I have had custom moulds for my Etymotic ER4s for about 20 years. They work well for use on planes.The ER4s are extremely effective, no doubt. Unfortunately I have always found that after 3 hours they start to irritate my ears. They are also very cumbersome to put in and take out, particularly using comply tips which I find pretty much essential. That could be solved by using plastic/rubber/whateverthatmaterialis tips, but then they lose a lot of their isolating properties. Oh, the cost of replacement earwax filters in Canada is also a thing...
Basically, my experience has been that I don't get along will with long periods of wearing earbuds that extend far enough into the ear canal to provide really good reduction of external sound. When I am working at home and need to wear headphones for whatever reason, I will always use cans.
I'm jealous of the custom moulds by the way, it's something I've sort of been eyeing for years. That is an option I am now going to consider as well.
The difference with headphones is accuracy of measurements: there is such small volume of air/shape of your ear that lab measurements may not represent what you hear. This is not a problem with speaker measurements.And if people tend to choose most accurate speakers in blind tests, I don't see any reson why it would be not true with earphones.
Classically trained? I own a pair of M40X and I know they sound a bit different but I've never heard anyone refer to the M50X as having a flat response. The isolation is pretty good though.Being classically trained, owning AKG K240s, Ety ER4-PT, Sony MDR-7506, Senn HD25
I would try AT M50X instead
Ah good to know. I imagine the wood is part of the issue?The Denon and Fostex derivatives don't isolate that well even though they are said to be closed.
What I meant is that if Etymotics were rated as average sounding earphones then half of other earphones included in the test sounded more neutral to listeners than Etymotics.The difference with headphones is accuracy of measurements: there is such small volume of air/shape of your ear that lab measurements may not represent what you hear. This is not a problem with speaker measurements.
Ah good to know. I imagine the wood is part of the issue?
I own a pair of AKG K553 Pro that I had bought from Massdrop ages ago for around $200. I haven't listened to them in a while but I recall them having an overall v shaped sound signature but not overly so. Isolation was good from what I remember. I can pull them out and make an update later. Build quality was really good on em too.See what the available reviews out there say for ones such as the K553 MkII perhaps?
Try the Audio Technica ATH-MSR7, they're slightly bright but not unduly so, have superb resolution, don't look dork-ish and have good passive noise isolation. Easy to drive. Detachable cable, comfort is something you need to try. And they can be found at good discounts. For some reason they're one of those models that seem to fly below most radars and are very under rated.
Try the Audio Technica ATH-MSR7, they're slightly bright but not unduly so, have superb resolution, don't look dork-ish and have good passive noise isolation. Easy to drive. Detachable cable, comfort is something you need to try. And they can be found at good discounts. For some reason they're one of those models that seem to fly below most radars and are very under rated.
If anything, people should be getting the MSR7 instead of the M50x
Yeah really liked the MSR7 when I did get to try it, was a bit on the bright side for my tastes but I thought it was a fantastic buy for the asking price, its not even that much more expensive than the M50x
If anything, people should be getting the MSR7 instead of the M50x
How well does the mic work for speech recognition? I currently use Sennheiser SD Pro 2 with dragon naturallyspeaking, but my workspace will be removing all the walls soon. The SD Pros are on ear and not great at isolating.which boosts the signal for speech recognition use.
With Dragon Medical Pro Individual 15.3 (latest version), recognition is good, not great. For my work, most of which is repetitive, it is close to 100% in Dragon friendly applications. Somewhat less in Thunderbird email, which is not Dragon friendly. The SpeechProductivity [www.speechproductivity.eu ] dictation box add-on is really good for use in network applications (over Citrix for example).How well does the mic work for speech recognition? I currently use Sennheiser SD Pro 2 with dragon naturallyspeaking, but my workspace will be removing all the walls soon. The SD Pros are on ear and not great at isolating.