I’m also new to the Monarch MK2 Love.
And I guess I am of a different mindset. Beyond feeling like this is my endgame and that it’s absolutely fantastic personally.
Now to my frustration with the hobby. I just don’t understand why we compare vs other IeM (let alone our ears vs others persons ears). It is literally insane to seek a standard inside of subjective worlds. No matter how many graphs or how many featured scores ranking happens, everyone will never hear the same nor like the same, we are all individuals. If you go and create the perfect on paper IEM all you will do is find that tomorrow it isn’t because someone hates every single thing it was made to do, hates it because they don’t have it, or find some political, religious, or superficial reason why it’s not perfect.
I have literally been on forms where all I did was simply say that my favorite brands were xx and CC and everyone that responded hated me because they believed if I didn’t mention their brand that I was a threat to their life or their superiority complex. The whole hobby is mostly subjective when all the smoke clears snd you will never give enough proof for the critics and haters in the world and you will only be required only the smallest confirmation to the fanboys to support their views. And look, I know we seek to be objective on things but it always seems to come back to subjective stands over all else when the smoke clears and that’s just crazy.