Maybe it's that I like buying things other than audio gear from time to time, but I am ENTIRELY (well maybe 98.75% to be honest...) content (although I should add, far from satisfied) with my XBA-H1. Clarity and energy are fair or better than fair, and it seems fairly stable from genre-to-genre with the 1,000 or so tracks I have on my iPhone playing on random. In short, I never get bored with its sound. Maybe with other things, but never the sound itself. It has the warm, lush feeling I got from lesser Sony models and cheap dynamics, with less to find fault with, across pretty much the whole spectrum. I could live with this IEM forever. I am thankful for, among other things, this very thread and some others like it, having piqued my eventual interest in hybrids - and also that I found a Sony that doesn't either let in all of the wind noise or suffer so badly from house sound that it is painfully obvious (to my brass ears anyway...)
I am content to the point, I wish I was buying an FX-1100 from JVC so that after a first impression, I could sent it to joker for review. The anticipation would make the eventual return even better! He once recommended the JVC woodies to me. Ahhh, if only I could bring it full-circle. I'll probably get a pair, after all. Something like this time of year, 2018.
Thanks go out to every member who has contributed to this forum - and this thread especially. You have, directly or indirectly, enriched my life through better sound, and I'm grateful this place exists as the excellent community that it is. My only regret is that I must spend a great deal of time on hiatus from Head-Fi, in order that I don't recklessly spend a great deal of money because of Head-Fi - and similar sites, because it takes more than [relative terms:]great sound to stay alive. Fortunately for me and my loved ones, great sound has made living a little more like thriving.
