[Arny Krueger]

"bob" wrote in message

On Jan 25, 10:15=A0am, Audio Empire
wrote:

Since it is so easy to make great-sounding CDs, and I
would think that it would take more time and effort to
screw one up, my only conclusion would have to be that
for some reason, this (seemingly) industry-wide practice
= of giving us less than they can and calling it more
must be on purpose. OTOH= , I can't think of a single
reason why this should be so, can you?

One reason that's been suggested is that they are
optimizing for the earbud listener, not the owner of a
good in-room audio system.

I wonder if people are talking about what they don't understand. In general,
good quality IEMs perform not that much unlike good speakers.

I don't know how one would optimize SQ for good quality IEMs without also
doing a good job for loudspeaker listeners.