ER4 Replacement cable

Easy to install, working great.. My old cable lasted many years, hope this one does as well.

Etymotic er4s are some of the finest sounding headphones available, but these cables SUCK. I have gone through like 2 a year consistently. And they are not cheap. Anyway this last one I bought broke in almost exactly 31 days, putting me RIGHT past the return window, and now I don't know what to do. I contacted the company and at first it seemed like we were getting somewhere but they just stopped replying after one exchange. I don't want to pay another 80 bucks for yet another terrible cable that will break immediately, but I want to be able to use my damn headphones! They're just sitting in a box collecting dust while I use terrible sounding convenience store ones. At least the convenience store ones last longer than a month.

So, so glad to have replaceable cables.

This is an OEM cable, and feels and works great. I really like the thin twisted pair of wires going to each IEM. However, I have experienced an intermittent short on the right channel (IIRC), and so stopped using it. FWIW, I actually like the replacement cable for the ER3 compared to this cable. But, I lost that ER3 cable. What I am using now is a general MMCX cable, which electrically mates with the Ety's just fine, but doesn't lock in place, due to the lack of the notch. But, this is fixed by taping the two sides together. I actually used shrink wrap to hold the MMCX connector to the Ety IEM, which is even more stable. This solution has been working great, so I probably won't buy expensive Ety replacement cables going forward. Still, this is a nice cable, albeit expensive and (at least for me) fragile.

Died after 6 months of babying the cable (never pulling the earplugs out by tugging on the cable, only the earphone itself), the cable that came with the headphones lasted 24 months and I was much less delicate with them, so it's really hard to recommend a replacement that barely lasts 1/2 a year.

Bought this to replace my ER2XR cable. It works and it's basically the same as the original cable in every way except the braided part. No problems straightening out and coiling it up. The microphonics are terrible. It is highly overpriced for what it is.

Works just as good as the packed cable.

very good replacement