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EdinNJ
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Dec 20, 2016
Big difference between noise cancelling and noise blocking. These, with their standard tips and your near average ear canals, will damp noise more than anything other than custom IEMs in full concha silicone. I have one of these and one of their flagship IEMs. I also have full concha and small ear tip custom tips for the Etymotic Research earphones from ACS in New York. With those custom tips, which go WAY deep into my ear canals, and deal with the oddness of my ear canal shape, make these Etys sound way better than anything in the price range.
I don't know any earphone enthusiast who doesn't have two or three Ety ear rigs. Anyone I've connected with has said, if you (separately) get the custom tips, these rise to the level of thousand dollar CIEMs. I've got two sets of them (my job means that most of the time, I have to listen to music on the road) and my Ety earphones, with custom tips, are what I use equally with my CIEMs. And, I listen to these next to my ER4 whatever earphones, and frankly, the difference is in favor of the HF5. Just note - get custom tips. It makes these sound better than hundreds of non-custom IEMs. And will make you into a schemer for more CIEMs.
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