[kiteki]

Sorry it was just too funny that the EX600 were hurting your ears and then it was like "back to the ER-4" haha.
 
It's not exactly the most gentle sounding IEM.
 
Don't get me wrong I do really really like the ER-4S sound, and I'll be revisiting it in custom IEM's.

 

[mastershake2393]

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I'm sorry kiteki, but what was humorous about my post? 
 
I know you don't like the etys, but why is it funny that someone else might? 
 

I don't know what he found so humorous about that statement, but I thought myself that it was just a little funny that you thought the EX600's had piercing highs when all of the Etymotic IEM I've tried had much worse (to my ears anyway; IMO)
 
Not to speak for him or anything, but I think that's what he thought was funny...
 

 

[Majin]

i've only heard piercing highs with my ex600 cause of bad recorded songs

 

[rolz]

I don't know what he found so humorous about that statement, but I thought myself that it was just a little funny that you thought the EX600's had piercing highs when all of the Etymotic IEM I've tried had much worse (to my ears anyway; IMO)
 
Not to speak for him or anything, but I think that's what he thought was funny...
 

kiteki is FEMALE


true about recording quality and sibilance. mostly on vocals but i hear it sometimes on instruments like cymbals and electric guitars. i got the cowboy junkies' platinum and gold collection on my DAP and the first track, their rendition of the velvet underground's sweet jane is too sibilant. right when she sings "sweet jane" on the chorus. i would cringe every time!

 

[mastershake2393]

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kiteki is FEMALE

Are you sure? I thought that he just had girls as his avatar... Huh. 
 
Sorry if I offended you kiteki 

 

 

[rolz]

her avatar has a picture of herself wearing the ex600!

sorry m'lady, not too many fair-looking damsels such as yourself around these parts

 

[Anaxilus]

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Are you sure? I thought that he just had girls as his avatar... Huh. 
 
Sorry if I offended you kiteki 

 

It's the same girl lol.  

  All I was taught in the the military was to always look for the Adam's apple.  

 

 

[james444]

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All I was taught in the the military was to always look for the Adam's apple. 

Are you implying the avatar's wearing a turtleneck for a reason?

 

[Anaxilus]

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Are you implying the avatar's wearing a turtleneck for a reason?

Thanks, I'll never look at turtlenecks the same way again.  Thankfully it's warm in California.
 

 

[Varley]

her avatar has a picture of herself wearing the ex600!

sorry m'lady, not too many fair-looking damsels such as yourself around these parts

I don't think that's her because it's a totally different girl to the one in the coat tagged 'kiteki snow'

 

[germe83]

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I don't know what he found so humorous about that statement, but I thought myself that it was just a little funny that you thought the EX600's had piercing highs when all of the Etymotic IEM I've tried had much worse (to my ears anyway; IMO)
 
Not to speak for him or anything, but I think that's what he thought was funny...
 

True, the etymotic iems have a large amount of treble extension, but for some reason, to my ears, they have zero sibilance. The highs in the etys sound like highs in normal listening. On the other hand, it seems like the EX600s have a large amount of sibilance no matter what I listen to. The treble on the EX600 is loud, but it's not very detailed/controlled. I think that's what's causing my problems. Maybe I just have weird ears. 
 

 

[Anaxilus]

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No, I have to agreed that while Etys are certainly not bass heavy IEMs (and I have owned them all), they are not sibilant (well, at least not the BA Etys. Oddly enough, the newer M3/M5s caused some ssssssing when I heard them). So no reason to wonder. People who say Etys are sibilant don't know what they are talking about. Yes, they are analytical and the sound sig is not for everyone. But they are not sibilant.

Oh I've gotten sibilance from the ER4P before for sure.  But that was accentuation of already sibilant tracks like Don Henley singing 'Desperado' from Hell Freezes Over.  A source signature too could emphasize it as well if its on the bright side.  So I have been ear raped by the ER4P and honeslty can't listen to them more than 15 minutes max.  ER4S is no problem.
 

 

[germe83]

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Oh I've gotten sibilance from the ER4P before for sure.  But that was accentuation of already sibilant tracks like Don Henley singing 'Desperado' from Hell Freezes Over.  A source signature too could emphasize it as well if its on the bright side.  So I have been ear raped by the ER4P and honeslty can't listen to them more than 15 minutes max.  ER4S is no problem.
 

Perhaps that's why I detect no sibilance; I use the ER4S model. It just feels like absolute finesse on the top end of those. 
 
I'm still torn about whether to return the EX600s. I honestly love everything about them minus the hot treble. Perhaps I'll just get used to it?

 

[ericp10]

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LOL
 

Are you still in EX600 heaven @ kiteki? 

 

[i2ehan]

I'm pretty sure kiteki's got two hundred and seventy two other priorities at the moment.