250 is pretty cheap. I paid more than that when you add up what I paid for the ER4P's and the molds separately. Yet still in pretty much all of the monitors I've listened to the Etymotics are about as antiseptic as I've found. I'm a big fan of a very clean very flat response and the ety's are quite amazing at producing that. Many feel that if there isn't a 3 to 6 (or sometimes more) hump in the bottom end they aren't bassy enough but to each his own.
Anyway one other comment is that if you go the route of custom ear molds you won't get as much isolation as you would with the stock ety ear pieces. I've seen this in the numbers but I've also experienced it. I'm not so sure that the foam molds produce the isolation that they claim but I do attest to the fact that the 3 flange silicon tips do a better job than custom molds. Etymotic claims 35dB of isolation with the silicon tips and 42dB of isolation from outside noise with the foam tips. Wish anyone luck pulling that off with active noise cancellation! On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 21:14 -0700, AE4CW wrote: > I second Brett's comments re the use of custom fitted in-ear monitors > (IEMs) > for great isolation and sonic clarity. Properly fitted, they are very > comfortable, provide about 25 dB of external isolation and you hear > exactly > what your receiver is producing. > > I do live sound monitor engineering on a weekly basis and have used a > variety of low, mid and high-end IEMs ($60-$500+) over the years. The > best > price/performance I've found so far is the Live Wires IEMs. They are > not > cheap ($249) but for the money (IMHO) there is nothing better. You > can > check them out here: > http://www.livewiresforyou.com/index.php Live Wires Site _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
