It is, in the sense that it’s pretty easy to avoid getting the electronics wet. What I can tell you in the way of reassurance is that I’ve cleaned out several different models this way over many years and I haven’t damaged anything.

Maybe I have extraordinarily waxy ears, but I find occasionally cleaning earwax out of the mesh on earbuds/IEM’s to be a fact of life. What you want to use is peroxide. This is usually not the case, but it’s really lovely when the mesh is removable. You can just pop it out with a sewing needle...

Hi! Thanks for responding, and for the tips. I usually have my IEM's plugged into a USB-C adapter (with its own cheap little DAC) which is plugged into my Android phone. When I mentioned a TRS plug earlier, I may have been needlessly muddying my description of the situation. I have a pair of...

Welcome to my inaugural post. I've been lurking this board for a while and I really dig the vibes! I've been enjoying my first pair of IEM's for a little under a year now, but I've gone through a succession of crummy cables. I started with a generic one off of eBay, and I've moved up to one's...