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premium imem video the edotic er4 PT

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contrasts sharply with the i8s that I

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looked at last time where the i8s are targeted at consumers with their basey

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sound signature great comfort and stylish look the er4s are targeted at

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professionals with emphasis on high accuracy sound and exceptional noise

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isolation that's not to say however that general consumers can't enjoy an

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accurate in your monitor as much as a professional for many purists out there

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hearing the music the way the artist intended for it to be heard is more

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important than pumping up bass or playing around with EQ dials to make it

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sound better so with that in mind here we go inside the plastic hard box that

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has everything inside of it we find an accessory package that really looks more

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like equipment you'd find in an audiologist office than something you'd

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expect to find in a consumer product box uh everything appears to be designed

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with practicality in mind but you do get a lot of stuff with the er4 pts

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including a shirt clip an airline adapter an 8 in to4 in adapter two sets

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of large and one set of small three flange ear tips two sets of glider ear

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tips two sets of medium foam ear tips tips a filter removal tool and four

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filters to help smooth frequency response and prevent wax buildup an er4

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PT to er4s adapter cable that improves

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sound accuracy but also increases impedance so it might not be optimal to

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use with your phone or other MP3 player a user's manual a warning and finally oh

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yeah a carrying case and finally the earphones themselves there is one more

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thing and it's actually a little bit unique this is a signed Channel matching

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compliance graph showing that one of adom modic technicians personally

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checked to ensure that both of the balanced armature acq drivers behaved

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the same way than signed off on it before packaging your product and

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shipping it to you a very nice touch now

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it's time to focus on the earphones themselves they look like a piece of

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equipment and feel like a piece of equipment the rnl indicators are simply

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a red dot for the one that goes in your right ear which is is fine if you're in

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a recording studio but a pain in the butt if you're on a dimly lit bus each

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earphone has a unique uh thin Twisted

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wire lead that goes back to a bulky

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heavy join and then a much thicker heavier 4ot wire well the overall length

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is 4 feet but the the gauge of the wire is much thicker here um it's unfortunate

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that it's so long and heavy because particularly with the three flange tips

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which sounded best for me the weight pulled on my ears in a way that was

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pretty uncomfortable the included clip is an inelegant solution at best and

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instead I opted to wear them upside down and run the wires over my ear like this

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they aren't designed to be worn that way but it worked reasonably well and saved

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me at least once from having the flanges uncomfortably jerked from my ears

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although there was a time when it didn't save me and that was when I decided to wear it that way comfort-wise I'm not

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going to beat around the bush these are the most uncomfortable earphones I've

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ever used your mileage may vary of course

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but when the user's manual simply says moistening eases insertion for the

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flanges that's a pretty strong indicator that edotic is aware of the situation

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Lube up because you ain't going to like it much otherwise uh the foam ear tips

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don't hurt but like all foamier tips they wear out relatively quickly so

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that's not really an option for me I don't want to be ordering new ones all the time and the gliders weren't an

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option for me either because they don't seal as well so their noise isolation

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isn't as good as the others and the base response is not as strong as the

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others okay so thanks Linus they feel

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like a tool rather than a toy and they're uncomfortable so why do they

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have the right to exist do they have any redeeming qualities the answer is yes

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let's start with their passive noise isolation I don't have the equipment to

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validate their 35 to 42 dbel claim so all I can do is describe the experience

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for you once you get them inserted they're so deep that even yawning

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doesn't affect the sound the feeling of your surroundings shifts it's like

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walking from a crowded Ski Lodge out into an empty Forest after a fresh

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snowfall the entire world just has a muffled and subdued feel to it and the

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only thing left is the sound of your own thoughts except instead of it being your

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own thoughts that you hear it's your music without needing to turn up the

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volume to compensate for environmental noise everything sounds as crystal clear

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as if the sounds were being beamed by Magic into your head every instrument is

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easily discernible from the others to agree that I've never experienced before

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the difference in Clarity is noticeable when I compare the er4 pts to the entire

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rest of my stable of headphones which includes several other products in this

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price range and more interestingly the

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difference is noticeable with sources that ranged from listening to music on

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YouTube all the way to uncompressed files of songs that I know very very

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well there are some caveats though with

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accurate sound comes to some people boring sound there is no emphasis on

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bass to speak of and emotic has optimized for isolation rather than

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sound stage one of the things that stood out to me about the ie80s was how

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relatively open they sounded for an IM whoops there goes my phone the er4s

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take me right back to that traditional between your ears sound that is

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characteristic of IEM something else I noticed was that switching between the

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i8s and the er4s felt like Chang in the lights in a room from from a warm glow

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to a a Cool Glow either is fine once I'm

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used to it and after 15 minutes I'm completely adjusted but side by-side

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listening tests were actually a little bit unpleasant because the sound

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signatures of these two products contrast so starkly going from I80 to

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er4 makes the er4 sound Bland and uninteresting while going from the er4

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to the i8s make them sound basey and muddled by comparison

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so what's the takeaway from all of this bottom line they're just not comfortable

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enough for me to use them as my daily drivers during the day the heavy cable

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was a bigger inconvenience for me than I actually expected and when they snag on

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something accidentally they're very painful even with them wrapped around my

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ears and at night uh not being able to tell left from right without turning on

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a flashlight is a pain and then the fact that I normally sleep in my IM IMS which

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is not happening with these is a showstopper as well but they weren't

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designed to be daily drivers for general consumers just look at the website I

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mean it's functional sure you can get replacement parts order custom ear molds

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for 100 bucks which is actually really cool custom ear molds will fit you

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perfectly so Comfort problem goes away and you can learn about the product but

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it looks like a hearing aid store or something they're catering to a

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different crowd and comfort it aside for me they sound amazing I could listen to

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them with zero fatigue for hours and I have so if the objective is not to be

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fashionable but rather to get precise sound delivered to your eardrums with as

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little outside interference as possible then the er4s get a big thumbs up from

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me thank you for watching let me know in the comments or better yet on the lineus

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tech tips Forum which will be linked in the video description if you prefer a

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flat sound signature or a more fun signature knowing that you're not

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getting you know the music delivered to you the way that the artist necessarily

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