@Dulalala I didn't see Shure listed on their site but I've enquired with them, so thanks for the pointer. Acustoms are the official UM dealership in Australia and they very clearly advertise SE530 reshelling on their site— makes me wonder if they operate separately as Cotnijoe says they no...

I have an old pair of Shure SE530's lying around (cables died after ~6 months) and after losing my regular TTPOD T1-E's it's time to get them working again. I live in Australia and hope to reshell the SE530 to have Custom mold Removable cables Added drivers for x6 or x8 upgrade I've read that...

Thanks, that's a brilliant response. I just thought that since Unique Melody are really at the top of the game that the quality in drivers alone would set the IEMs far apart. I guess as Mython said, you can't really know or rely on assumptions at this stage. I can imagine isolation would be...

Been a lurker for years and signed up today. Okay- I know I'm probably going to be slammed and lambasted for utter newbness, but how would these sound compared to a pair of Shure SE530 IEMs? That is, going off what we would expect from the specs available.