while many things sound good on the ER4Ss, they have a particularly nice rendering of high quality recordings (of good performances) with brass instruments. I have a couple of good trumpet-oriented albums and a couple of good French horn oriented albums, both of which sound very close to live on the ER4Ss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CF-xSm9tOk
If you hear that here at the beginning, the weird noise, it is definitely the pedalling.
I like having contrasting headphones. Iem's and headphones are different.. One can do things that the other can't. If you want something similar, i would look into AKg or Beyerdynamic. I have some hd600's. I chose them (over thebhd650's) because they contrast the er4s. I also have some dt1350's and they remind of a warmer er4s with a nice clear, subtle bass boost. I do like my bass clear. Especially if it's Ron Carter
I like having contrasting headphones. Iem's and headphones are different.. One can do things that the other can't. If you want something similar, i would look into AKg or Beyerdynamic. I have some hd600's. I chose them (over thebhd650's) because they contrast the er4s. I also have some dt1350's and they remind of a warmer er4s with a nice clear, subtle bass boost. I do like my bass clear. Especially if it's Ron Carter
I do like my bass clear. Especially if it's Ron Carter