I will try when my meds aren't making me so stupid.

I'm pretty sure what you are hearing are phase cancellations and comb-filtering that results from summing stereo to mono. In phase cancellation, some sounds go missing entirely and comb filtering diminishes the volume of others. I scribbled down some observations I've made over the last year or...

I can't use cans because anything touching the right side of my face causes unbearable pain. I use in-ear monitors instead.

It was a surgery on another cranial nerve that runs very close to the auditory nerve. To try to solve my problem, the surgeon ended up cutting off the blood supply to my facial and vestibulocochlear nerves. Alas, the surgery didn't work, but left me with the new problems of a paralyzed face...

Living life in mono can be tough on people who love their music and love hearing it as pure as possible through good equipment. I lost hearing on my right side during a brain surgery, and have spent a lot of time looking for solutions to the problems of getting good sound back into my life. I'd...

This is very helpful indeed. I'll be attempting to make a visit to your hearing clinic when I visit Chicago around Thanksgiving-time.

Lots of good insight and advice in this latest post. I want to underscore the last: a good, broad based education.   Most of your classes will be outside your major. Take advantage of these rather than going for the easiest. Ultimately, you will succeed not because you learned the basics of...

I worked in higher ed admissions for more than 10 years and can tell you that most of the advice you've received is sound. Just to echo a bit: you won't have to start over if you complete an accredited bachelor's degree program. You will have to take the GRE and have a very high GPA to get into...

A question eventually, but first a little background: I'm recently permanently deaf in one ear due to a surgical side effect. For a couple of months now, I despaired at the loss of this hobby until I discovered that both my iphone and computer music server can switch stereo into mono. Things...

Yes, thanks, PM sent in return.

@Mimouille, thanks for the lead on Custom Art and your kind words.   @Mython, these Fabs look promising as well. The sound sig. seems about right. I moved to monitor style iems because the Atrios mg7 was the closest I could find to a quality cord-down model that didn't protrude too much from...

This is an unusual request for assistance in selecting a custom iem, and I was tempted just to send a pm to Average Joe, but just in case someone else has some degree of discomfort with wiring as it exits and loops around the ear, I'll ask publicly. I don't want to be overly dramatic, but this...

Quote: I'll check it out.  Thanks!

Quote: To answer your either/or questions, I'll be a pain and answer "yes."  Which is to say that there are degrees within these (admittedly imperfect) categories.  By analytical I mean that treble is the emphasized portion of the spectrum, frequently resulting in high level resolution of...

Quote: Very cool to have some personal history on my Linn's.  It looks more like an H, so Helen it is.     Refreshing to see someone with such obvious enthusiasm and respect for a former employer. I still really like the Kans--I'm surprised that there are so few speakers on the...

Quote:   Quote:     I guess there weren't any takers, but let's see if anyone cares to chime in, if not with a comprehensive list, then with good examples in the various price ranges?  

Quote: Mine only have the initials HP (or AP?) in the "Assembled" and "Tested" boxes.  Ring any bells?   I always assumed that the logo was a stylized cross-section view of a stylus on a record. Am I wrong?  And no, I haven't the foggiest what the "K" is about. Do tell.

Hi Paul.  Love and share your enthusiasm for this hobby. Have a pair of Linn Kan's in my bedroom, so thanks for any part you might have played!  

Over the weekend, I heard a world class symphony orchestra combine with its chorus for an enjoyable evening of music. In that alone, I'm fortunate.  But that's not the point of this thread.   The point was raised in my mind, however, by the mild disappointment I felt at the sonic changes to...

I certainly haven't listened to most of your short list, but I think I can help: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.  You've read the reviews, you know these are all good choices. So just pick one-perhaps based on comfort or availability-and be happy with it until you decide you need...

Quote:   Yes--thanks for the refinements of the sound signature categories, and adding a sixth.   As to budget: while cost is not an issue for some of our clients, purchase of these IEMs is out of our pocket, not theirs.  That said, we'll spend what is necessary to make the exercise...

I, for one, found your non "objective and neutral" review to be a lot more revealing (and entertaining) than most.  Thanks for not attempting to be so clinical.  It really allows the reader to understand what you find special about these phones.

Great stuff.  Thanks for the replies so far.  Seems the CK100 are a consensus choice for the defining mid-forward signature.  I certainly have enough to go on here, but does anyone else care to weigh in?  Sheesh, I thought there might be some high-minded, esoteric debate sparked here!

Hi folks.  Let me freely admit that I come to this question with more than a casual interest.  My firm designs and installs custom listening and viewing environments in homes.  Joining this site has led to a brainstorm with my partner about how to help our clients understand what sort of sound...

Quote: Actually, they use the phrase "new flagship version" on the GRO7s.   http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=gr07&_sacat=See-All-Categories   Lendmeurears also refers to a "new version." It is ambiguous whether it is just because of the new...