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Anyone in EU/UK wanting to sell their IM-02/IM-03?
Hey guys,
I recently bought a ATH-IM02, and I'm really impressed by it's sound quality, however I realized that the IEM pretty much only sounds good on mobile phones.. I have tried it on my laptop, Nexus 7 2012, PC, and a audio interface rated 32 ohms and it sounded very weak on them.
I tried the IEM on a LG Optimus 2x, HTC One M7, LG G2 and Galaxy Note 2, and it sounded good on all of those mobile phones.
Is this because of the higher output impedance of those mentioned players? Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?
Use an amp.
Ahh... Well I'm actually on budget mode now.. But would a cheap amp like FiiO E6 do the job?
I have an E5 and just tried it; it does help a lot.
EDIT: It actually helps with soundstage and bass on my Nexus 5 too. If you have an android phone, download viper4android and enable viper bass, and set as parameters: natural bass;80Hz;11.0dB. The sound is pretty great.
I just got confirmation from Audio Technica US, they are indeed have a listing on Amazon US selling ATH-IM03 and IM02 from an official authorized US source, fulfilled by Amazon and shipped from US location: http://www.amazon.com/Technica-ATHIM03-Balanced-In-Ear-Headphones/dp/B00FWGU0OI and http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATHIM02-Balanced-Headphones/dp/B00FWGU0ES/
Those Amazon listings have dozens of sellers from Japan, so you have to be very careful which one you click. As you know, though it will be a little bit cheaper to get IM03 or IM02 from Japan, AT US will not service them under warrantyPlus, you know how much hassle it is to deal with returns if you get a defective product with a seller being over-seas.
An additional $177 for one additional balanced armature speaker in the IM-03 compared to the IM-02.
That's a price to pay to go from analytical dual driver tuning to musical/balanced w/bass triple driver tuningOh yeah, and you get a bigger case
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Liking the IM03. Was not able to get a seal with UE900 tips. Best so far are unknown tips penonaudio included when I bought some Pistons. Red and black.
Why is the case so large? Looking for something a bit smaller for travel. A bit larger would fit the dx90 also.
How would you describe the difference in frequency response between the IM-02 and IM-03. I'm not interested in vague words such as musical but useful information gained from sine wave sweeps such as "area between 6-10Khz is elevated on the IM-02 versus IM-03".
Would you say you were buying a different sound, rather than upgrading, when considering the IM range? This seems to apply to this series more than any other I've heard of. I'm not trying to criticise your analysis, I'm genuinely curious..