I'm in a quandary between IEM, custom IEM and on ear portable headphone. Please help me out.
- Between IEM and custom IEM: My understanding is that its universally agreed that custom IEM is all around better in general.
- Its not so clear about C/IEM vs portable on/over the ear headphones. I've researched quite a bit and all the threads here in here discusses IEM vs full size headphones.
If you compare |joker| epic thread about IEM vs portable headphone, its evident that most expensive portable headphones can be head under ~$350. Where as the expensive IEMs are north of one grand. Does that indicative of their respective sound quality too?
Say, if I've a budget of $500 max for headphone that I want to use in my daily NYC subway commute. Which would be a best investment: a universal fit IEM, custom fit IEM (alclaire reference, 1964 Ears V3 etc) or the cream of the crop protable headphone (beyerdynamic dt1350, Sennheiser HD-25-1 II, V-MODA M100 etc)?
I'll start a new thread if thats more appropriate. I would love to hear opnions regarding this.
P.S. My music preferrence is mostly indie rock. I exclusively listen to headphones on my subway commute. I have a earsonic sm3 and vsonic gr07.