Upgrade your experience

It is a fact that 80% of the owners of the iPod mp3 players (still) have not switched to high quality in ear monitors (IEM), like the Shure, Etymotic or Sennheiser. It is odd: you spend a couple of hundreds of dollars on a good mp3 player and use, without thinking any further, the stock head phone. The latter is at best 'acceptable'. You don't know what you miss until you upgrade the phones to in ear monitors would be a shame not doing it, wouldn't it? One will want to get out the very best of one's mp3 player. You'll want your carefully ripped mp3 songs to sound the way they were meant to by the artist. Deep basses, clear mid tones en crystal clear high tones.

 

 

Like mentioned before, the standard head phone your mp3 player is supplied with, is often of saddening quality. So you start looking for in ear monitors. Then you come to the conclusion that there is more to choose from than you ever dared dreaming of. This is not amazing when you realize that there is an enormous market for IEM since the iPod came into our lives. For every ear, every taste and everyone's budget you can find an IEM.

Each pair of IEM has it's own stronger and weaker points. That makes it difficult to choose. Unfortunately, you won't find a shop on every other corner of the street to spend a Saturday afternoon, trying and comparing, to finally make a concious choice. In most cases you'll have to rely on the judgement of present users.

On the internet you will find hundreds of pages on the quality of head phones and IEM. These pages all have one thing alike: they give you purely personal impressions. The quality of sound is not like exact science and can't be put into graphics and statistics. The quality is truely in the ear of the beholder.