They're somewhat akward at first but you'll get used to them in a few days. If you feel any pain or achyness after a short period of time send them in for adjustment.   I suspect "don't even know they're there" is a subjective experience, I'm fully aware of their presence at every moment...

Still didn't really answer my question though. I'm ready to drop about $300 on an amp and am skeptical that an amp offers significant enough improvement in SQ to justify the cost based on the fact I found un-amped sounded better thru the headphone jack.   Is the source significantly better...

I've maxed out my budget already for a rig, so $25 is my max for an LOD cable. There's several on ebay for that or less but it's just a matter flipping a coin on which one to pick, any ideas on how I should go about choosing one?

  My problem is I already dropped $400 on the JH5 Pro's and I don't want to drop another $250+ on a portable amp unless I know using an LOD cable is a SUBSTANTIAL sound quality improvement over a mini to mini cable.   I did a blind study with my wife to see if a portable amp (ibasso D2)...

  Update: I got three quotes, $100, $60 and $50.  If an audiologist is asking $100+, get quotes elsewhere.   Impressions are not really a do-it-yourself thing. The audiologist had to clean debris from my ear to get the proper impression. Custom earphones require rather deep in-cannel...

  I've been calling local audiologists asking for quotes but some of these audiogists (or maybe their secretaries) are stumped at what i'm asking for. Here's how I've been posing the question:   "Hi, I'm looking for a quote to be fitted with custom earphones"   ...I then get a long...

I originally was is the $200 price range for IEM's but decided customs sounded like the right thing for me so I'm going with the JH 5 Pro's. This puts me up at $400.   Is the do-it-yourself impression a no brainer or is it well worth the $100 or so to have an Audiologist do it?

OK, I'm sold on the customs. Next question:   SE530 Pro, TF10 Pro or JH 5 Pro?

  As an audio enthusiast I require my master library that I will have for decades to be lossless format. May the makers of Itunes burn in hell.   Any NON-APPLE stores that sell lossless files at this point?

Thank you everyone who responded. Anyone else have comments?

Quote: So I'm under the impression that "customs can't be sold" is outdated information.

When comparing high-end universal IEM's to custom IEM's, do you find the comfort and fit of the universal to be:   1) significantly less comfortable than custom made 2) almost on par with 3) roughly on par 4) Universal's are actually more comfortable than custom made   (assume the...

Wrong forum Sorry

Your on the right track. I listen to the same music and place a high value on comfort. My all time favorites are HD600's (i prefer them over my hd650's) and DT880's both for comfort and sound. Both are great with tube amp. Portable amps won't get the job done (properly) with either of these 2...

Not blue. Black!!