Ive had the 1More Quad Drivers for like 5 years now and the little fuckers are built like a tank, refuse to die (and im NOT nice to them). I think they were $120. The sound is 75% of the way there so i just tweak the eq, and theyre comfortable.
Before that tried many, many sub-$60 iems and none of them lasted me more than a year and none sounded as good.
Only other quality iems i had way back in the day were ER4s and they also lasted years.
nowadays tho, i think most mid-level iems sound like shit. I wouldnt pay 30 bucks for most of the weird tunings ppl seem to like on the $200-500 range. Theyre either bass bloated or super tizzy most of the time.
So i would say absolutely try before u buy. Theres far too many options to choose from compared to 10 yrs ago.
And if u dont like the sound of what u got eq can only take u so far. My rule of thumb for eq is: if i can tolerate the sound it can be fixed, if i absolutely hate it no amount of fiddling will.
Ive had the 1More Quad Drivers for like 5 years now and the little fuckers are built like a tank, refuse to die (and im NOT nice to them). I think they were $120. The sound is 75% of the way there so i just tweak the eq, and theyre comfortable.
Before that tried many, many sub-$60 iems and none of them lasted me more than a year and none sounded as good.
Only other quality iems i had way back in the day were ER4s and they also lasted years.
nowadays tho, i think most mid-level iems sound like shit. I wouldnt pay 30 bucks for most of the weird tunings ppl seem to like on the $200-500 range. Theyre either bass bloated or super tizzy most of the time.
So i would say absolutely try before u buy. Theres far too many options to choose from compared to 10 yrs ago.
And if u dont like the sound of what u got eq can only take u so far. My rule of thumb for eq is: if i can tolerate the sound it can be fixed, if i absolutely hate it no amount of fiddling will.