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mirage

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  1. Looking to sell my underutilized Zune 80 for $250.

     

    Includes full original packaging with unused earphones and invisible shield (applied).

     

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    Will provide 7 days personal warranty (not applicable for user damage).

     

    To deal at amk over weekends or sat at dhoby ghaut, thx.


  2. Shure e3c, presumably out of warranty but well maintained, comes with cleaning tool and hardcase.

    Wires/buds condition are all in good condition, no signs of fraying or anything like that.

    Excellent isolation is all I can comment on these iems. Asking for $120.

     


  3. I don't think any of the fault here is on Jaben and Wilson. He never said that the customs were made by Westone. When i asked him who made them when I got my impressions done, he did not say Westone. Simply, what happened is a customer got the customs, thought it was a UM56 or a "Custom One Off" and described it to others as a such. Stereo Electronics investigated and created the announcement.

     

    Did Jaben or Stereo do anything wrong? No, they did not, in any way you look at it, lie.

     

    Was Stereo's announcement unethical? In my opinion, no. They were simply telling the public that not all custom earmolds are UM56's.

     

    This is possibly the most sensible, unbiased post in this whole thread.

     

    If I were to read the review and come to realise that they weren't in fact um56s, I would have the impression that they are fakes too, and I believe that this was the situation under which SE made the post warning about imitations. If anything we should ask why was this fact of third party moulds "made for the um2s" is not clearly communicated in the first place. The issue is not in selling third party products (or mass order whatever you call it or whoever is conducting it, dealer or not) but in the intentional or unintentional misrepresentations that result in selling these products.

     

    From a third person neutrall party perspective, SE did a service to us consumers in clearing up the wrong assumptions of the reviewer. That is all to the matter.

     

    If anything constructive can come out of this, it would be a comparison of the different type of earmoulds, which is what I had been expecting reading so far into this thread. We are, afterall looking for the best bang for the buck. And if some of you flamers here haven't realised it yet, your actions here aren't exactly helping Jaben's image, good intentions notwithstanding.


  4. Nearing 2 years old and I can't remember the exact date of purchase anyway.

    In good condition and with Shures' thick wires and sturdy build I'm sure it can stilll

    last for quite a while.

     

    Only comes with the current medium sized soft flex tips which are used,

    the carrying case as well as cleaning tool. Thinking of selling for $150 as I'm

    considering going back to a sony e888 as an IEM can get inconvenient at times.

     


  5. But few good models to none left with a simple bnW navigatable screen

     

    I'd love an iRiver H120/140 for this

     

    Yup, I don't think I can ever find another player quite like my H140.

    Hence I'm currently in the process of souping up my player big time since

    I'm planning to keep it for years to come. :wub:


  6. im using pa2v2 as amp and thinking to get supermacro 4 in the near future.

     

    i nvr tried running from the source itself since i got my amp,sounds cant compare n anti lousy quality now :P

     

    Source > Amp > Headphone = Iaudio/Ipod > Pa2v2 > Headphone

     

    Not sure where the transport go in that chain above but your source is still the same whether you connect it to the amp or not. Amp only amplifies whatever your source outputs. Can consider adding a dac if you wish to stick to the ipod and/or a quality non portable amp to match your choice headphones.


  7. Personally I find the quality between 128 and 192 and up bitrates to be very obvious even without using any fancy equipment. Hence I'm wondering if there's a lot of difference between between mp3s and the loseless formats like FLAC using higher ended headphones.

     

    Does anyone here use phones like senn 650/ms2i/beyer 880/akg k701 to listen to mp3s assuming that they are well encoded?

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