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Com/products/ex-29-headphones Some other suggested the etymotics, but I can't stand in ear phones, or ones that rest on your pinna. I find them so uncomfortable.

A recording from a binaural head cannot account for the different shapes of pinnae that humans have. The outer ear of humans are shaped quite differently.

Some people apparently don't have a problem with pads resting on the pinna, but I find this painful after an hour or two. Isolation is also worse with supra-aural designs.

Those project significantly outside the pinna. Kanoa's don't appear to.

Seems like the pinna+upper ear-canal could be moulded very easily with dental alginate? The issue would probably be that you'd need to insert some form of tethered plug to stop the alginate going in too far, perhaps a bead on nylon thread.

Suggests an interesting optimization for immersive head-tracking VR systems might be to dynamically model pinna-reflection to correctly relocalize sounds vertically, as well as in the horizontal plane. How good is 3D sound modeling in game engines today?

But if that's your budget and solid signal in all circumstances is your major criterion, you might be better served by something that goes beyond the pure earbud form factor, like Apple's ones that have the antenna in an extension that puts it outside the pinna.

They appear to be closely modeled on the wired EarPods, which in my experience don't reliably stay in the ear on their own, to the point where they are best worn with the cable wound around the crease of the pinna - both for strain relief, and so that they're easier to recover and less likely to be damaged when they do inevitably pop out.