Did you get a Softears Twilight? Looks like Zeos is in love with them
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Zeos loves everything that plays music 
thatās why we love Zeos
Yes indeed. I am testing the Twilights head to head with the Moondrop Illuminations and the Dunu Zen Pros. Iāll be finishing up and writing something about the experience in the next day or two.
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well he has hated things that play music but heās more likely to rip on build/cable than sound quality
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Canāt wait to hear your thoughts. Need to find a single DD for my collection. DM would have been killer if it wasnāt for the fit issue.
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If you like the DM I hear the Sigmot EM500 has something similar
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If youād like to have an effect that lands somewhere in between silicone and regular foam tips, you can use TS-400 shaped foam tips like the ones below. Itās getting hard to find the Comply version because they replaced them with their tsx shapes, but a Chinese brand named Anjirui still makes and sells them on AliExpress. They are one of my favorite tips. Very versatile, comfortable, and significantly less treble attentuation than the longer, more cylindrical traditional foam tip shape from the T and Tx series. The Anjirui version also happenes to be made from some pretty dense slow rebound foam and that seems to help as well, IME.
P.S. These will also cause less of the midbass rise that traditional foams are known for as well.
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Those are actually really cool looking foams, I have to admit. I stopped using foams long ago because they were constantly just falling apart on me and I was so tried of having to buy a new set constantly.
Maybe I should try them again ā¦
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Interesting - do you find the treble on the Hexa harsh? I find it to be nicely done for the most part and while I do EQ down the 3K peak, I can still listen to them sans EQ.
They last longer for me than the cylindrical shapes. I think itās because theyāre easier to insert and remove so you end up putting less stress on the area where the barrel and foam meet which is the most common point of failure for me.
That makes perfect sense, actually. One of my least favorite things about foams, which I totally forgot about until just now, is the ingress - egress of them. For whatever reason, younger me was not patient enough to squish the tips, insert them, wait for it to expand, check seal ā¦
I would usually just throw em in my ears like traditional silicone tips and they would tear a lot.
Is that a hybrid silicone/foam tip?
Like the Sony EP-TC50
Nope, just foam. I have been meaning to try the hybrid tips though. Have you tried them? If so which ones and howād the work out?
Yes, I do have that EP-TC50 tips. I only tried 3 silicone/foam hybrid tips though, and it is by far my favorite.
(the other 2 being the Symbio W and the Sony EP-NI1000)
(check my db)
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Ya, but I also listen at 80db+ so for ānormalā listening volume itās fine 
Dw Iām only at that volume for around an hour or so.
I wonder what dB level my personal listening is at in this stage of my lifeā¦ I feel like when I was younger before I cared about the health of my ears, Iād listen to music obnoxiously loud. The proof is in the pudding. My tinnitus is through the roof in my current state unfortunately so now I am very careful.
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For the same reasons, I tend to be 60-70 db moist of the time. I probably hit high 70s for a few songs a week.
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Same - I can admit, that sometimes on some rare occasions, an extra few clicks are necessary on the volume knob and I just canāt help it.
Exhibit A for me is daft punkās ALIVE 2007. Something comes over me and I have no idea what is 
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