Hi, so I got to that point again where I'm having Ety tips issues. No, not about comfort, but about availability
I just saw a friend of mine selling his Shure 215, and guess what, four years, used almost everyday, and that original grey tips are still there! Feel like brand new! Meanwhile, a pair of my tri flange ety only last 2 months, 3 months if I'm lucky. And then, if I want to buy it, I have to resort to overseas shops and shippings.
Someone here once mentioned about buying the tips from him for cheap, and even though it's hard to swallow, I'm even more than willing to waste 60 usd for shipping from etymotic if it arrives in less than a week, and I can just buy 4 packs at once so that it will feel much cheaper. But the thing is, assuming my ety survive for years, I will have to keep buying the tips, unlike my friend with his Shure.
So, my question is, is there any... any tips out there that is: 1. As durable as Shure... 3 years, four years, without even any meaningful damage, so I don't even have to think about buying one again down the line, 2. That sound and isolate exactly the same or very very very close to ety tri flange.
Maybe.... Shure tri flange is more durable? anyone having experience using that? or maybe... I'm just so stupid that perhaps due to how deep ety is inside our ears, any tips won't last that long and I have to adjust my expectations.
About to buy Aonic 3 just because of this but I know very much I'm going to miss Ety sound so much, even though, at least from the graph, they look to sound quite similar to etys. So, yeah, any help will be really appreciated.
Thank you,.
EDIT: I've tried Shure Olives (bloated bass, and treble seems to be really weird), Shure flex grey (sounds metalic in a way? Like neutral but... weird), a cheapo dual flange from ebay (this one sounds quite good, but bass is certainly more prominent here, just a bit, but then the isolation and the insertion suffers a lot compared to ety tri flange).