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Eartips - have a significant impact on an IEM's sound - Would like to fully understand the WHY - please what are the factors involved?

Then the question becomes: “As an aside, what does anyone do with all the wrong sized tips responding IEMs (FR) you collect with iem tips and multi sized FR iem sets?”

My nieces, nephews and sisters all have an endless supply of IEMs (whit their corresponding tips lots of tips) for the foreseeable future :D.
All of them listen daily to music and appreciate a better IEM than the ones supplied with their phone/pc/tablet and the nephews go through IEMs as if they were free :p.
 
They did f***ed up the picture!
This one looks correct more believable :rolleyes:
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Although… I still don’t quite understand their point about the center of gravity. But it’s probably me :)
Now I‘m very much concerned. Is this the expected mount of ear tips?! At least my ear canals won‘t ever take that much of an insertion depth, not even with the smallest available. I‘m a tall guy, hat size is 61cm circumference, and I‘ve never heard any notion on something special with me, when I bought ear protection.

As I feel it, only the tip of the tip shall hug the entrance of the ear canal, and the collar of the tip is to hold it against the outer ear, left side of the „bone“.
 
Now I‘m very much concerned. Is this the expected mount of ear tips?! At least my ear canals won‘t ever take that much of an insertion depth, not even with the smallest available. I‘m a tall guy, hat size is 61cm circumference, and I‘ve never heard any notion on something special with me, when I bought ear protection.

As I feel it, only the tip of the tip shall hug the entrance of the ear canal, and the collar of the tip is to hold it against the outer ear, left side of the „bone“.
I don’t know if there is a definitive, universal, answer—any specialist insight from ASR members?
What you describe is very much how I perceive it for my ear canals. The exception being Etymotic’ super deep insertion IEMs.
I take these pictures as mostly Marketing BS…
 
apologies if off topic...
in pro sound the foam shure sleeves (yellow EAYLF1) are well regarded, preferred for long usage times and the seal is proper.
(compressible foam sleeves become cumbersome if one needs to frequently take headphones off.)
sold as disposable, they can take a few washes.
there are counterfeits on the market.
 
Lol! To stay on topic for a bit at least.

I ordered this ones just out of curiosity knowing they were going to be crappy, they are a bit rigid but after taking out the foam they are not bad at all they fit my ears well, the tip has more or less the shape and bore size of the KBear07, I've been using it for outdoors and because it's a bit more rigid it feels more stable while walking with heavier IEMs.

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Got a link for these please? They look a bit like Zeos' Render tips- foam with silicone outer and core. They can work for me but I need to stay very still or out they pop. Prefer them to pure foam though which I find a bit icky.
 
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