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What is the best in-ear monitor for me?

What is the best in-ear monitor for me?

There are two ways you can describe the sound of an in-ear monitor. Ok, there are WAY more than 2 ways. But as broad categorizations go, there are two ways of looking at the sound of an earphone. You can use many different words (and we will in a bit) to describe these sonic generalizations, but for the sake of this post, we’ll call them CONTOURED and FLAT.

Alclair Audio Drivers Ed Resources - Headroom in custom in ear monitors

DRIVERS ED: Headroom

When deciding which in-ear monitor to get, there is more to the decision than just the number of drivers.

Different frequencies require different amounts of power to produce. Low frequencies needs lots of power where higher frequencies don’t need as much. There are lots of technical articles available for those who want to learn more about headroom and loudness curves. We’ll try to keep it simple here.

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