[General Accessories] vectron:
I was hoping you, as one of the few true audiophiles in this forum, will reply to this review sooner or later ;)

Regarding cables, the comments actually came from another forum (AndroidForums) where I mirror all of my reviews. But nevertheless, I have been thinking about it and tend to agree. If I remember correctly you have SE215, with removable cable (the same one as UE900). Do you have a flex piece next to the headphone connector you bend in a shape to go over your ears? That's how it is with UE900 which is kind of a PITA to put your headphones on. When the cable is free hanging you just insert earpieces and put the wire around your ears. It's a lot easier this way based on my experience, for example using Klipsch S4A IEM and especially useful when you have bulkier earpieces. UE900 are very lightweight and small, almost go into your ears flush so in theory it could be worn either way but because of that flex rigid wire you can't hang those down. It will be interesting to see how the replacement cable going to work. I'm especially intrigued by "samsung" control reference, hoping they put correct resistors into the remote for volume control on my Note 2.

Now regarding bass of UE900. When you read a lot of professional reviews they all compare these to 50 other audiophile quality IEM reviewer tested before. I'm building up my headphone collection starting with reviews of cheaper lower quality ones and moving up to quad drivers. That explains my upbeat tone ;) When I tested cheap $5 headphone from dx.com - those sounded great to me. When I stepped up to S4A - it was a huge improvement, but after testing UE600 I realized how much clarify a single armature driver was able to deliver. At the same time, I was able to distinguish that UE600 lacked bass, even after a prolong burn in. With wireless headphones my comparison continued where those with BT2.1 or BT3.0+aptX sounded awful and compressed, while BT4.0+aptX made a significant improvement to the point where I was very impressed by SYNC by 50 on-ear wireless headphones. But in parallel, when I compared Jaybirds BBX and Plantronics BBG2, both of which had old BT stack but it's own proprietary dsp decoding - I was blown away by BBG2 sound quality. M-Duo was impressive, but v-shaped FR wasn't really my cup of tea, although at the beginning I was very impressed with it's sound. So far everything I have tested was either v-shaped or enhanced either at low end or high end. So, when i started with UE900 - I found it's balanced sound to be amazing! The bass response has improved after burn in. Now, I also read about these having a pinhole which a lot of people seal for a better bass response (I'm still contemplating about it).

I have to absolutely agree EU900 carry a lot of bass details, and it has a slight bass bump, but it's not in your face to make you feel the bass. I have a number of bass heavy headphones where you get in-your-face bass without a need to adjust EQ. But I hate how that bass is delivered, colored, saturated, in some cases sounding hollow without "weight", etc. So I was excited about UE900 because to my ears it was ideal, especially since I listen mostly to EDM music where you get a lot of bass to begin with. But once I get my review pair of Westone W40, I will be able to make a true comparison between these two quad driver IEM and their bass response. Basically, my EU900 review was "standalone" while Westone will be more of a comparison, the same way how all those other pro reviews come out ;)