WillingnessNice3033

WillingnessNice3033 t1_iuvysa6 wrote

Reply to comment by be-LazY in I'm afraid of buying any budget IEM by be-LazY

If you're at that point where you're saying that. You probably don't need other iems. You can always demo iems by equing them from your current iems using equalizer APO.

Thats what I did. Crinacle has graphs of most iems I'm looking for. I got to his website. Selected the iem I am listening to (ie600) and then another iem that I think might be better (i did a comparison with um mest mk2)

I can get the difference in db from the graphs and "try" out the iem without owning it, by setting that difference in equalizer APO on my PC.

Thats how I got from etymotics to the ie600. I equed them, then bought them. I felt I really would like a more v-shaped version of the etymotics which the Sennheiser's are.

After doing that I decided it wasn't worth it with the um mest mk2 most probably. It won't give an idea of soundstage etc. but you will get a perfect idea of the tonality of the iem.

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WillingnessNice3033 t1_iuvx6sr wrote

Reply to comment by be-LazY in I'm afraid of buying any budget IEM by be-LazY

Nope. I have heard many iems and have a good idea 90% of how it will sound from the graph. And the ie600 just fits that preference of tonality. I see no reason to get a more expensive iem unless i am able to sample it any my mind changes. Perfectly happy with this and without absolutely needing a higher tier iem. The reason being that the price to performance ratio really goes down as you go further up.

I went from kz ate, to blon bl03 to bqeyz kb 100 to etymotic er2xr to this. Biggest jump was from the 50 usd range to around 150usd range iems. After that, yes technicalities improved. But less often so.

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WillingnessNice3033 t1_iuv48gp wrote

Reply to I'm afraid of buying any budget IEM by be-LazY

I have 3 sets of iems each for a situation: 1. sleep iems (Beyerdynamic beat Byrd) 2. Running/expendable iem (Blon bl03) 3. sit-down-and-listen iem (Sennheiser ie600)

I have many other 20 usd budget chifi iems which are ina box and use when i want to remember how they sound.

But yes the general tendency for me also is to use higher value iem when the situation allows it. Which is why I don't have any new iems after the Sennheiser ie600, not even budget hypes like 7hz zero. I know I won't use them. They don't fill up any use case for me.

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