s1rrah
Headphoneus Supremus
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Bought a pair of KZ-ATE IEM's off of Amazon for $14.00. As many have said, the performance/cost is unbelievable and I'm going to enjoy having the KZ's as backups to my Shure SE535's ...
But the tips on the KZ-ATE's really suck in my opinion. The nozzle is particularly fat, I'd say 2 to 3 times the diameter of the much thinner SE535 nozzles. After much prying and stretching, I managed to get a set of medium sized Shure "black olive" foam tips on the KZ's and sweet god I can't believe how great those $14 dollar IEM's sound. Seriously blown away.
But I need some other foam/sound isolating tip other than the Shure hack as it was just so much work to get them on and then getting them off completely destroys the foam Shure tip.
So any suggestions for good sound isolating tips for the KZ-ATE's? As mentioned, I prefer the foam/squishy type tip over the various silicon variants. You can see from the following photo that the tip is rather fat:
But the tips on the KZ-ATE's really suck in my opinion. The nozzle is particularly fat, I'd say 2 to 3 times the diameter of the much thinner SE535 nozzles. After much prying and stretching, I managed to get a set of medium sized Shure "black olive" foam tips on the KZ's and sweet god I can't believe how great those $14 dollar IEM's sound. Seriously blown away.
But I need some other foam/sound isolating tip other than the Shure hack as it was just so much work to get them on and then getting them off completely destroys the foam Shure tip.
So any suggestions for good sound isolating tips for the KZ-ATE's? As mentioned, I prefer the foam/squishy type tip over the various silicon variants. You can see from the following photo that the tip is rather fat:
