re IEM's.

heres a story.

15 yrs ago my lovely wife got me two pairs of sennheiser iem's. cost 20 bucks each.
high quality for cheap....from radio trash.

weeelll one pair has gone bad and other pair is on its last legs...
sigh. sooo i tried a higher priced pair of sennys.
sent them back ...not in same class as the old senny 20 bukkers.

drives me nuts that i cant find a great pair of budget pair of iem's.
i like iem's cos i can blast away on my guitar with the iem's on and a rough old set of stereo spkrs doing old classic rock eg acdc...halen etc.
so its like i'm 'there'.
the old sennys could take a pounding.
now anything i try is wimpy in comparison.

if any one has some recommends for powerfull senny replacements...
that would be great. cos i'm worried my last pair of senny iem's are gonna go bad. ive tried loads of alternatives.
why companies stop producing great budget products frustrates me to no end

(imho theres lots of hype re monitors.ive used huge soffit monsters down to junk and never had success finding a monitor for mixing that translates to oodles of different playback systems...maybe i'm stupid...lol.
ive even had situations where pro mix engrs did a mix for me which held up on expensive monitoring systems...BUT..didnt on other different playback systems...sigh.
(i dont consider myself a pro mixer or mastering engr.
its a skill that only a few are adept at imho.))

btw...take a look at these budget monitor spkrs sometime...they arent wimpy low wattage spkrs like lots of spkrs today.
opinions ?

https://www.rockvilleaudio.com/elite-5b/

or these for budget...various stereo spkrs.
opinions ?

https://www.rockvilleaudio.com/bookshelf-and-compact/?in_stock=1&Bundle=No

happiness.

om

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 09/04/24 12:28 PM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)