What are IEM’s
I recently bought the Moon-drop Chu II for 25 Bucks on Amazon, if you aren’t sure what those are, well don’t worry that’s what i’m explaining in this Blog post.
First of all i have to explain what IEM stands for, IEM stands for In Ear Monitor, which basically are just earbuds but with a cable and the go over you’r ear. You might be asking, but what makes it different from other wired earphones? well dear reader, i am also telling you that.
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Redditor Tsuiichi said: Iems to me sound alot more personal, more intimate, easier to spot details. Headphones on other hand have alot more bass and dynamics in the mids. The soundstage on headphones will be more open and have more depth. Iems are alot lighter compared to headphones and have better sound isolation. I would say iems are more accurate than most headphones, if you have a deep fit and seal especially. If your a detail oriented person then iems usually tend to be more suited. Alot of cheaper iems use dynamic because of cost and efficiency, they also have great timbre. Dynamic drivers can cover a wide variety of genre without any big caveat compared to ba or planar. I think if you can get a good fit and seal on iem it can eliminate 80–95% of outside volume. If you need any more questions on finding tunings, styles, let me know
Personally i prefer IEM over Headphones since they dont mess up with my hair plus they won’t give headphone dent, Which according to wiki-how is: A headphone dent is caused by the weight of your headphones pressing into your hair and scalp. If you have one, take off your headphones, massage your scalp, and try wetting your hair to get rid of the dent. Otherwise, the dent is completely harmless and will go away on its own in a few minutes or hours.
Back to IEM’s. IEM’s are mostly cheaper and lighter than headphones. I’ve also noticed when listening to music, IEM’s sounds more direct, because IEM’s shoot the audio direclty into your ear canal while Headphones shoots the audio towards the ear which trust me does make a difference, it makes it sound more direct, fuller and like you are in the music, its almost like you can hear the different instruments hearing in different angles, very good experience if you ask me.
Let’s talk about price, not everyone has 300 bucks to spend on audio products, if you look up IEM on Amazon you’ll find different IEM’s with different price ranges, you have the Moondrop CHU II for 20 bucks but you also have the Insoul Kiwi Ear Orchestra Lite for 200 Bucks, as you see you have different IEM’s for different needs and different prices.
Anyways, this is the end, thank you for reading…
