Any $100 IEM recommendations?

[Voltron]

I can't believe I am starting one of these threads, but I am trying to help somebody find a $100 IEM and all I have is Innerfidelity as a guide.  They do not have many new reviews and the wall of fame entries are at least a year old.  Anything to add, Head-Case?

[luvdunhill]

JH13

[Hopstretch]

Wife really likes her RHA MA750. Amazon Warehouse Deals has them for about $100.

Edited October 5, 2015 by Hopstretch

[MexicanDragon]

I can't believe I am starting one of these threads, but I am trying to help somebody find a $100 IEM and all I have is Innerfidelity as a guide.  They do not have many new reviews and the wall of fame entries are at least a year old.  Anything to add, Head-Case?

What a way to make a 25,000th post!

n00b

**BRENT**

[blessingx]

The HiFiMAN RE-400, on the wall, is supposed to hit above its price point, but according to Amazon reviews seems to continue HiFiMan's reliability issues. An oldie, but a goodie - I pointed someone to the Ety HF series last week. 

[robm321]

^ I owned the RE-400. Kind of sucked TBH. The Ety HF series is a winner though. That's all I know in the price range. 

[skullguise]

I echo the Ety's.  The sound is good/very good on most of their models, and the triple flange tips fit well in my narrow ear canals.  Many other IEM's don't fit well so don't sound good (IME - In My Ears).  Not sure of the Altec Lansing OEM'd Ety's (I think they were a copy of the ER-6's) are still available, but my wife loved them.

[mikeymad]

n00b indeed....

 

If I was looking, I would have to take a serious look at the HF5  But I have always liked the ETY sound.

http://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones/hf5.html

About $115 most of the time on the Amazons

[shellylh]

I would also get the Etymotic HF5 at that price point.  I got them for Tim and they sounded pretty good (not as good as the ER4P but not that far off).

Edited October 5, 2015 by shellylh

[shipsupt]

Well hyped elsewhere, but pretty good for just under $40, the Zero Audio Carbon Tenore.

http://www.amazon.com/AUDIO-ear-stereo-headphone-Tenore-ZH-DX200-CT/dp/B0093VVP0Q

 

 

[Torpedo]

If you can stretch the budget a bit, I'd recommend these

[shellylh]

The Kilpsch X10 are great and very very comfortable.  The first pair I had for a couple of years but sold them to a friend. I bought a second pair at some point and they were very poorly made (they cut in and out on both ears if you wiggled them).  I read that a lot of the ones made at that time also had these problems.  I would not but another pair unless I knew for sure that they fixed these problems.

[justin]

seconding the klipsch but i don't know if there's anything better these days

[Leonardo Drummond]

Never expected to see such a post from you, Al! 

Apart from the good suggestions already given (X10 and MA750, although I felt the latter had a treble spike that could be annoying sometimes) I'd give the Audio-Technica IM50 some serious thought. It's very natural and musical, kind of like an HD650, though a bit dark. And it has a removable cable, which to me is a big plus at this price point. The IM70 also fits in your budget, but I haven't heard that one.

[jvlgato]

I like my Ety HFs.

[Mister X]

Another vote for the HF-5s.

 

 

[CarlSeibert]

My brother-in-law had the Shures at that price point for a while. (SE 215 I think) and they sounded pretty good. Shure-ish nice midrange.

[Dusty Chalk]

Etymotic ER-6i.

[shellylh]

^They don't make those anymore.

[blessingx]

What about the Wicked In-Ear Deuce? 

"I hooked these earbuds up to my computer which has an altec lansing speaker system built in. I got a special computer at WalMart. The earbuds sounded incredible. During one YouTube video, the soundtrack had a buzzing ringing sound which was part of the musical instrumentation of the musical interlude. It sounded like it was the buzzing of a thousand bees buzzing in the center of my head. A warm cosmic throb in my skull.

These headphones are to me, the best earbuds I have ever heard. Well, the last earbuds I heard were 80s style general issue dollar store earbuds. This is one of the new generation hip hop high techno earbuds for skateboarders and shredders."

 

[Dusty Chalk]

^They don't make those anymore.

:*(

[shellylh]

The HF5 sound better than the ER6i IMO though (although it's been a long time since I have owned the ER6i). 

[Dusty Chalk]

Thanks, will keep that in mind when I need new earbuds.

Sorry, Al, can't recommend what I'm currently using, as they were a lot more than $100, IIRC.  I think I got them on ... purk's (?) recommendation from the ... Hifiman store (again: ??) before they sold their own.

Edited October 6, 2015 by Dusty Chalk

[justin]

What about the Wicked In-Ear Deuce? 

"I hooked these earbuds up to my computer which has an altec lansing speaker system built in. I got a special computer at WalMart. The earbuds sounded incredible. During one YouTube video, the soundtrack had a buzzing ringing sound which was part of the musical instrumentation of the musical interlude. It sounded like it was the buzzing of a thousand bees buzzing in the center of my head. A warm cosmic throb in my skull.

These headphones are to me, the best earbuds I have ever heard. Well, the last earbuds I heard were 80s style general issue dollar store earbuds. This is one of the new generation hip hop high techno earbuds for skateboarders and shredders."

 

i don't want a wicked in-ear deuce in my ear

[Dusty Chalk]

You don't want a buzzing ringing sound to sound like a thousand bees in the center of your head, just like it's supposed to sound?  They make it sound like a good thing.

Someone listens to the same kind of music like I do.

Edited October 6, 2015 by Dusty Chalk