Clear Tune Monitors CT-500 Elite

General Information

Company Introduction:
Clear Tune Monitors is a company focused on the precision of sound, and there is nothing more important than precision. Whether you are a professional musician or a music lover wanting to take your listening experience to the next level, Clear Tune Monitors (CTM) offers a wide array of products to get you that precision of sound you are looking for.

Established and operated in Orlando, Florida, Clear Tune Monitors has been working hard to satisfy the needs and wants of many different international touring acts, sound engineers, professional musicians, and average music listeners by developing and fine-tuning its products. Thanks to a fast and solid growth, CTM is already partnering to expand in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Product Introduction:
5 drivers, 5-way crossover, triple bore. The CT-500 Elite provides a very exquisite and a well balanced sound with a slight tinge of warmness. The CT-500, with single low, single low/mid, single mid, single mid/high, single high balanced armature drivers, offers a very full sound across the whole frequency range with the most clarity.

Product Specification:
Input Sensitivity: 115.6dB @ 1mw
Freq Response: 20 Hz to 18 kHz
Speakers: 2x low/low-mid, 1x mid, 1x mid/high and 1x high balance armature drivers in 5-Way crossover
Impedance : 20 ohm at 1 kHz
Noise Isolation: -26dB
Input Connector: 1/8″ (3.5mm)

Latest reviews

5h4d0w

New Head-Fier
Pros: Frequency cohesiveness, build quality & pretty much everything it has to offer. Seriously.
Cons: Isolation? But i guess that's due to shell fitting.
First review on head-fi ever. I don't have much to say less the ratings that i've came up with below. Don't take my review seriously though. Different ears, different sound impression. But what i do like about the CT-500E is how the lows/mids/highs work together cohesively. They don't bleed into each other. It makes the CT-500E analytical in a sense but more to the musical kind. For it's kind of price tag, some might think it's ridiculous. Then again, what kind of price tags are ridiculous for us head-fiers right? Hah.
 
Build quality: 9.5/10 (Real solid build!)
Customisability: 10/10 (Head over to their website to do the online customisation. They've tons of options.)
Comfort: 9.5/10 (Sometimes i feel like i forgot it's in my ears. Seriously.)
Isolation: 9/10 (It breaks up the isolation on a rare occasion. But i guess that due to the mold.)
Highs: 9/10 (Not too sparkly for me. It's just there)
Mids: 10/10 (The perfect treble nuff said)
Lows: 9.5/10 (Accurate bass representation.)
Soundstage: 9/10 (The vocals might be too forward for some.)
Channel Separation: 9/10 (Maybe due to my DAP? I'm using the Luxury & Precision L5 Pro)
Musicality: 9/10 (Is this even considered an actual rating? Idk.)
 
In the end, The CT-500E is the kind of CIEM i'm looking for in a really long time. I've tried other brands such as EarWerks, CustomArt, HUM, Jomo, InEarz, 64Audio, Cosmic Ears & other CIEM series from CTM but i guess my ears just loves the CT-500E (Besides the Spiral Ear VE5 Ultimate :p).
flinkenick
flinkenick
Ah makes sense. Glad to hear you're enjoying it, seems like an interesting one.
5h4d0w
5h4d0w
Thanks! It is actually. It is quite a unique sounding CIEM.
Clear Tune Monitors
Clear Tune Monitors
Although we acknowledge that there's no such thing as the best of something, each person has their own preferences and opinions, we love it when people think like you @5h4d0w. And to add a nice note to this, we'd like to share this bundle we're offering with the CT-500 Elite and Acoustic Research's AR-M200 https://cleartunemonitors.com/ctm-ar-bundle-deal.php

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