mariowar
500+ Head-Fier
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Well to my headphones are like women, either I like them when I first met them or...........................
It's been a long time since I was so excited about getting a new pair of headphones, well in this particular case earphones. The package arrived on time as always, thanks to Fed EX and Headroom, and the presentation was awesome......it had everything, plugs in different sizes, foams etc, and excellent catalog and of course the magnificentely built E2C, no complaints about it, they are engineer and built to last. Also they have good isolation, not as great as the Etys. I did not have problems with the fit even though I liked the plastic plugs (small size) better than the foamies they could be made of a better (softer) material, silicon maybe like the Sonys 70.
Ok, I tried them with different kinds of music, from Symphonic rock to metal, from blues to progressive rock, from hard rock to very detailed music and the results were the same the bass is as good if not a little bit better than the Etys 4P, believe or not it has plenty of impact. The mids are well balanced but here comes the problem, there's no high end in this earphones, sorry headroom when you said "very detailed highs".........the "s" sound in the vocals is terrible and muffled like my old vertical sonys mdr 34........the cymbals do not sound cristal clear either........I tested it directly from the Panasonic portable cd player and with my Total airhead, and I had no improvement at all, mainly due to the little roll off of the high frecuencies.......
I really think that Shure has to make a difference between this earphones ( E5C) and the upper models which surely have better high end sound but anyway, I won't ever pay more than 400 dollars for a pair of earphones......I'd rather to buy a pair of Etys P.... therefore I'll wait until they solve the microphonic cable inconvinient to consider them, because I need them for jogging and walking.
Conclusion, I'ts sad, I love how the earphones looked, how they did fit and the bass impact without being boomy at all.....but to me detail is the key to listening pleasure. Who knows I migh have got used to the Grado sound but I found the Sennheisers 590 and the Boses Triport with enough detail to love them. And also I found the Koss 50 great......
It's been a long time since I was so excited about getting a new pair of headphones, well in this particular case earphones. The package arrived on time as always, thanks to Fed EX and Headroom, and the presentation was awesome......it had everything, plugs in different sizes, foams etc, and excellent catalog and of course the magnificentely built E2C, no complaints about it, they are engineer and built to last. Also they have good isolation, not as great as the Etys. I did not have problems with the fit even though I liked the plastic plugs (small size) better than the foamies they could be made of a better (softer) material, silicon maybe like the Sonys 70.
Ok, I tried them with different kinds of music, from Symphonic rock to metal, from blues to progressive rock, from hard rock to very detailed music and the results were the same the bass is as good if not a little bit better than the Etys 4P, believe or not it has plenty of impact. The mids are well balanced but here comes the problem, there's no high end in this earphones, sorry headroom when you said "very detailed highs".........the "s" sound in the vocals is terrible and muffled like my old vertical sonys mdr 34........the cymbals do not sound cristal clear either........I tested it directly from the Panasonic portable cd player and with my Total airhead, and I had no improvement at all, mainly due to the little roll off of the high frecuencies.......
I really think that Shure has to make a difference between this earphones ( E5C) and the upper models which surely have better high end sound but anyway, I won't ever pay more than 400 dollars for a pair of earphones......I'd rather to buy a pair of Etys P.... therefore I'll wait until they solve the microphonic cable inconvinient to consider them, because I need them for jogging and walking.
Conclusion, I'ts sad, I love how the earphones looked, how they did fit and the bass impact without being boomy at all.....but to me detail is the key to listening pleasure. Who knows I migh have got used to the Grado sound but I found the Sennheisers 590 and the Boses Triport with enough detail to love them. And also I found the Koss 50 great......