Moved on from the IE8 to a JH13 couple of years ago, but part of me still misses the Senn. Maybe I do like something warmer.
Still, at this price, you've got me curious.

Since it is my intention not to be seen as a Tenore fanboy or a Zero Audio shill, I feel I really must mention a couple of negative aspects that might be a deal-breaker to many out there:

—  These phones do not come with detachable cables. Sadly, no chance to get a $300 silver cable, a $1,300 "Uber" cable or a $1,500+ Piccolino cable.

—  No burn-in needed. Unfortunately, the Tenores do not need 300/500/2000 hrs of burn-in—they sounded great right out of the box. However, maybe 2000+ hrs will change things…for the worse.

—  Although Zero Audio is a Japanese company, I was shocked to find out the Tenores are made in China. If these, for some reason, cannot be made in Japan, why can't they be made in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia, the US, Canada, or even oh soooo cool old Britain?

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Gimme+Tha+Power/2vLLWU?src=5

For a vented IEM isolation is actually very good.

I gotta always get the rectangular-ish earplug style tips or universal IEMs are a no go for me.

Seeing that in the last couple of days my popularity has increased even more—my karma going from +36/-146 to a whopping +38/-156 (who would've thought?)—, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the Pirates (you know very well who you are) for the overwhelming positive response to my posts in this thread and the Tenore IEMs themselves.

I'm told by Zero Audio that, as far as they can tell, at least 142 Pirates, wannabe-Pirates, or people who claim they heard of the Tenores in this thread, have ordered a pair. I'll admit I never expected that — 40, 60 Pirates perhaps at most, but 142…so far? Well, wow...just WOW!

Anyway, this morning I get a $1,420 bank transfer (commission on 142 pairs sold— $10 for every pair sold), and while my wonderful daughter and I are very grateful for such an unprecedented positive response—she, after all, knows her dad is quite fond of The Kings Of Incoherence, aka the AKG K3003, and knows what that means in certain quarters and this site, in particular—, the poor thing doesn't yet know she won't be getting a single penny from said shilling services. She already kinda suspects most of that money will be used to acquire more phones/gear, but she also knows her dad won't ever get a Noble Audio or JHA product (or quite possibly a Tralucent Audio product) no matter how generous a discount her dad may get from these 'companies' — she seems to think her dad still has some integrity & a tiny bit of common sense left.

One more/last request to the mod(s): How about changing my karma again to, say +14/-392? That would seem pretty fair to me.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Modul+45/56v4bB?src=5