kensuguro
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Hey all, first post. I've always turned to head-fi for awesome community knowledge..
My Ety ER-4P that I was using for on stage and also for tracking broke.. actually, I've already have 2 of them fail on me in past 2 years, always the Y section of the cable breaking. So I want to get something a little more durable.
My question is this.. while many musicians know and recommend Ety, and maybe Shures, there are many IEM manufactures I've never heard of.. like Klipsch and so on.. Are these known to have reference grade response? Or are they more like "in ear listening devices" built for casual listening? I'm not sure if the label "IEM" really means anything in terms of in ears, where as "studio monitors" in headphones usually means the sound isn't beefed up or juiced up in any way, with fairly flat response.
Anyway, it's not like I'm going to mix on the IEM, just wanted to know whether there was a conscious distinction in the world of IEM.
My Ety ER-4P that I was using for on stage and also for tracking broke.. actually, I've already have 2 of them fail on me in past 2 years, always the Y section of the cable breaking. So I want to get something a little more durable.
My question is this.. while many musicians know and recommend Ety, and maybe Shures, there are many IEM manufactures I've never heard of.. like Klipsch and so on.. Are these known to have reference grade response? Or are they more like "in ear listening devices" built for casual listening? I'm not sure if the label "IEM" really means anything in terms of in ears, where as "studio monitors" in headphones usually means the sound isn't beefed up or juiced up in any way, with fairly flat response.
Anyway, it's not like I'm going to mix on the IEM, just wanted to know whether there was a conscious distinction in the world of IEM.