audiofan4life
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Haven't checked back until now and haven't read the posts since that time. Despite some rough comments received, I would like to thank those who offered possible reasons for my poor experience. I had gotten a return number and packed them up when I thought more on everyone's comments. So I pulled them out last night and started over trying to get a better seal to my ear canals. It took a lot of experimenting and a seal was finally obtained, but only by having a small foam tip and using my fingers to hold the back part of the IEM'S with just the right pressure and angle. Don't know if my particular ear "geometry" is difficult to match up, but I as yet can't release my fingers from the GR07's and not lose the optimum seal.
So I need your advice. Has anyone had a custom mold made for this or other VSonics before? If so, do you think this is best way to go ? That is, would this eliminate the effect of difficult shape, angles, and sizes of inner and outer ears? If so, I'd appreciate recommendations of specifically a company that would do a good job of this..
Another thought. There's this blog about making some crude silicone plugs DIY style and imbedding the IEM'S. http://www.howtogeek.com/57481/how-to-make-custom-silicone-ear-molds-for-your-in-ear-monitors/. I know, it doesn't sound like a good long term solution, but before committing a good bit of cash to custom molds, I thought I'd try it. If they get a good seal even when I'm working out (the real intended use I have for them), then I'd immediately opt for permanent custom molds. Your thoughts?
Now, as far as my impressions with "just right" seal. I liked them a whole lot. The sound stage was enormously wide and quite deep. Instruments and vocals were well placed and true to the recording compared to my system, which is Audio Aero CD player with triode outputs, ARC ref 5 preamp, ARC classic 120 monoblocks and Spendor A9 speakers. This is just to give perspective to my own preference of sonic character or sound signature as they say. So far I would also say that on some source material the overall balance was very, very good if a little bright in the upper frequencies. But the brightness is subjective, and i must add that it did not create any negative impression of the overall performance Bass was very solid , tight, and extended for something this small. How does that work, anyway? Lastly, and obviously I need to listen more as they continue breaking in, it seems they reveal imperfections in the recording rather strongly. Particularly on female vocals that there was a bit of a harsh edge in some recordings and particularly streaming Internet radio. Made my ears cringe a little and I wouldn't want to listen for long to those. But on most material of good quality the sound was open, detailed, natural timber without any hint of harsh edge. Last, on some recordings there's still breakup occurring in strong bass passages, such as bass guitar in "The Well" by Jennifer Warnes. I was able to calm it down by turning volume down to little lower level, but it wasn't that high to begin with. Again adjusting pressure on the IEM'S seem to also affect the volume at which bass distortion occurred. Perhaps some here have this experience or ideas on cause?
Appreciate any slack you could cut an IEM newby, relatively
. Especially would appreciate ideas about custom molds for the GR07's.
So I need your advice. Has anyone had a custom mold made for this or other VSonics before? If so, do you think this is best way to go ? That is, would this eliminate the effect of difficult shape, angles, and sizes of inner and outer ears? If so, I'd appreciate recommendations of specifically a company that would do a good job of this..
Another thought. There's this blog about making some crude silicone plugs DIY style and imbedding the IEM'S. http://www.howtogeek.com/57481/how-to-make-custom-silicone-ear-molds-for-your-in-ear-monitors/. I know, it doesn't sound like a good long term solution, but before committing a good bit of cash to custom molds, I thought I'd try it. If they get a good seal even when I'm working out (the real intended use I have for them), then I'd immediately opt for permanent custom molds. Your thoughts?
Now, as far as my impressions with "just right" seal. I liked them a whole lot. The sound stage was enormously wide and quite deep. Instruments and vocals were well placed and true to the recording compared to my system, which is Audio Aero CD player with triode outputs, ARC ref 5 preamp, ARC classic 120 monoblocks and Spendor A9 speakers. This is just to give perspective to my own preference of sonic character or sound signature as they say. So far I would also say that on some source material the overall balance was very, very good if a little bright in the upper frequencies. But the brightness is subjective, and i must add that it did not create any negative impression of the overall performance Bass was very solid , tight, and extended for something this small. How does that work, anyway? Lastly, and obviously I need to listen more as they continue breaking in, it seems they reveal imperfections in the recording rather strongly. Particularly on female vocals that there was a bit of a harsh edge in some recordings and particularly streaming Internet radio. Made my ears cringe a little and I wouldn't want to listen for long to those. But on most material of good quality the sound was open, detailed, natural timber without any hint of harsh edge. Last, on some recordings there's still breakup occurring in strong bass passages, such as bass guitar in "The Well" by Jennifer Warnes. I was able to calm it down by turning volume down to little lower level, but it wasn't that high to begin with. Again adjusting pressure on the IEM'S seem to also affect the volume at which bass distortion occurred. Perhaps some here have this experience or ideas on cause?
Appreciate any slack you could cut an IEM newby, relatively
. Especially would appreciate ideas about custom molds for the GR07's.
The cable memory is pointing the plastic ear guide away from my head on my right ear (bad) and pointing the ear guide towards my head on my left ear (good)...
I think this has partly got to do with the shapes of my ears not holding the cables above my ears properly ..
