Greetings wizards; I seek help.
I've used two types of earbud to keep my ears happy for the past 10 years. Sony's MDR-E828LP has proven king for black/death/power metal together with some mixed metal&electronic(like Celldweller), although it can't handle 90s metal demos (like Crematory from Sweden); meanwhile Sennheiser's MX-365 has proven just a little less capable in those specific fields but is king in everything else including heavy EDM, classical and ambient tracks. Two weeks ago one of my 365s broke and I realised that I'd miscounted my spares and only had one pair left. Went to Ebay thinking that there would be plenty... and I was wrong - not even one was being sold and now it seems that goes for all internet sellers, I don't understand it. But I don't want to fix the economy I just want my 365 sound back
:'(
Now I'm not petty about this sort of thing; if another pair of earbuds out there can produce the exact same sound as the 365 then I will love them just as much. But my quest in the past few misterable days has failed. The sound of Sennheiser's MX-375 was distant and with some heavier music clearly muffled/fuzzy. The sound of the basic albeit fiesty JVC HA-F14 did manage to get close to the ear and also delivered some of the distinct sounds for each instrument (for example playing 'YellowHeads - Gliese' you could hear the bouncy tones from the bass-pedal thumps from 04:00; but the music balance failed as did the soundscape. The sound of the Edifier H180 (which I think is a clone from a Philips bud) attempts to mirror the 365's soundscape and does get close to the ear but the overall sound is fuzzy, kind of like they're trying too hard. Due to arrive someday soon is an MX-350 but whilst maybe the engineers at Sennheiser could apply the same magic brush to all the MX earbuds, I'm not getting too excited because I've no idea whether the specs are the same; some websites suggest that, just like the 365, the 350 has 32ohm + 110db + 20-20.000khz but other websites say they are 16ohm with 18-21.000khz which presumably could make the sound very different.
As you can tell by now, I'm no wizard. So please, if any of you out there have owned a 365 and are familiar with the picture I'm trying to paint here (clear and strong soundscape, sound is close to ear, can easily distinguish between the instruments, not muffled/fuzzy, basically godlike) then could you let me know whether a) no-one made another pair quite like these because they were naturally costly but just not popular enough given they were 'only' an earbud and earbuds were being phased out in the 2010s in favour of those canal-invading things so bad luck re the timing, or b) there is an earbud out there which is a sister, or a successor to the 365. I've heard good things about the MX500 and there are some of those floating around on Ebay for granted higher prices but not unreasonable prices; I'd be happy to try them out but the 500 and 365 shells look so different, including the shower head style, that I'm presuming Sennheiser was trying something different with the two of them. But again I'm open to teaching on these matters.
Many thanks for any help,
Mark
I've used two types of earbud to keep my ears happy for the past 10 years. Sony's MDR-E828LP has proven king for black/death/power metal together with some mixed metal&electronic(like Celldweller), although it can't handle 90s metal demos (like Crematory from Sweden); meanwhile Sennheiser's MX-365 has proven just a little less capable in those specific fields but is king in everything else including heavy EDM, classical and ambient tracks. Two weeks ago one of my 365s broke and I realised that I'd miscounted my spares and only had one pair left. Went to Ebay thinking that there would be plenty... and I was wrong - not even one was being sold and now it seems that goes for all internet sellers, I don't understand it. But I don't want to fix the economy I just want my 365 sound back
:'(Now I'm not petty about this sort of thing; if another pair of earbuds out there can produce the exact same sound as the 365 then I will love them just as much. But my quest in the past few misterable days has failed. The sound of Sennheiser's MX-375 was distant and with some heavier music clearly muffled/fuzzy. The sound of the basic albeit fiesty JVC HA-F14 did manage to get close to the ear and also delivered some of the distinct sounds for each instrument (for example playing 'YellowHeads - Gliese' you could hear the bouncy tones from the bass-pedal thumps from 04:00; but the music balance failed as did the soundscape. The sound of the Edifier H180 (which I think is a clone from a Philips bud) attempts to mirror the 365's soundscape and does get close to the ear but the overall sound is fuzzy, kind of like they're trying too hard. Due to arrive someday soon is an MX-350 but whilst maybe the engineers at Sennheiser could apply the same magic brush to all the MX earbuds, I'm not getting too excited because I've no idea whether the specs are the same; some websites suggest that, just like the 365, the 350 has 32ohm + 110db + 20-20.000khz but other websites say they are 16ohm with 18-21.000khz which presumably could make the sound very different.
As you can tell by now, I'm no wizard. So please, if any of you out there have owned a 365 and are familiar with the picture I'm trying to paint here (clear and strong soundscape, sound is close to ear, can easily distinguish between the instruments, not muffled/fuzzy, basically godlike) then could you let me know whether a) no-one made another pair quite like these because they were naturally costly but just not popular enough given they were 'only' an earbud and earbuds were being phased out in the 2010s in favour of those canal-invading things so bad luck re the timing, or b) there is an earbud out there which is a sister, or a successor to the 365. I've heard good things about the MX500 and there are some of those floating around on Ebay for granted higher prices but not unreasonable prices; I'd be happy to try them out but the 500 and 365 shells look so different, including the shower head style, that I'm presuming Sennheiser was trying something different with the two of them. But again I'm open to teaching on these matters.
Many thanks for any help,
Mark
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