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At least in my experience, it's one of those things that you don't know what you are missing until you have it. I remember when I bought my first pair of IEMs.
by tnecniv 9y ago
At least in my experience, it's one of those things that you don't know what you are missing until you have it.
I remember when I bought my first pair of IEMs. They were pretty cheap, but still better than whatever earbuds came with my iPod at the time. After listening to the new IEMs for a while I was unable to go back to the Apple ones because they sounded so much worse. If you asked me a few days prior, I would have told you the earbuds sounded fine.
Then I got a real pair of headphones...
- gmarx 9y agoyup, that's the downside of the hobby. I spent years chasing improvements which only satisfied me for a week. Took me years to stop and enjoy "good enough". Recently played something on my system for a musician friend and he was unimpressed...then I was crestfallen
- tnecniv 9y agoYou eventually get to a Pareto optimal front where the changes you make to your system aren't necessarily better, just different (i.e. more bass at the loss of some other part of the spectrum, which you may or may not prefer).