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Aka: AndrewG
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couple years ago it was all customs, now there isn't as much noise about custom IEMs. was it just a fad, or did the market get way too flooded?
couple years ago it was all customs, now there isn't as much noise about custom IEMs. was it just a fad, or did the market get way too flooded?
I think it's still very much in demand. I personally would never go back to non-customs. I just love my JH13s and JH5s SO much. Better than anything I've ever heard.
That being said, still the best choice I've ever made going to customs.
There are quite a few people who have not been that impressed by customs, specially after all the hype, exaggeration & misinformation surrounding these products. And there are many people who, while being happy with the SQ they got, still regret having taken the customs route due to the less than stellar experience they had with the whole process, which in many, many cases involved long, loooong wait times, multiple re-fits and several added costs the customer was not aware of before they started the whole process.
Unfortunately, we don't hear as many horror stories about these issues because, amongst other things, people often want to sell their custom sets and, therefore, often keep quiet about their true experiences, or just speak very briefly about them once. By contrast, those happy customs owners will often post a hell of a lot more and simply keep the hype alive and well.
Unimpressed customs owners will be given all manner of excuses --often so-called explanations-- as to why they're not getting that very significant SQ improvement they were supposed to be getting.
There are cases where customs are indeed the right choice, namely cases where people may have had difficulties getting a proper fit with several universals, but this is not that common.
Often, people will find, after a while, that perhaps the custom they happened to choose did not offer the type of sound sig they were looking for, or that truly appeals to them, or they simply develop an appreciation for a new type of sound or FR -- this is all the more relevant in those customs very few people have owned, ie where there's very little real, unbiased feedback to rely upon. In this, as in the case of most customs, the re-sale value of these products is pretty low, unlike those of universals.