Please Help! Shure earphones care.

TheCenturion · 8 May 2009 at 17:50

I got a pair of Shure SE210s last week. Unfortunately I rushed it, put them in my ear, they came out with a whole load of earwax on them :eek:

Now one of the earphones sounded dimmer than the other, obviously because it was blocked by wax

So I cleaned them with the cleaning tool, and one of the ears sounded fine, but the other continued to be slightly dimmer.

I cleaned my ears out with a bit of water, and thought I had dried them completely, but when I put the earphones in, a bit of water got into the hole

, and the sound became almost non existent, all this time the sound in the right ear was fine. :confused:

I sent them back :rolleyes:

and have a new pair sitting in front of me, I don't want to make the same mistake again. What should I do? Thanks!

Flibster · 8 May 2009 at 18:40

1) Clean you ears... Cotton buds followed by Audiclean is good. Leave them to dry for a while - then possibly cotton bud them again.

If you don't fancy this - go to the docs and ask for your ears to be syringed. Not overly pleasant, but does a damn good job.

2) Use the black foam tips and don't push them in so far. The tips are meant to only just go inside your ear - not scrape your brain.

I've never had to use the cleaning tool at all - but if you do - avoid touching the metal mesh inside the earpiece.

TheCenturion · 8 May 2009 at 18:47

But then the bass doesn't sound that good if I don't push them in too far and they tend to fall out?

Just noticed I've been sent refurbished rather than new ones

I've just used all 3 types of sleeve, my ears are fairly small so I only used that size.

Damn my ears hurt

TheCenturion · 10 May 2009 at 14:03

None of the sleeving options completely shield out sound.

I've tried all of them at 40% volume and I can still just about hear cars driving past.

Minstadave · 10 May 2009 at 22:57

Flibster said:
1) Clean you ears... Cotton buds followed by Audiclean is good. Leave them to dry for a while - then possibly cotton bud them again.

Never use cotton wool buds, you just pack all the wax deep in the ear canal.

necrosect · 12 May 2009 at 11:34

I'm not particularly good with audio stuff so have no idea about the headphones, but as far as cleaning out your ears go, avoid using cotton wool buds. Get a pipette or anything you can using to carefully drip liquid, and put 2 or 3 drops of olive oil in your ear and lie on your side with that ear up for 4-5minutes. Repeat for the other ear. Do this everyday for a week (I know a pain), but will pretty much completely clean your ear out. Olive oil is actually more effective than eardrops (at least all of the over-the-counter ones in the UK). Other than syringing nothing much will get your ears cleaner than this.

EpicCarnage · 12 May 2009 at 12:15

dirty git clean your ears

fishfishfish · 12 May 2009 at 19:46

I've had some E2Cs for a few years. I'm on my second set, which Shure replaced after 22 months when they developed a crackle on the leads. (Not bad service!) Mine came with tiny little gauzes which stick over the ends of the tips. With mine, I just replace these every few months - and make sure I clean my ears!

I find the very soft black buds are by far the best. I can't get an airtight seal with either the foam ones or the clear silicone jobs, but I suppose that depends on how capacious your lugs are...