I have been very pleasantly surprised by the Philips Fidelio S2

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In Reply to: Decent sounding but not $$$ phones for an iPhone 4, w / wo mike. posted by Timbo in Oz on April 16, 2014 at 01:12:10:

IEMs...

Perhaps a tad shy of the top Shures, and not quite as detailed as the 4-driver Westones but a lot less expensive than either, and it has a pleasant cohesiveness to the presentation which I like. At that general price range (plus or minus 50%), I could not find a closed can or IEM (I needed to avoid too much leakage) which was as good. Going to 3x-4x the price, I could find better.

I find it does remarkably well on classical, piano, and the 'delicate' passages, and has seriously great depth/detail in orchestral passages.

Works with my iPhone4. Works better with my ADL X1 DAC driven with a digital output from the iPhone.

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Topic - Decent sounding but not $$$ phones for an iPhone 4, w / wo mike. - Timbo in Oz 01:12:10 04/16/14 (7)

RE: Decent sounding but not $$$ phones for an iPhone 4, w / wo mike. - Nirmala 12:05:05 04/30/14 (0)

For classical listener - flatmap 11:02:31 04/18/14 (1)

RE: For classical listener - triodesteve 08:40:29 04/20/14 (0)

I have been very pleasantly surprised by the Philips Fidelio S2 - travisty 01:30:49 04/17/14 (0)

RE: Decent sounding but not $$$ phones for an iPhone 4, w / wo mike. - HD Audio 00:24:05 04/17/14 (1)

+1 - jec01 06:42:13 04/17/14 (0)

HiFiMan RE-400 - genungo 15:40:08 04/16/14 (0)

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I have been very pleasantly surprised by the Philips Fidelio S2 - travisty 01:30:49 04/17/14 (0)

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