DikiDino 0 Report post Posted September 26, 2006 Heard quite a lot of good things about this earphone but mostly no one mentioned the price. I've checked the US site and this dude cost over $500 USD! So after the conversion, it cost around 790sing. Is it true? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DikiDino 0 Report post Posted September 26, 2006 Sorry if i sounds noob. Coz i've never heard there's such expensive IEM arounds. LOL Headphones, yes i understand but IEM... its so small yet so expensive. LOL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
acidboy84 0 Report post Posted September 26, 2006 Sorry if i sounds noob. Coz i've never heard there's such expensive IEM arounds. LOL Headphones, yes i understand but IEM... its so small yet so expensive. LOL Haha.. The 'Ãnverse' law applies. The smaller the thing, the more expensive it is. Actually there is a newer model E500 which is retailing about $8xx. Well there are sme other custom IEM that costs twice of E500. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
absolut 0 Report post Posted September 26, 2006 Thats the "Reccomended Street Price". Due to the introduction of the E500, the street price of the E5 should be about US$300-400 now. The E500 is about $400-500, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Quite a detail review by someone from head-fi on E500. http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showpost.ph...788&postcount=1 Pleasure reading. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Sorry if i sounds noob. Coz i've never heard there's such expensive IEM arounds. LOL Headphones, yes i understand but IEM... its so small yet so expensive. LOL There are even more expensive one. But a headphone sound will win over an IEM sound if u don't mind portability. IEM looks fragile to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
absolut 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2006 (edited) Trust me, Shure earphones are nearly indestructible. Once, I had my E5 hanging out my car door and being dragged along the road. When I noticed after a few K's, I pulled it back in and it still worked perfectly fine... Edited September 27, 2006 by absolut Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nakedtoes 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Trust me, Shure earphones are nearly indestructible. Once, I had my E5 hanging out my car door and being dragged along the road. When I noticed after a few K's, I pulled it back in and it still worked perfectly fine... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
acidboy84 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2006 ' date='27 Sep 2006, 07:43 PM' post='80637'] I have a close friend whose e3c's nozzle got broken 3 times.. In 2 years... SO maybe u guys should try to avoid it, or we are getting a bad production line, who knows? I didn't have any issues with my E3c when I was still using thoes. Well the E4c's have replaceable nozzles so no issues here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Trust me, Shure earphones are nearly indestructible. Once, I had my E5 hanging out my car door and being dragged along the road. When I noticed after a few K's, I pulled it back in and it still worked perfectly fine... Small to me looked fragile. I had my E2C for just less than 3 months giving me intermittent sound off & on problem on one side. Luckily it's still under warranty. Sent back to the service centre, they rewired my earphone for me. Anyway, had already sold it lately. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites