I just received my pair of sale M300s yesterday, and spent a few hours listening to them out of the R5 balanced on high gain. I replaced the cable right away, and with memory hooks (and wearing them upside down), I don't feel a need to use the earhooks that seem to be such an issue in the thread. Stock cable seemed funky, anyway. I did a lot of digging through my eartip collection and after trying unsuccessfully trying to stretch a few pairs on, I found some bi-flange tips that seem to work OK. I'll have to do some more experimenting.
My stock MSEB setting is doing pretty well with them, and while the bass might need some adjusting, I'm impressed with the SQ so far. The thing that struck me so far was the holographic nature of the presentation and how I can pick out the staging on good FLAC files. It's really good. My wife didn't hear as much leakage as I expected.
Hopefully with some different eartips these won't hurt my ears so much. It's not awful, but the stems are so darn wide. I did order the Audeze Groovy kit, it's back to $10. Maybe once I get the insertion angle right, it will be better. But so far, I'm impressed. They won't be daily drivers, but they are a very enjoyable listen. I'm not sure if they'll ever fit metal music, but on jazz/pop/rock they were really nice for $50.
My stock MSEB setting is doing pretty well with them, and while the bass might need some adjusting, I'm impressed with the SQ so far. The thing that struck me so far was the holographic nature of the presentation and how I can pick out the staging on good FLAC files. It's really good. My wife didn't hear as much leakage as I expected.
Hopefully with some different eartips these won't hurt my ears so much. It's not awful, but the stems are so darn wide. I did order the Audeze Groovy kit, it's back to $10. Maybe once I get the insertion angle right, it will be better. But so far, I'm impressed. They won't be daily drivers, but they are a very enjoyable listen. I'm not sure if they'll ever fit metal music, but on jazz/pop/rock they were really nice for $50.