Etymotic HF3

[Andy Grange]

Does anyone know when these are due to be released? I'm looking for some new earphones for my iPhone 4, and they seem to be the only earphones that tick all the boxes I'm looking for: - In ear - Microphone positioned near face rather than on yoke - skip / back track - volume control I bought a pair of the Klipsch S4i's, and had to send them back as they were too bassy and not very comfortable at all. Any advise or comments on these would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Andy, I've been trying to get my hands on a pair of these ever since the press release stating they were "Now Available".

Clearly, they're not.

Etymotic's customer support told me the following:

"The HF3 are not in stock yet but we are expecting them soon. I will be sure to notify you once we have available stock."

That was over two weeks ago.

 

[Andy Grange]

Cool, thanks. I've read up a little bit and they seem to have been constantly delayed since around March? From what I can understand they're looking to release them in the next few weeks, fingers crossed.

I did find this on Facebook which appears to have someone from the company posting up news, I've just asked the question on there.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Etymotic-Research/146625698179?ref=ts&v=wall

 

[Andy Grange]

Seeing as What Hi-fi have yet to let anyone know, the HF3's are supposedley going to be available in the UK in the next few weeks. I received an email from Etymotic customer services last night, so hopefully won't have to wait much longer.

 

[AlmaataKZ]

I am also very interested. My current apple dual driver in-ears are getting all worn out and I was thinking of new in-ears soon. Once you are used to the handy controls you do not want to loose them so my thinking on features is very much like yours!

Are these hf3s dual-driver?

What other models are worth looking at that are worth it for lossless playback?

 

[Andy Grange]

There's nothing much on the here. You could also look at the Klipsch X10i, although they're quite expensive.

 

[Andy Grange]

Is there any chance someone at WHF could chase up Etymotic for a UK release date please? I'm getting a bit tired of waiting for these :S

Thanks in advance