Just for health concerns I don't recommend IEMs/earphones at all even though I have used them myself and I even went ahead to make this video saying I will never recommend such in ear stuff.
Scratch all that below. I am taking a stance against Health big time and I am no longer recommending any products that has a very good potential of ruining your health forever which includes mobile gaming, retro handheld gaming and of course, this being the audio section, IEMs/Earphones.
P.S: I love money and I would love to review everything under the sun and just keep putting affiliate links everywhere BUT I don't want your money if it has the potential to make your health worse. Stupid stance, many will disagree and say "everything in moderation is okay" but I don't. And you are here to read/hear what I have to say.
However, I am forced to reconsider after a friend told me that someone who knows using a headphone also had problems even with using headhpones which I thought was really better than IEMs.
So, I guess all I am left with is speakers if you are a total klutz but more realistically, people who use any audio gear for a long time at high volume should take health concerns seriously and I will go into this more later, on how to actually avoid hearing problems with audio gear but it's going to be a huge effort but I will get to it eventually.
Till then, please check the same from actual ear doctors and what they say and not some random person on the internet.
Bolt:
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Glad you asked…or maybe you didn’t?
Anyways… almost everyone enjoys music that’s a no brainer. People be partying like crazy listening to the crappiest mixing ever known to man, dancing on festive seasons on bhakti/bassed boosted songs, some college student using his 500inr speaker on full volume enjoying his punjabi playlist of 2 artists utmost, or some 1-day couple listening to arijit like he is some divine singer with one ear piece shoved in both of their ears or maybe some naked women on tiktok dancing on a song.
See a pattern here? NO…!? Nevermind… lemme roll back a bit. I think most people will say someone is a audiophile is that person that enjoys music PERIOD. Which is almost true but its not the full story until you get of this cheap ass no hoes youtubers that recommend you audio gear that at times feels like a war crime, makes me wanna stab those motherfuckers!... to me music goes beyond listening and moving my body to a song and i feel like a lot of people feel like that…
They wanna hear not for the sake of the lyrics or that muddy beat drop or a solo instrument that they lust over… over some cheap earpiece or speaker and whatnot recommended by those same no hoes youtubers or got the cheapest stuff on sale at amazon, flipkart or whatever…
Some just wanna hear actual details coming out of their gear like … some just want clarity as in they can separate out instruments in a song that otherwise feels like very linear or maybe just want a vocal centric gear that actually highlights the artist in a way that the artist intended or just want a huge soundstage as in you are sitting right in front of your favorite band and they are playing solely for you.. and not just feel like they are some villain in a movie just because of some song playing on some fucked speaker.. At least fulfil your fantasy listening on a better audio gear ffs!…
Now do you see what im talking about? People who enjoys music as well as the music in a way that the artist intended .. For me this is when one qualifies as a audiophile in my books.
ni6hant:" Fucking hate the bhakti songs bass boosted and also love songs being given bhakti lyrics. I stopped going to gym because they kept playing the same punjabi songs over and over again. I don't understnad the obsession with Arijit Singh at all. Fuck that "Hum tere bin ab jee nahi sakte" song in particular. "
Let me address the elephant in the room.
It's not that just because something is expensive it means it has a better quality.
Even if some fu**ing youtuber says oh it's ₹20k for some headphones doens't automatically make it the best headphones in the world, or god forbid they get a sponsorship from the most a$$ audio company in the world like Ptron cough…. Boat cough cough…. U get the jist…
These same youtubers start calling it the best headphone/earphone in its price range and start barking out the most ass features like 50hrs of playback, its wireless hahahah, you get a button to switch on the most shit anc.. It's better if I just stuff my ear with cotton then use their horrendous anc..
And for audio quality these fu**s only know two things…
Never ever buy from tech youtubers especially indian ones that do phone and gaming pc reviews unless you want to be delusional and think wow i spended 30k on a iem/headphone from his recommendation wow im gonna get the best sound quality in the world.. No bud you ain’t getting s#!t!! You just filled that hoes pocket.
I will recommend some guys like HeadphoneZone on youtube or Andy Audio Vault for starting out on knowledge and recommendation or headphones for iems… and as you learn and start picking out a gear you like you can just start researching for that particular gear and eventually find more good youtubers for their reviews as audiophile community has a lot of intertwined gear so… if you like a gear chances are one guy or another has made a review on that particular gear that you are interested in and at least he will actually educate you about the audio gear that you are going to buy…
But it will be expensive right? And the answer will be a big fat NO! Well unless you want a 500inr audio gear than most probably not…i haven’t heard any good gear in that price range so a no from my side… but neither is a 20k inr starting line for starting out. You can buy a good ranged gear(IEMs) around around 2-7k INR trust me there are some lower option but better not buy them as there are durability issues and unit variances … Especially the companies like KZ and FatFreq, be cautious if buying from them, better save a decent amount then buy your desired gear…