Oh YES! What custom IEMs would you buy with $1000 USD to spend?

[FabulousMan]

Hello my nice friends. I've got $1000 (USD) to spend on custom IEMs. Maybe a bit more if it were something awesome. I Previously had Shure Ultimate Ears Triple Fi 10 (TF10) and had these converted to custom IEMs. They were great and I loved them. Truly awesome.

Please tell me what you'd purchase if you had this kind of budget to spend?

Notes:

1. It has to be a big well-known manufacturer. I know of Ultimate Ears, Westone, Unique Melody and JH. Are there any others that a big name band might go to in order to get them made right now? I.e. no small weird boutique makers please.
2. They preferably have to use easy to find cables that can be bought on Aliexpress etc. So no whacky bizarre proprietory cables that are going to cost $200 to replace and be really hard to find.
3. They'd mainly be used for listening to music on a phone and live music work. So they'd need to be fairly low impedance, 32 Ohms or thereabouts. Preferably a flat frequency response. I can EQ the audio myself so don't want something that will color the audio too heavily.
4. A manufacturer who has a good customer service reputation and provides easy returns if there are problems. The company who converted my TF10s were terrible. When they stuffed everything up and the IEMs needed to be returned, dealing with this company was horrendous. It caused me so much stress when I had to try to find lawyers to get my money back.

Thanks so much for reading and for your kind help.

 

[NA Blur]

I've heard most of the JH and Noble lineup and ended up with the JH 10x3 Pro.

https://jhaudio.com/all-item-groups/products/custom-fit-products/jh10x3-pro-custom-in-ear-monitor

Cost: $899 USD

Easy to drive with a portable. Good company to work with who knows what they are doing in regards to driver placement and mold production. The 10x3 Pro only has 3 drivers making the design simple compared to other 10+ driver IEM's. What I enjoy about the sound is it sounds neutral from 100Hz to 7.5kHz and has a very slight bass boost. I haven't measured it so I'm guessing around +3dB from 15Hz - 50Hz.

 

[FabulousMan]

I've heard most of the JH and Noble lineup and ended up with the JH 10x3 Pro.

https://jhaudio.com/all-item-groups/products/custom-fit-products/jh10x3-pro-custom-in-ear-monitor

Cost: $899 USD

Easy to drive with a portable. Good company to work with who knows what they are doing in regards to driver placement and mold production. The 10x3 Pro only has 3 drivers making the design simple compared to other 10+ driver IEM's. What I enjoy about the sound is it sounds neutral from 100Hz to 7.5kHz and has a very slight bass boost. I haven't measured it so I'm guessing around +3dB from 15Hz - 50Hz.

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply to me. I'll go with the JH 10x3. Thanks again for your kind help. This is exactly the kind of in-depth opionion based on experience that I was hoping for.

 

[NA Blur]

What did you end up going with and did you order something? If so how do you like it?

 

[FabulousMan]

Going to go with the JH 10x3. Haven't got any further with it though what with Christmas interfering with getting anything done. I emailed the company in America and they have a distributor here in Australia. They seem very professional and that means a lot to me.