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A post to end all my possible future post about tips[/size]
I shall name this tip combination "Thanatos", because it's Greek and gaudy.
This mark my end for trying new tip combinations and posting them.
Despite what I thought yesterday afternoon I still discovered the last upgrade,
and, well, as you can see it got longer.
If I take a profile picture of this new aberration it will look like some alien
long-blaster from the 50s, and were I to participate in a "longest tip for IE8
competition" this will reign champion for many month to come.
God, Buddha, Allah or someone has looked out for me in my 2 month as a IEM
audiophile, for this tip brought as much improvement as my total 1300+ hr of
burn-in and is evident on other audio source.
My portable source (the sansa m240 1GB, powered by 1 triple-A battery)
now produce sounds that beats what I heard from my laptop headphone
output with a 500 hr IE8 in all areas except resolving/detail, it just don't
have the juice/hardware for that.
I will also blasphemize that this tip will beat custom tips in all area except
microphonic, portability, and isolation as a no-brainer. IEMs and especially
customs simply lack one important thing that headphone and speaker have:
the amount of air between the transducer and those little hairs in the deepest
part of the ear. Ways to ameliorate this obstacle are few, customs fill the
inner part of the ear and work wonders with what little air is left, universal IEMs
especially IE8 were to not seal perfectly for better headstage and clarity.
This tip combination gave air, lots of them, for IE8 to work with and pass the
sound to the inner ear unleaked. The result is simply stunning: you no longer
get the sense of a seal even though this is to be pushed deep for a seal; you
no longer have an imperfect seal yet you still feel that clarity and openess;
you thought your IE8 is at its limit with the hybrids/comply/etc. and this
leave other tips half a football field behind (that's about the radius of the
soundstage I'm experiencing) in any area except portability and isolation.
As a tip gets longer and longer problems do surface, it gets more microphonic,
it isolates less, it's unwieldy to say the least, and it requires more power/
higher volume to work with. But for someone who only has the IE8 and the
sony hybrids this will improve your sound more than anything else you upgrade
by purchase, be it a better DAP, a better LO cable, a better dac or amp.
For those who won't give this a chance can have a good laugh at this
outrageous tip, and maybe keep it to show other people as well. For future
initiates in the church of tips I hope you have the fortune I did to discover
new kinds of tips and push the limit your IEM, have a nice journey.
decay, 19:22 Central USA 06/24/2009
