My initial listen was during and after a hard run, whilst daughter practiced at goalie training. I must say it was a typical Midwestern WINDY evening, with beautiful clouds.
This afforded me two findings right off the bat: isolation, and fit during a rigorous workout (no, really!
). While I could hear the wind in my ears, it was much less than expected. I was very happy with the enclosed and mounted silicon tips.
And as for fit, I had no problems what so ever with running the X5 cable down. The little critter (OK, notnso little) stayed put, period. No movement at all. Again, quite happy, since they were run cable down.
As for my initial sound impressions? I am satisfied with that, too. A good solid sound, highlighted by what I will call "exuberant" mids, highlighted a pretty solid initial impression.
Good reach of bass, wasn't balanced by good reach of treble, though. Of course, this is only 1.5hrs into my listen, too. My hope is that the treble will open a bit, to balance the mids and bass.
The shape to me matches the excellent Dunu Titan 1, once of my first forays back into the portable world, and a worthy one to mimic!
Well done, so far!