“Al’s Bass Gear Reviews” - I’d subscribe 
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I would definitely subscribe as well
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Thanks guys, I might just do that. It would be a gear thing and not a typical review. I really love the Angry Asian angle. Let see if I can pull it off, 
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Just picked this up today. Putting it though its pace right now.
Wow! this is a pretty incredible IEM.
78.
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pricey. interesting. swappable filters? tell us more.
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Which one? the FH19?
Yes it has the typical Red-Bass, Green-Treble, and Black-Balance
I first tried the black filter and it’s very easy to listen but once I put the green filter on I don’t want to go back. The extra sizzles really bring out the detail. The staging is unreal.
The red filter is more for older recording, where there’s a lot more dynamic in the mastering mix. Same goes to the soundtrack as Loudness is not the priority, but the dynamic is. Red filter would turn most modern mastering into a Mudpie. That said I don’t detect any bass bleeding into the lower mid at all, which is quite remarkable. It’s safe to say that it’s the best hybrid FIIO ever made.
The sleeper though is the FH5s. That’s Gem. It’s the HD6XX of IEM. airy, and open, delicious Mids. Many Tubes reviewers were not so kind on this model but it’s the perfect IEM for the current music not to mention the Cory Wong’s catalog of music I like and the Bassists album like Nathan East, Gary Willis, Esperanza Spalding, to name a few. You can pick one up for very cheap now too. Great value is an understatement.
No IEMs are great with “Every” genres of music. No let me be more specific, the “playlist” that you know so well. If you want to listen to the equipment then you need your “known” music. You can tell the difference from your experience after a few hundreds times listening to that playlist or song. Listening to new songs for the first time almost everything sounds good on just about everything because you are not listening to the equipment just music.
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sounds cool, i would love to hear them 
edit: both of them, actually
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Sadly you are so far away, if not it could happen in a blink. Not to mention I have the FX15 and the FA19. Both are highly technical and awesome to listen to.
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I’ve been using BASN IEMs for practice / gigs and have been happy.
But on @Al1885’s recommendation I bought the Filo FH3. Really nice build quality and look premium but only $70 USD. @BeerBaron
Added some Comply Foam tips and am impressed so far. Slightly better bass response and it doesn’t break up at volume as much as the BASN.
Will give these a try at the next rehearsal and report back after standing next to our drummer.
https://www.amazon.ca/Comply-Premium-Replacement-Earphone-Earbud/dp/B002NUSMC8
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For music listening the silicone tips are usually better the foam tips boost the bass too much for that. I’m sure glad you like them. I too use the FH3 on the gig.
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The foam tips keep out our noisy drummer whom I stand next to all night 
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Totally agree, I do use hybrid tips foam inner core and silicone shell on the gig as well. It’s great for isolation.
Which ones?
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At the time I could only find SymBio now there are quite a few options.
Hey @Whying_Dutchman got any new IEM? Check out the Tanchjim Bunny. It’s $20 and not kidding it sounds like 2 of my $500 ones. great “Air”. and it also has expensive treble tuning too.
If you want a better build and tuning option then get the 4U it’s very nice. the “Pop” is the same as bunny I got it on sale on Amazon for like $40 It’s my favorite carrying around set.
I have an ignorant question, because I am deeply ignorant about electric stuff.
A bunch of us went to a Heart cover band (sort of a cover band, IYKYK). There was trouble with the sound, fading, feedback, etc. At one point a couple of them were waving at the sound guy and pointing to their IEMs. The vocals were painfully off. My bunch included people with no musical experience and we were all wincing at each other.
Do singers need the IEMs working properly to be able to sing in tune?
Would they have been better off or heard themselves better if they’d taken the IEMs out?
(I’d heard them before and they were incredibly good, as expected. This concert was weird. Long silent gaps between some songs, band members looking at each other in confusion, out of tune vocals, and generally just off.)
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People sings out of tune because that’s what they hear. Not everyone can hear the “pitch”. If your singer starts singing out of tune with IEM on then check the mix. Sometimes if the music mix is out of balance the singer would compensate by singing light or over the top both are bad for staying in tune.
As for feed back, hmmm! that’s the job of FOH during sound check. If you are running IEMs setup you should not run into this problem. If it’s wireless monitor you everyone is wearing then make sure that there’s no Wifi interference. Check YouTube on the make and model to help troubleshoot the specific. Mine took a couple of weeks to work out the kinks.
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It can be very difficult to sing in tune if you can’t hear 1. what you’re singing to and 2. yourself.
When i was in high school, we had “battle of the airheads” which was basically the reverse of an air band: you got on stage with headphones on with the music loud enough that it was hard to hear yourself and and you sang into a live mic. It was very terrible and extremely funny 
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Hey @sshoihet
I just got this in last night. I preordered it. If you are looking for a fantastic mid forward set this is the one to have.
DUNU PRS 6
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Sweet, thanks! I hadn’t seen them yet, they look really nice too. I will check them out and do my very best to not buy them I’d been looking at things lately and it was a while since anything was really that interesting to me.
I just bought some momentum 5 earbuds so I’m not buying anything for a bit
I may have asked these questions already on some other thread, but if I did I have forgotten the answers and they should really be in an IEM thread anyway.
So keeping in mind that I don’t know what all the technical lingo means in terms of how these work–drivers, impedance, ohms, etc (and I don’t really want an explanation if it isn’t necessary)…
- Would I need a special something to plug the IEM into, or could I just plug them directly into the headphone jack on my DAI or my amp like I would any “normal” set of headphones?
- If I got a set of IEM for bass playing, could I also use them for regular music listening on my iPod or laptop or whatever?
- If the answer to #2 is yes, would IEM that was good for bass also sound good for general music listening, or would what sounded good for one sound bad for the other?
Maybe this all boils down to one more basic question - are IEMs really just another type of headphones just the same as over ears or earbuds are? Or is there something “special” about IEMs?
I’m sure there are tons of nuance and technical stuff, but I’m looking for a dumbed down version.
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