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premium imem video the edotic er4 PT
contrasts sharply with the i8s that I
looked at last time where the i8s are targeted at consumers with their basey
sound signature great comfort and stylish look the er4s are targeted at
professionals with emphasis on high accuracy sound and exceptional noise
isolation that's not to say however that general consumers can't enjoy an
accurate in your monitor as much as a professional for many purists out there
hearing the music the way the artist intended for it to be heard is more
important than pumping up bass or playing around with EQ dials to make it
sound better so with that in mind here we go inside the plastic hard box that
has everything inside of it we find an accessory package that really looks more
like equipment you'd find in an audiologist office than something you'd
expect to find in a consumer product box uh everything appears to be designed
with practicality in mind but you do get a lot of stuff with the er4 pts
including a shirt clip an airline adapter an 8 in to4 in adapter two sets
of large and one set of small three flange ear tips two sets of glider ear
tips two sets of medium foam ear tips tips a filter removal tool and four
filters to help smooth frequency response and prevent wax buildup an er4
PT to er4s adapter cable that improves
sound accuracy but also increases impedance so it might not be optimal to
use with your phone or other MP3 player a user's manual a warning and finally oh
yeah a carrying case and finally the earphones themselves there is one more
thing and it's actually a little bit unique this is a signed Channel matching
compliance graph showing that one of adom modic technicians personally
checked to ensure that both of the balanced armature acq drivers behaved
the same way than signed off on it before packaging your product and
shipping it to you a very nice touch now
it's time to focus on the earphones themselves they look like a piece of
equipment and feel like a piece of equipment the rnl indicators are simply
a red dot for the one that goes in your right ear which is is fine if you're in
a recording studio but a pain in the butt if you're on a dimly lit bus each
earphone has a unique uh thin Twisted
wire lead that goes back to a bulky
heavy join and then a much thicker heavier 4ot wire well the overall length
is 4 feet but the the gauge of the wire is much thicker here um it's unfortunate
that it's so long and heavy because particularly with the three flange tips
which sounded best for me the weight pulled on my ears in a way that was
pretty uncomfortable the included clip is an inelegant solution at best and
instead I opted to wear them upside down and run the wires over my ear like this
they aren't designed to be worn that way but it worked reasonably well and saved
me at least once from having the flanges uncomfortably jerked from my ears
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
going to beat around the bush these are the most uncomfortable earphones I've
ever used your mileage may vary of course
but when the user's manual simply says moistening eases insertion for the
flanges that's a pretty strong indicator that edotic is aware of the situation
Lube up because you ain't going to like it much otherwise uh the foam ear tips
don't hurt but like all foamier tips they wear out relatively quickly so
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
option for me either because they don't seal as well so their noise isolation
isn't as good as the others and the base response is not as strong as the
others okay so thanks Linus they feel
like a tool rather than a toy and they're uncomfortable so why do they
have the right to exist do they have any redeeming qualities the answer is yes
let's start with their passive noise isolation I don't have the equipment to
validate their 35 to 42 dbel claim so all I can do is describe the experience
for you once you get them inserted they're so deep that even yawning
doesn't affect the sound the feeling of your surroundings shifts it's like
walking from a crowded Ski Lodge out into an empty Forest after a fresh
snowfall the entire world just has a muffled and subdued feel to it and the
only thing left is the sound of your own thoughts except instead of it being your
own thoughts that you hear it's your music without needing to turn up the
volume to compensate for environmental noise everything sounds as crystal clear
as if the sounds were being beamed by Magic into your head every instrument is
easily discernible from the others to agree that I've never experienced before
the difference in Clarity is noticeable when I compare the er4 pts to the entire
rest of my stable of headphones which includes several other products in this
price range and more interestingly the
difference is noticeable with sources that ranged from listening to music on
YouTube all the way to uncompressed files of songs that I know very very
well there are some caveats though with
accurate sound comes to some people boring sound there is no emphasis on
bass to speak of and emotic has optimized for isolation rather than
sound stage one of the things that stood out to me about the ie80s was how
relatively open they sounded for an IM whoops there goes my phone the er4s
take me right back to that traditional between your ears sound that is
characteristic of IEM something else I noticed was that switching between the
i8s and the er4s felt like Chang in the lights in a room from from a warm glow
to a a Cool Glow either is fine once I'm
used to it and after 15 minutes I'm completely adjusted but side by-side
listening tests were actually a little bit unpleasant because the sound
signatures of these two products contrast so starkly going from I80 to
er4 makes the er4 sound Bland and uninteresting while going from the er4
to the i8s make them sound basey and muddled by comparison
so what's the takeaway from all of this bottom line they're just not comfortable
enough for me to use them as my daily drivers during the day the heavy cable
was a bigger inconvenience for me than I actually expected and when they snag on
something accidentally they're very painful even with them wrapped around my
ears and at night uh not being able to tell left from right without turning on
a flashlight is a pain and then the fact that I normally sleep in my IM IMS which
is not happening with these is a showstopper as well but they weren't
designed to be daily drivers for general consumers just look at the website I
mean it's functional sure you can get replacement parts order custom ear molds
for 100 bucks which is actually really cool custom ear molds will fit you
perfectly so Comfort problem goes away and you can learn about the product but
it looks like a hearing aid store or something they're catering to a
different crowd and comfort it aside for me they sound amazing I could listen to
them with zero fatigue for hours and I have so if the objective is not to be
fashionable but rather to get precise sound delivered to your eardrums with as
little outside interference as possible then the er4s get a big thumbs up from
me thank you for watching let me know in the comments or better yet on the lineus
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flat sound signature or a more fun signature knowing that you're not
getting you know the music delivered to you the way that the artist necessarily
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