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I'm glad to see attention drawn here. The only way to get any reasonable sub 500 Hz response out of tiny in-ear transducers is to have a good seal. The standi

I'm glad to see attention drawn here. The only way to get any reasonable sub 500 Hz response out of tiny in-ear transducers is to have a good seal. The standing waves go a long way. Molded in-ear monitors are best, but they're speciality items. It would be cool to see a modern true wireless earbud you can order and ship them your ear molds.

senorsmile 5y ago
I have sensaphonics custom sleeves for Shure universals (specifically the se-535's, but fit the 215's just fine). I've used them with Shure bluetooth wireless adapters for a few years. Now with Shure's new Aonic TWS adapter, I can pop them on my 535's with my custom sleeves and voila!
- willis936 5y ago
  That Aonic TWS is pretty interesring! It's almost exactly what I'm looking for. It'd be nice to also have the mic used for calls also be able to pump in sound from the outside. I like IEMs, but I don't want to wear something at work that I have to pull out all of the time.
disabled 5y ago
There is actually a subreddit called DIY in ear monitors. https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/ You will be quite impressed and I suggest you take notes and dump great posts into OneNote or something similar to index, so when you make your own, you have a great reference and cheat sheet.
- willis936 5y ago
  I actually have already gone pretty deep. A few years ago I got a teensy, molded shells, specced out a nice set of 3 transducers, modeled passive and DSP crossover networks (tradeoffs of low latency IIR mode and high quality FIR mode on the DSP side), and a measurement apparatus. I got to the point in the project where I had to manually solder tiny wires onto tiny surface mount connectors and put the project down. Idk if I'll ever be able to finish it, but it was a fun project. Edit: Oh I forgot to add that I also got tiny microphones and lodged them into the IEM blackplates for ANC or pass-through. It's an ambitious hobby project. I'd be happy to see a proper company do it (or at least incorporate elements of it).
audron 5y ago
I've been using my CIEMs with Fiio's UTWS3[0] and it's been great, pretty decent sound quality with APT-X tho sadly no LDAC. Also no ANC but imo the isolation of customs is good enough already. The software is also a joke, but basicly nothing has a proper parametric EQ anyways. Also recently learned about UE FITS[1] which are TWS and mold to your ears at home. [0] https://www.fiio.com/utws3 https://www.fiio.com/utws3 [1] https://custom.ultimateears.com/products/ue-fits https://custom.ultimateears.com/products/ue-fits
- willis936 5y ago
  Pretty neat. Do either have a pass-through mode?

senorsmile 5y ago

I have sensaphonics custom sleeves for Shure universals (specifically the se-535's, but fit the 215's just fine). I've used them with Shure bluetooth wireless adapters for a few years. Now with Shure's new Aonic TWS adapter, I can pop them on my 535's with my custom sleeves and voila!

willis936 5y ago
That Aonic TWS is pretty interesring! It's almost exactly what I'm looking for. It'd be nice to also have the mic used for calls also be able to pump in sound from the outside. I like IEMs, but I don't want to wear something at work that I have to pull out all of the time.

disabled 5y ago

There is actually a subreddit called DIY in ear monitors. https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/ You will be quite impressed and I suggest you take notes and dump great posts into OneNote or something similar to index, so when you make your own, you have a great reference and cheat sheet.

willis936 5y ago
I actually have already gone pretty deep. A few years ago I got a teensy, molded shells, specced out a nice set of 3 transducers, modeled passive and DSP crossover networks (tradeoffs of low latency IIR mode and high quality FIR mode on the DSP side), and a measurement apparatus. I got to the point in the project where I had to manually solder tiny wires onto tiny surface mount connectors and put the project down. Idk if I'll ever be able to finish it, but it was a fun project. Edit: Oh I forgot to add that I also got tiny microphones and lodged them into the IEM blackplates for ANC or pass-through. It's an ambitious hobby project. I'd be happy to see a proper company do it (or at least incorporate elements of it).

audron 5y ago

I've been using my CIEMs with Fiio's UTWS3[0] and it's been great, pretty decent sound quality with APT-X tho sadly no LDAC. Also no ANC but imo the isolation of customs is good enough already. The software is also a joke, but basicly nothing has a proper parametric EQ anyways. Also recently learned about UE FITS[1] which are TWS and mold to your ears at home. [0] https://www.fiio.com/utws3 https://www.fiio.com/utws3 [1] https://custom.ultimateears.com/products/ue-fits https://custom.ultimateears.com/products/ue-fits

willis936 5y ago
Pretty neat. Do either have a pass-through mode?