LOL! I know how this sounds, but I like the $9 Skull Candy Jibs better than some $2000 stuff. And that's w/o any EQ. It is what it is. That said, I'm no IEM expert.
"Anyway, if he found nirvana at $50 then more power to him"
Pretty much this, yeah. I actually envy some people who can find no wrong with $5 earbuds, leaves them with a lot more money for other crap. That said, I still get emotional listening to certain songs over my cruddy laptop speakers— higher fidelity and performance is nice, very nice in fact, but music you love is still music you love.
I agree with him that the Harman target curve is pretty much ideal. Disagree that "minimal distortion" covers *all* other relevant technicalities. I have an open mind, but experience says otherwise.
The Harmon curve is for headphones, not iems. It may be great for some folks, but definitely not everyone using iems.
Also, FR is a great starting point. A perfectly EQ'd crappy iem is often a better experience than a technically superior earphone with odd spikes and dips. That doesn't make a low-end iem into a high-end one, though. It makes for an excellent low-end iem.
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