Moondrop Quarks IEMs (without Mic) $8.99 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ SHENZHENAUDIO AU STORE via Amazon AU

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Arrives after Christmas First Delivery showing Friday 3rd January.

for those who don’t know these are wired earphones that go inside your ear canal. that’s what a iem is.

previously didn’t post for $11.90. now all time low of $8.99.
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normally around $18.

really need to be on prime though or +$51 order otherwise delivery is almost the same price as the product.

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  aussieprepper on 15/12/2024 - 02:05

  How do these compared to the Chu? I have the Chu they are great.

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  pacificstorm on 15/12/2024 - 03:17

  I have these and it punches way above its price. Superb SQ and is my daily commute because of its size factor.

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  cerealsmok3r on 15/12/2024 - 05:30

  are there any alternatives for ones with a mic?

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    FarKen on 15/12/2024 - 09:01

    Click 'Go to deal'
    On Amazon click the option 'with mic'
    Simples

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  knobbs on 15/12/2024 - 08:08

  I have never been much in the audio know but a lot of steamers have IEMs now. Are they really that much better to hear?

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    Aureus on 15/12/2024 - 11:46

    I don't think IEMs are better in sound quality over bulky over-ear headphones. They are just more comfortable and stay in your ear better then earbuds. High-end IEMs are also used by musicians for live performances.

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    Gyr on 15/12/2024 - 15:40

    They are worse than headphones, but esports pros use them because when they play events they have to use full noise cancelling headphones provided by the tournament over the top of their own IEMs.

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  Russ on 15/12/2024 - 12:18

  +1

  earphones that go inside your ear canal. that’s what a iem is.

  Although there's no "official" definition of what "In-Ear Monitor" means, it's usually much more than just that.

  Usually they give much higher audio fidelity than standard headphones, by a couple of methods. One method is to have multiple drivers in each earpiece, with each driver tailored to reproduce different audio frequencies, just like full-size speakers with bass, midrange and tweeters.

  Another method is to use a higher-quality "speaker", like a balanced armature instead of a voice coil:

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Balanced_armature

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    BinaryPirate on 15/12/2024 - 13:26

    Aren't monitors supposed to give you unmodified sound - i.e no EQ/freq tweaking - so the user can hear the most natural version of the source so they can hear what needs adjusting when recording or can more precisely tailor the sound to their tastes when simply listening to something?

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      Russ on 15/12/2024 - 14:24

      A "monitor" used to mean a studio-quality speaker, as used in a recording studio, so yes.

      All sound transducers have a "response curve", showing how well they approximate that "most natural version" of the sound. And the word "approximate" is appropriate here, every sound transducer will modify the sound to some extent. The sound can be shaped - bass speakers, for example, sound completely different when suspended in the air than when they are mounted in a speaker box.

      To achieve high fidelity, literally "high accuracy between the recorded sound and the sound produced", speakers and headphones have to overcome the limitations of the sound transducers they are using, to reduce how much they modify the sound.

      You can, to an extent, carefully design the enclosure around a single transducer, to balance out the deficiencies of that transducer. But that only goes so far, and is why, even today, a typical speaker system has a subwoofer, midrange speakers, and tweeters. It's much easier to produce "natural sound" by using several speakers, each "specialising" in a particular section of the audio spectrum.

      Just like speakers, professional IEMs have multiple drivers too. There's as IEM pictured in the Wikipedia article I linked above, with eight drivers in each earpiece.

      But as "IEM" is not a licensed term, many headphone makers have started throwing it into the descriptions of their headphones, in an attempt to associate with the higher audio quality that comes from having multiple drivers.

      So just like many SD cards have a silly number of superlatives attached to their names ("ultra pro plus" etc.), it seems IEM has become the new now-meaningless superlative to be attached to headphones with a single driver.

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  DustyAfternoon on 15/12/2024 - 14:38

  I like the canal design, but wired is a no-go since the death of the 3.5mm jack.

  Is there an IEM-style canal fit that has Bluetooth, ANC, and other creature comforts?

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    snep on 15/12/2024 - 14:47

    Many. Not for $8.99 though

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      DustyAfternoon on 15/12/2024 - 15:43

      Any suggestions at that higher price point? I’ve looked before and couldn’t find any.

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  Zippy7 on 15/12/2024 - 14:50

  $20.99 now

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  Jikx on 15/12/2024 - 14:56

  These are my go to for sleeping with.. the wire is slightly chunky however.

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  mitty on 15/12/2024 - 15:17

  I haven't really used wired headphones/buds for a very long time now, but one of the things I recall from back in the day is the cable hitting your body as you walk would cause noise as you moved (though only on certain wired earbuds that I had many years ago). Do these suffer from that?

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    HangryCakeStore on 15/12/2024 - 15:18

    That’s how energy transfer works lol