Looking for something compatible with my custom ear molds.

[ASLinterpreter]

Hello everyone and thanks for helping me out. I have a pair of custom ear molds from my audiologist, and i am looking for a descent pair of headphones to use with them.  I am including a pic so you can tell wheat they look like. AS you can see in the red one, they have a small hole in the center, and if you take the rubber ear piece off of the cheap in ear style headphones they fit great. I am looking to move up in quality to something that is around $60. I only use these for running. I am a long distance runner and spend a lot of time with these in my ears. I need something that does not have a mic or volume control on the cord, both of those just get in the way while running.
 
Thanks again for the help, and am looking forward to your ideas!
 

 

[ProtegeManiac]

We won't be able to tell what fits in that from a photo - after you take that "rubber ear piece" (actually, it could also be foam or some kind of plastic) off an earphone, the plastic tube it's attached to varies in size from one earphone to another. If you now what earphone fits in it, then you can look up what other earphones can share ear tips ("rubber/foam/plastic ear piece") with it without, say, stretching the ear tip over the bore of the earphone,* and then read up reviews on those. Also, I can't tell from the photo, but is is supposed to go into the bore of that ear tip? Because then it won't be the same measurement as the bore of the eartip as when it fits over the bore of an earphone, meaning those compatibility lists might not be of any help.
 
Also, even if the bore fits, we have no idea if the fit with the custom tips will be good when they go in your ears. Some custom ear tips are made with some part of the earphone shell partly embedded in the mold, that way it would generally be the same distance in the ear as when it was using universal tips, and do't stick out too much, so don't be surprised in case they don't fit. Local audiologist over here require that you leave the earphone with them so they can make that kind of fit, otherwise it will be like Frankenstein's Monster (except you have earphones sticking out of your ears, instead of bolts on your neck).
 
Well, to be fair, there was at least one IEM that made you look like Frankenstein's walking corpse, just as the manufacturer intended.



 



*ex. I put a tweezer through the hole of Sony eartips, used it as a spreader all around several times, then did one wide stretch and put it over my earphones, then slowly compressed and pulled out the tweezers. Yes, I have tweezers, because I get a slight unibrow and I have two tiny eyebrow-like hairs growing in the center of my left cheek.