The Sure 846's did come with Pro series Comply inserts. I tried the Sure foam inserts and then moved to the Medium Comply Pro inserts and I like them pretty well and may stick with them.
As expected they sound a LOT bit better than the 215's for music. They should, they are 900% the price of the 215's. The bass is solid and crisp and the highs are much better. I'm using the new red filters that have a more extended upper frequency range.
As expected these would be more dynamic and they are more efficient. I can clearly hear details at lower volumes.
Diana Krall's Stop this World sounded very nice. Vocals are very clean and smooth.
Ginuwine's Pony isn't challenging, but bass bass and more bass, and still the highs are there too.
Imagine Dragon's Radioactive is an odd test track, but it is a surprising test for warm vs. ultra low distortion accuracy. It sounds horrible on my ML's. The 846's are warm and this track actually sounds good. I was hoping for that.
Pentatonix in general sounds great. These headphones love vocals.
Alice in Chains Unplugged sounds good. I'd probably say it sounds really good, but I use it as a demo track on my ML's since this whole album sounds phenomenal and the earphones don't capture that and I'm too familiar with what can come through.
Daft Punk Alive 2007 sounds very good.
I ran about 12% of the battery down on my old S8 playing various tracks all over the map just seeing what they do well and where they didn't. Overall they sound very good. The 215's aren't even in the same ball park.
They do sound more open and wider than the 215's, but the spatial imaging for music is nothing like a pair of speakers, period. Just not there.
Next I plugged them into the Aero with my fingers crossed.
Fortunately in VR they are what I was hoping for. I'm very grateful for this because I was guesstimating a lot based on the word of a few people and my assumptions about impedance and the dynamic range of these headphones.
I don't think VR relies one bit on spatial imaging based on phase like music reproduced on speakers do. I'm assuming it simply adjusts the volume between your ears so that as you turn you can hear one ear getting louder and the other quieter. This is a very good thing because I think the only reason these feel more open than the 215's is having better midrange and high range.
I ran them as low as 15% volume in the Aero and I could still play at that volume and hear what I needed to hear. There is good dynamic range in this headset. The sound isolation likely helps as well.
I think I'm settling on around 35% volume in game and I can clearly hear all the ambient noises around me. The percussive headshots are no longer ear splitting and have a solid deeper note to them. They sound much lower and fuller than they did with the 215's. The 215's were painful playing In Death because I had to increase the volume enough to hear the ambient sounds, but then the percussive note was a higher frequency and painful. To be fair that is the only title where the 215's were painful. In all other titles they were fine. However the 846's do sound much better and have a fuller range. They clearly sound much better in Beat Saber playing music. Go figure!
In game I think they come close to sounding as good as the Index headphones. They sound clearly better in the bass and the Index's have good bass and the mids are a bit more pleasing. They are similar in the highs. I think the 846's have more dynamic range.
Those are just my initial knee jerk reactions. But I'm very happy to be this satisfied after a such a short stint with them in VR. Odds are as I get used to them I'll like them more. The "user" break in period is a real thing even if breakin periods for equipment is generally a bunch of horse puky.
So I'm done looking. I'm not suggesting they are gods gift to music, but they are miles better than the 215's and will be great for this application. They will now be permanently attached to my Aero unless I have visitors over.
