would you spend $900 on earbud monitors?

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Posted by emc^2 on Jul-28-2005 13:21:

would you spend $900 on earbud monitors?

hooooly crap! check out these prices for something that looks like it came out of alien's ear:

[url]http://www.ultimateears.com/custom/item__browse__cat-66.html[/url]

woudja drop $900 on these?

Posted by qiushiming on Jul-28-2005 14:22:

no wonder...these are custom made so they have to get molds of your ears to make them fit...

i personally have never heard of any producer in a studio using these...only musicians/vocalists on stage during live performances...

quote:
Ultimate Ears� Studio Reference Monitiors. While designed for professional applications, the UE-10 Pro� is just as well suited for use with an iPod, portable DVD player, or any other portable music device.

LOL....for 900 bucks.........

Posted by Icone on Jul-28-2005 14:46:

Good god... You guys are going for a real expensive hobby

Posted by Liquid8 on Jul-28-2005 16:16:

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Originally posted by Icone
Good god... You guys are going for a real expensive hobby

I'd prefere to be a rich amateur producer rather than a poor professional producer

Posted by FrancoR on Jul-28-2005 17:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Liquid8
I'd prefere to be a rich amateur producer rather than a poor professional producer

Posted by Icone on Jul-28-2005 23:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Liquid8
I'd prefere to be a rich amateur producer rather than a poor professional producer

Lol... You really think good trance music comes from your instruments just like that? Think again I'd say. Music comes from the mind and creativity of the producer with what he has available. Need any examples?

I myself would NEVER spend something as $900 on earphones or headphones. Seems just a little bit too silly. You can even get a decent second hand car for that amount of money heh.

Posted by Tech0rz on Jul-28-2005 23:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Liquid8
I'd prefere to be a rich amateur producer rather than a poor professional producer

If using these ear-phones you will help you to turn pro, i want some

Posted by Liquid8 on Jul-28-2005 23:28:

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Originally posted by Tech0rz
If using these ear-phones you will help you to turn pro, i want some

oh really ? ok, go and order em Then I'll be waiting for your pro tune

Posted by RoBDaWG on Jul-29-2005 05:20:

Wow thats too funny. I was just watching the Sensation White compliation video on ID&T's site, and one of the DJ's was using a set of these and I thought to myself 'who the hell spins with earbuds'

...these are gonna take over

Posted by emc^2 on Aug-02-2005 23:56:

Ok, little confession time. I didn't actually buy the 900 bucks version but I did end up buying the "cheaper" SuperFi.Pro version for "only" $200. I was actually sceptical at first - you know... $200 for earbuds, what can I possibly expect. Little did I know I would be getting an amazing set of earbuds. I can only imagine what the $900 plugs sound like.

I didn't buy them for studio use - they were bought for MP3 player use. The sound quality on mine is fantastic, I shit you not. They actually do not exaturate any particular frequency - trully a flat response. Because they are earbuds, you get great sound insulation - 26dB noise cancelling (at least). I was using stock iRiver earbuds (complete shit) before and even with my player cranked up to "full volume" I was barely able to hear the music, sound was awful and had AM radio quality. I then bought nice over the ear cans but in this hot weather not only my ears sweated like mofos but I also looked like an alien and they were pain in the ass to haul around on my daily commute to work.

These earbuds actually sound business and bass response is excellent! There's actually an active cross-over in the damn earbud size of pencil eraser!

I really could go on and on drooling but the best thing is if you can - check them out! Oh, and because they insulate the sound so well, my mp3 player has to be tuned down to 1/2 volume or my ears begin to hurt and ring. So, even if I decide to go full bass, I still have room to go and NO FARTING - perfect sound reproduction.

The only downside I can think of (besides the price) is that you don't feel the bass all over your ear, like you do with the cans. However, these can literally blow earwax out of your nose, if you crank them up.

In words of Ferris Bueler: "If you have the means definitely pick up. are so choice!"

Awesome really... can't say it enough.

Cheers!

Posted by aquila on Aug-03-2005 08:02:

Beats me why you'd spend $200 on high quality earbuds when you're only going to listen to something as shit as mp3's

Posted by trancecadet on Aug-04-2005 01:27:

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Originally posted by aquila
Beats me why you'd spend $200 on high quality earbuds when you're only going to listen to something as shit as mp3's

LOL quality. that is so true tho. like buying a top of the range hi-fi and using cheap ass speakers or interconnects.. madness!

Posted by supersonik on Aug-04-2005 03:00:

I'd spend the $900 on a synth and deal with my regular monitors.

Posted by nhibberd on Aug-04-2005 21:28:

I would only buy them if the generated the same amount of money back at you. The problem with these earplugs vs studio monitors is that you can't see the woofer warping if your bass levels are too high. Plus I think to monitor a sound propperly you need to create an environement for your music that is similar to the environement that it would be listened to by 'fans'.

To monitor your music you need to listen to it first of all on good monitor speakers(which are usualy more expecive than 900 USD). Secondly on a car radio which give you an idea of how it sounds in a club. And my absolute last priority would be silly little earplugs that will probably give a lot of detail but lack the feel of volume and the whole belly wobbling thing.

I would get good monitor speakers if i where you KRK is the absolute top-notch to go with for home-studio's.

kind regards,

Nick
BitTrance

Posted by dRale on Aug-05-2005 03:58:

i have never heard of an engineer using earbuds to mix

Posted by dRale on Aug-05-2005 03:59:

...and it will never happen

Posted by zookeeper on Aug-05-2005 05:14:

Earbuds are really for live performance, in a situation where the stage volume is excessive, performers like the high volume without feedback risk. Although the sucky thing is that you can't hear all the applause and crowd noise (the real reason we all get into this )

Cheers for picking some up, they do sound incredible and they don't mess up your hair like big cans do.

...and no, real live engineers don't wear earbuds, you would be yankin' em out every 2 min and they don't hang right on the mixing console

Just stick the word "Pro Audio" on anything, and the price triples.

Posted by qiushiming on Aug-05-2005 05:21:

quote:
Originally posted by nhibberd
To monitor your music you need to listen to it first of all on good monitor speakers(which are usualy more expecive than 900 USD). Secondly on a car radio which give you an idea of how it sounds in a club.

Wouldn't agree with this 100%...After all you can pick up a pair of "pro" maudio monitors for less than half of 900 bucks...

But for the real studio monitors that are embedded in actual recording studios...yeah those will make a nice hole in your wallet

Posted by zookeeper on Aug-05-2005 05:25:

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Originally posted by qiushiming
those will make a nice hole in your wallet

That's FOR SURE!!

Posted by emc^2 on Aug-05-2005 23:47:

Some excellent points above... though, I'm not using them for professional use ATM. I have a set of Seinheisers and Mackie HR824's. Most recently got rid of my Genelec 1038A's... Now, this is serious sound:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=7337672847

Posted by nhibberd on Aug-08-2005 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Icone
Lol... You really think good trance music comes from your instruments just like that? Think again I'd say. Music comes from the mind and creativity of the producer with what he has available. Need any examples?

I myself would NEVER spend something as $900 on earphones or headphones. Seems just a little bit too silly. You can even get a decent second hand car for that amount of money heh.

Yeah, probably a second hand car with a decent sterio too

Posted by isrefel on Aug-09-2005 10:22:

JOHN DIGWEED

I have seen john digweed use these......

on one occasion before i seen him close up i though he was mixin with no headphones..... they must be amazin cau like him or not john digweed is at the very tor of his game and if he is using them they must be good....

to be honest i think earbud headphones are so must clearly as all sound is going direct in ear .... its as simple as im buyin a pair

isrefel

Posted by zookeeper on Aug-10-2005 17:46:

May have to splurge and get some too.

My AKG145's are gettin' a little old.