why do people wear iem looped over the top of the ears? i have never tried iem but just wondering why it must be worn in that fashion? so that it holds better?
I wear mine looped around my ears so that I can have the cord running down my back. It helps lessen the microphonics from the cord that you would get if you had them running down the front of your shirt, for instance.
Like stated above, microphonics are prevented.
And worn above the ear prevents it from being pulled off when the wires is tugged somehow. I hate that and that's how I lost many IEM's.
thx for the history kramer5150. so mostly it hasn't to do with sound, mainly just for your own convenience.
but when i was looking at one of the iem thread showing pics of people wearing iem, someone said that the person is wearing the iem the "wrong" way. is there a "wrong" way to wear iem?
Etymotic IEMs, at the least, are not "meant" to be worn that way. Most people wear them with the wire hanging straight down, though looping around your ears is an option.
Originally Posted by manhattanproj so most iems can be worn just regularly or looped round the top of the ears.
for the shures that are designed to be worn looped, how can you tell that they need to be worn in that fashion? are the headphone shaped differently?
Yeah most Shure's are meant to be looped around the ear. If you look at them, the wire exits from the top of the IEM which makes it want to naturally loop around the ear easier. Etys on the otherhand have the wire coming straight out or downward. I suppose you could reverse the L and R monitors of the shures(at least for the E3 and E4) so that the wire is pointing downward and wear them like the etys.
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