FenderP
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I was listening to my SBs at home this week in a more controlled environment than on a plane, and my impressions are still the same. I'll pop in my IE8s to do an A/B, but the SBs are much more natural sounding to me (but not neutral). I'm sorry james444 doesn't like them, but I also think that your source could also have something to do with it. I'm using my Sony NW-X1060 as well as a NW-A847, and they seem to match it well.
It's probably the same reason I thought the Grado GR-8s sucked - it just didn't have a sound signature I liked nor matched the Sony.
So I think you're wrong, iponderous. Just because james doesn't like them doesn't make them bad. There are SO many impressions here of all kinds of IEMs which are black and white/day and night that it makes you wonder if something is wrong. There isn't. Sometimes people just don't like things or it isn't a match for their systems. Unfortunately, sometimes those mistakes are expensive.
For example, I heard wonderful things about the Arcam CD players. Bought one for over $2k. Hated it. Took a loss on it when I sold it. It was a horrible match for my system at the time, and I didn't like its sound signature. Did that make the Arcam, which was well regarded, a bad player? No.
It's probably the same reason I thought the Grado GR-8s sucked - it just didn't have a sound signature I liked nor matched the Sony.
So I think you're wrong, iponderous. Just because james doesn't like them doesn't make them bad. There are SO many impressions here of all kinds of IEMs which are black and white/day and night that it makes you wonder if something is wrong. There isn't. Sometimes people just don't like things or it isn't a match for their systems. Unfortunately, sometimes those mistakes are expensive.
For example, I heard wonderful things about the Arcam CD players. Bought one for over $2k. Hated it. Took a loss on it when I sold it. It was a horrible match for my system at the time, and I didn't like its sound signature. Did that make the Arcam, which was well regarded, a bad player? No.