DJ_Mittens's Profile

sjonke, I own these headphones and use them all the time. Are you using the rubber earpieces? If so, they're harder to get a good seal with. If using the foam pieces properly, and new ones at that as the older ones lose the seal, you will get an airtight seal and will have significant bass, only rivaled by my Sony MDR-V700's. Poor highs and lack of bass are signs of poor seal and clipping signal. Turn down the volume and verify the seal. If you're certain you're sealing them properly, they may not fit your ears with the regular inserts. Try getting a set of the larger foam inserts and try them. I don't like the flange inserts because they don't get me the same quality of a seal that I do with foam, even though they are reusable. iPod's are more than capable of driving these headphones, because they are very high efficiency; they were made specifically for the iPod. Personally, I love these phones, both with my iBook and my iPod. In fact, with these phones I can really tell how poor the fidelity is on the iBook sound card, so I'm going to be dropping $100 shortly for an M-Audio Transit as replacement. For the price, these are the best phones I've ever used, and I do consider myself a very strong audio enthusiast, if not borderline audiophile. Let us know what Etymotic says about them.