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I'm sorry what I must have had something in my ear did you just say $800 yes I did and oh look I did have something in my ear sennheiser sent me a pair of ie8 hundreds they're their top tier in-ear designed and exclusively manufactured in Germany and at eight hundred US dollars MSRP they're the most expensive earphones that I have ever used but could they possibly be worth the price tag I guess we'll find out won't we mass drop is currently featuring the MSI GTX 1080 armored 8g check it out and other drops at the link in the video description I already know what you're thinking at that price they better come with a palm-sized string quartet plays covers of your favorite show tunes on command am i right well you can think that but you'd be completely wrong because they totally don't in fact here's an observation that I've made about accessories in general the higher end you go it feels like the fewer things get included I mean have you ever shopped for a red camera I mean of course you haven't unless is that Marcus out there anyway if you had you'd know that the cost of the camera body is a hilariously small part of what you'll spend on the overall setup that you actually need to use the damn thing so following along those lines while much less expensive earphones like the NuForce lineup from Optima that I reviewed recently check that out here include things like a waterproof carrying case a backup cloth case two nice cables with stylish braiding or a microphone inline if you prefer and a complete set of silicone ear tips with a couple comfy comply foam ones thrown in the eye 800s include a cheesy al biet leather carrying case some silicone ear tips and a cleaning tool be still my heart in Sennheiser's defense the included ear tips address a problem that i've yet to find a solution for with the IE 80s my daily drivers the way that wax guns up the mesh eventually they have separate from the usual protective mesh covering the transducer a driver a second mesh filter built right into the silicon ear tip cool unfortunately this proprietary approach has resulted in very limited options when it comes to third party ear tips from comply or others damnit sennheiser though as someone who is extremely careful with my ear tips and who prefers the sound and fit of silicone tips I don't personally find this as big of an issue as some users who have gone as far as to perform surgery on other ear tips that they had lying around to try to use them with their eye 800s no no the one that I'm more upset about is the lack of a removable cable a killer feature of the IE ATS for people like me who wear their IMS 10 plus hours a day often while sleeping this feature has allowed me to first replace my stock cable that failed with a new one then by the IE 8i inline microphone as an upgrade that lets me use my IE 80s as a hands-free I mean sure the stock cable is Kevlar reinforced or whatever and is less likely to fail and you can replace part of the cable with a pricey first party microphone one but it plugs into a sub mini or a two and a half millimeter jack that's positioned lower than the ideal microphone placement and the last 8 inches or so is soldered to the earphone making repairs to that part of the cable very time-consuming costly or both let's move on though to what the cable is attached to on the inside of the in-ears sennheiser boasts a number of technological breakthroughs from the 7 millimeter extra wideband dynamic transducer to the dampened 2 chamber absorbers to the oval-shaped ear adapters to the scratch resistant ceramic housing but the i8 hundreds just don't look very comfortable do they I'm used to the native over the ear cable design of their little cousin the 2 weird ports on the back seem like they'd stick out and push the whole thing too far into your ear if you were to lie down on your side while wearing them and whatever they might say about scratch resistance the housings also look like they'll be kind of cold and hard against the inside of your ear all of that however fortunately is wrong I've been pretty critical of this product so far and if you're going to charge this much for something it kind of comes with the territory but I can't complain about the comfort even my wife who generally hate seniors said about them they just fit worn cabled down with the smallest ear tips I do find them a bit heavy due to that connector at the cable split but I had no difficulty keeping them in place even with one side dangling aha and I discovered that though it shortens the already short cable a bit bringing the cable over the year allow significantly deeper insertion for a more secure fit more noise isolation improved micro phonics that sound that the cable can make that you hear in the inners and for me anyway and ever so slightly more pleasing sound signature with a bit more fum which I guess leads us finally then to the listening experience there I mean come on who didn't see this coming far and away the best I've ever heard highs are crystal clear and wonderfully detailed to the point where flaws in low bitrate files and the mastering of the top-40 trash that I normally listen to become much more apparent than with anything else I've ever listened to mids are not over powerful but I mean that in a good way there's no veil for the vocals to fight through but I don't feel like the rest of the music is being compromised either leading us to base where yeah they're not the most neutral true to the original recording earphones on the market I mean if you really wanted that you'd have a pair of a domotic er 4 series already anyway there is definitely some base emphasis but I mean that in the best possible way with a shocking amount of kick in the lower range with fantastic control these are really fun to listen to and I don't normally talk about imaging much but the eye 800s gave me a new appreciation for this characteristic in a couple of ways especially when worn cabled down for musical recording pinpointing where on the stage the pianist was located was pretty cool but and I discovered this totally by accident the open sound of these earphones also made VR better most in ears feel like you're listening to something that's going on inside your head kind of inside your skull but the eye 800 pound more like you're listening to something in the room around you so they're noticeably more immersive feeling in this particular application leading us finally to answer that original question are they worth it don't be stupid I mean if you can't afford to blow nearly a grand after taxes on a pure luxury item one that has inherent lifespan limiting flaws that I'd love to see addressed in an i 801 or something then no they're not worth it but I sure wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers either you know who else I wouldn't check out a bed for eating crackers crunchyroll they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like rezero or orange wow great 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