I honestly haven't read much of other people's impressions of these and I wasn't going to post any of mine. But after what happened this morning as I am about to leave for work, I feel compelled to say something.
I have 2 brand new clips here with the same music on them. I decided to A/B these Sony's with the TF10s I have. Just to see if they were almost as good as the UE's which would make them a great buy. I hae posted before that I recommend using the TF10's with soft silicon tips and not comply. Then I tried the Ts series which are the round shorter tips that don't seem to absorb as much sound. So these are on the TF10's at the moment.
I just listened down the list which ended up being all the songs that have numbers for titles. This included some Dave Mathews live, John Meyer, a matchbox 20 song, van halen.
All I can say, with what I just heard, sadly enough the MH1 beat out the TF10 in nearly every way. Not by a landslide and it took me a while to figure out which ones I liked better until i started analyzing one detail at a time.
Comfort -- honestly the MH1 fits my ears perfectly with the sstock tips. TF10 we all know have comfort issues.
Just a quick description of the sound:
Comparing the MH1 to the TF10 i found the bass to have better texture, I earlier mentioned I immediately covered the bass ports on the MH1.
Male voices are rendered slightly better with the MH1. I found that the TF10 has a very very thin veil on things like high hats and in the highs. Detail was better with the MH1 and to my ears they produce a more natural sounding midrange and highs. Just by a hair.
The most obvious difference is the cable. The microphonic cable is by far inferior to even the stock TF10 cable.
Anyway I am not going to say much more. I don't think it is a fair comparrison until I put the silicon tips back on the TF10 but it sure was interesting. The foam could account for the veiled sound I described above (or maybe not, I guess I will find out later tonight).
All I can say is before you guys had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. Wasn't expecting that.
For sure this IEM compares to the sound of the 100 to 300 dollar range and exceeds some IMO. I don't really care about putting a dollar value on them but they sure sound good.
Again I havent' read a lot of other impressions on these on the thread yet. I did see the OP a couple weeks ago which is what inspired me to order them. So I am not sure if people are getting the same thing out of these that I am. For all i know mine are broken and sound better than they should..