Hello everyone, I'm a new member and a fresh Audéo owner as well!
First of all thanks to all of those who posted their impressions on the Phonaks, it's your fault if my wallet has shrunk a little lately...
A special thank you goes to dfkt for his excellent review!
Anyway, I got them from the German store about 2 weeks ago, the first time I plugged them in I wasn't as blown away as I thought I would be after reading all the enthusiastic posts, but I soon realized how damn detailed these phones really are... Compared to my previous IEMs (won't tell you what they were to avoid getting flogged
) they're light years ahead. The song which really sold me on these is Flaming Telepaths by Blue Oyster Cult, don't know if any of you know about it, but that single piano note on the intro sounds incredible through the Phonaks!
The first day I got them I compared the grey and black filters right away, and prefered the former by a long way (the mids on the blacks sounded too muffled for my taste); however yesterday I popped the blacks in and kinda liked them, so I'm still not sure... But I'm definitely leaning towards the grey ones, those mids just blow me away.
The only slight drawback is that I don't get such a comfortable fit in the left ear, but it must have something to do with the shape of the ear canal, it's certainly not the phones' fault because the right one is fine.
So in the end I really love them, and the best thing I can say about them is that they've made want to listen music all day long, something I hadn't experienced in a long time...