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...

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...

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...

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...

As a relative newcomer to higher fidelity IEMs, I'm finding that as my listening gets re-tuned to expect a higher level of quality, my digital music collection remains an unwieldy mish-mash of old 128 mbps mp4s from when iTunes sent downloads at that bitrate, lossless rips of CDs, music podcasts...

First, thanks to the many who have previously weighed in on previous threads about best IEMs for sleeping.  Many point to the MEElec M6s, the Soundmagic PL50s, and Westones, with somewhat less frequent nods to the q-jays, db-Logic EP-100s, Shure 215s, and Phonaks.    I too am looking for...