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Good afternoon/evening folks -- I'm a new user and this looks like a great forum. I appreciate the opportunity to participate.
Short background -- I have a great but "older" main audio system, and have shunned portable audio up until recently. For a few reasons I delved into having a MP3 player. And I've enjoyed it, but current equipment is somewhat lacking.
Currently I'm using a Sandisk player but with the year-end bonus coming up, I'll be upgrading that to a Cowon D2 16GB pretty soon.
The SuperFi.3 ... not crazy about. First of all, being a female, I have small ear canals and the UE's are like trying to push a 2x4 into my ear. I've tried a couple of sizes of silicone, I believe the main in-ear housing is just too big for me. I've read a few threads here and see the QJays mentioned as being the smallest, but I have to say, as I can't find a frequency response chart on them, I'm inclined to keep looking.
So ... question would be ... I love good audio. The music I listen to, classical, new age, is filled with detail and nuance. I like hearing that. On my main audio system I can hear a singer's lips parting and the soft click of a clarinet's keys, and it's hard to give up that kind of detail. I like an accurate frequency response. OTOH, if the nature of IEMs is that a flat response ends up being inaccurate because the device is in the ear which artificially boosts or attenuates certain frequencies, then what matters is that what's sensed is accurate more than what's measured (if that makes sense).
Has everyone fallen asleep yet?
Should I go with custom units? I'm willing to spend $300-ish ... maybe more, but will the sound be that much better than the SuperFi 3's?
Thanks for reading and taking the time to make any suggestions.
Short background -- I have a great but "older" main audio system, and have shunned portable audio up until recently. For a few reasons I delved into having a MP3 player. And I've enjoyed it, but current equipment is somewhat lacking.
Currently I'm using a Sandisk player but with the year-end bonus coming up, I'll be upgrading that to a Cowon D2 16GB pretty soon.
The SuperFi.3 ... not crazy about. First of all, being a female, I have small ear canals and the UE's are like trying to push a 2x4 into my ear. I've tried a couple of sizes of silicone, I believe the main in-ear housing is just too big for me. I've read a few threads here and see the QJays mentioned as being the smallest, but I have to say, as I can't find a frequency response chart on them, I'm inclined to keep looking.
So ... question would be ... I love good audio. The music I listen to, classical, new age, is filled with detail and nuance. I like hearing that. On my main audio system I can hear a singer's lips parting and the soft click of a clarinet's keys, and it's hard to give up that kind of detail. I like an accurate frequency response. OTOH, if the nature of IEMs is that a flat response ends up being inaccurate because the device is in the ear which artificially boosts or attenuates certain frequencies, then what matters is that what's sensed is accurate more than what's measured (if that makes sense).
Has everyone fallen asleep yet?
Should I go with custom units? I'm willing to spend $300-ish ... maybe more, but will the sound be that much better than the SuperFi 3's?
Thanks for reading and taking the time to make any suggestions.