maguire, dunno if the sale is still on, but as a fellow gs1000 owner (mine's the gs1000i) and someone who likes them (like me), I heard the JH13 and the JH16 with universal tips at the NY meet last week and couldn't wait until today to take advantage of the sale. I wasn't that impressed, to be honest, with the JH16 - somehow, it just seemed to narrow the spectrum too much for me - i don't wanna say deadened the sound (i was listening off my ipod/sr71a amp) but it seemed, well, kinda flat for want of a better term. the jh13s, however, just won me over right away - i mean, a
clean sound, really balanced - almost reminded me, to an extent, of my hd800s (which i also really love). yeah, i've read that they can be a little sibilant - at least so revealing that they can be if the recording itself is that way - but (a) i was at a meet, so i couldn't really tell since listening conditions obviously were less than ideal, and (b) frankly, i'm not sure i picked up on that for the 15 minutes or so i was listening to them. anyway, the die is cast, the deed is done. but i'll tell you one thing, i won't be wearing them outside anytime soon, that is for ciento porciento (100 percent) sure!
so, from what little i know, i would say that if you're on the fence, just do it. (for some reason, being locked into the jh-3a amp doesn't do it for me - it kind of defeats the purpose of the IEMs, and also seems to imply that the IEMs, on their own, just don't cut it as well).
on a completely irrelevant note, since ordering them, i've read as much as i can about the stock cables, etc., and though to read the raves about the TWAG replacement cables (and i've learned to read those kinds of posts with a slight grain of salt) you'd think the stock cable is garbage, i have to ask myself, then why would JH Audio even use such stock cables (and not at least offer "better" ones) if it has pride in what it's doing. the conclusion i came to is that JH Audio
is proud of its product, and it finds the stock cables good enough to showcase their product. 300 dollars for IEM cables, well, ouch - that just seems a little hard to swallow to improve what so many posters have previously called the "perfect" IEMs. it's one endless merry go around to try to get perfecter and perfecter, and one that i don't think i want to go near. (PS- i have met the owner of Whiplash Audio, Craig, at one of the meets, and he is a great guy, so this is nothing against him!).
PS - famous last words - I ordered the TWAG cable yesterday at Craig's sale price... so much for getting off the merry go round (sigh)
