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Love to see TF10 with new cables, please upload pics
Here you go. I just read through about a hundred of the most recent pages in this thread, and it seems another user had already posted their thoughts on the Custom UE Logitech Cables. He said they were worse than the stock cables, and that he preferred the Westones! Didn't go into any more detail than just that, but I was surprised that he had the exact opposite opinion as mine. Now I'm already getting nervous that my initial listen (overwhelming bass, shrill highs) were actually true...
Anyways, as promised, here are the pics. The first one is the stock cable after I opened it up. Turns out that the end of the earpiece wire was digging into the cables every time it moved, which lead to the way too frequent fraying of the cables near the earpiece.
The second pic shows that I really need to clean my ears more often (sorry for the disgusting earwax), and that the poles on the Custom UE Logitech Cables need to be sanded/filed down before insertion, which I found out after jamming them in with the strength of a thousand horses. There's no way I could pull them back out without damaging the earbuds (saw a bunch of photos of people who had pulled out the sockets entirely while attempting to do so). Makes me wonder what on earth Logitech had designed these for if they were already specifically designated for before September 1, 2010.
So now, I need to decide if getting a portable amp for these is merited. I'm willing to shell out the dough for even a slight improvement in sound quality or soundstage,
but I need to know if amps would actually
worsen the sound from these low-impedance IEMs. I know there was a short discussion about amping them a hundred pages or so ago, but there was nothing conclusive.
Right now I'm lookin at the UHA mkII, C421, and O2.....