Padded cases and protection?

[energeon]

I'm using a Campfire Andromeda, but I want to know to what extent padded cases protect the IEM. I use the padded case that comes with the Andromeda, but I'm not too sure how much it can really protect.
Will it protect against drops from your head to a concrete ground, for instance?

 

[ProtegeManiac]

I'm using a Campfire Andromeda, but I want to know to what extent padded cases protect the IEM. I use the padded case that comes with the Andromeda, but I'm not too sure how much it can really protect.
Will it protect against drops from your head to a concrete ground, for instance?

There are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many variables there even after you fix height, surface hardness, and velocity (ie you don't throw it down, just gravity).

There's angle of the drop and point of impact, ie, whether it got knocked off a shelf horizontally first or just straight up dropped downwards, and then after that it depends on what part of the case impacts the concrete.

So very generally, if based on high school physics experiments foam can protect a very fragile egg dropped at a height of two stories, then with thinner foam being compensated for by how your IEMs are not exactly made of egg shells and you're not dropping them at a height of two stories, then the padded case is doing a lot to protect the IEM.

"Very generally" of course is not the same thing as "absolutely," ie, don't expect the IEM to just survive all drop situations even with fixed height and surface that will receive the impact.