Need some recommendations... IEM under 100
Feb 2, 2015 at 11:22 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 2

JJRocket

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I know, I know... not another under 100 question... but I haven't been able to find any info that specifically relates to my questions/thoughts... and I hope this is the right place.
 
I currently own the Klipsch Image s4, because I had the s2's prior and loved them... very comfortable and small... when working overnights throwing freight they were great for hip-hop, that sort of thing... bass was clear, and the s4 is very similar in that regard.  If I'm jamming out on Eminem these sound wonderful... and have their use.
 
Recently I was listening to Eddie Vedder's Ukulele songs with the s4's and it sounded pretty muddy... albeit I was listening through Amazon Prime Music... so maybe the quality wasn't there... but the clarity on the s4 really didn't come through.
 
Now I don't want to throw down serious money, the wife would kill me "another set of headphones? what for?"... and it's hard to explain that "some albums sound muddier using these"... so hopefully something very decent under 100 bucks.. maybe 50 on sale.. or less used...
 
Where should I start?  Listening to softer stuff like Vedder, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones... that has good sound quality... sound stage I guess it's called?  I'm not an audiophile at all... but I can tell when something doesn't quite sound right.
 
Hope that makes some sense.
 
Thanks,
 
Jeremy 
 
Feb 2, 2015 at 11:32 PM Post #2 of 2
Oh... and Hello... my name is Jeremy.  I reside in Arlington, TX.  My wife Katherine and I have an 8yr old daughter name Maia.  I've been a listener on music since forever... 38 now. First real taste of music was through my step-father.  My mother married a younger man who was 14 years older than me... so at 7 he was 21... she was 27... as you can imagine the mid-80's were quiet the era for 20 somethings and I can remember playing tapes of Quiet Riot's "Bang your Head" on my little single speaker tape player... he was into the 60's and 70's classics also, so I grew up listening to everything from the Kinks to Def Leopard.
 
My first real "finding my own music", I guess you'd say was when License to Ill came out... fat laces and ll... man it was cool to be a kid in 1986... and growing up an hour and a half outside of NYC it didn't take long for the cities influence to hit us.
 
The grunge era took me over in my teens, and through that found the Indie scene... Pixies, Modest Mouse, Pavement... etc.
 
Now that I've mellowed out in my middle years, I tend to listen more to folksy stuff... great singer/songwriters... and love just hearing all the inflections in their tones...
 
Well that's my intro... probably too much.. but there it is. Cheers. 
 

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