# General purchase advice: Ask your questions/for advice here! **URL:** \ **Category:** I need advice!\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/general-purchase-advice-ask-your-questions-for-advice-here/6620 "2020-05-18T17:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2916
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I agree totally with @pennstac about ANC headphones, they are great for long droning sounds (such as airplanes etc.) but are not great for general noisy enviroments. Passive noise cancelling, such as IEMs, works much better for these kind of situations. If you haven’t tried IEMs, then probably something in the cheaper end of the market would be a good starting point. For example, the Aria are a great set of IEMs for their price, check out the Moondrop thread for reviews from myself and others. Here are links to some reviews: > [@Moondrop In-Ear Monitors and Ear Buds](https://forum.headphones.com/t/moondrop-in-ear-monitors-and-ear-buds/3342/164): > > As always, this review is also available in Spanish on my blog and on YouTube, links at the end of the review. Moondrop Aria [image] The Moondrop Aria was offered to me with a discount by HifiGo, for which I am grateful as this was an IEM that I was very interested in trying due to my previous good experiences with Moondrop. I have not received any specific requests from HifiGo, so, as always, these will be my own opinions, keeping them as honest and unbiased as possible, but it is always go… > [@Moondrop In-Ear Monitors and Ear Buds](https://forum.headphones.com/t/moondrop-in-ear-monitors-and-ear-buds/3342/154): > > [[image]](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bFEBDf0csc/YJDIHG2C4NI/AAAAAAABctk/CN8a5wN8itwn8W2LMnH_z5gZ3wNOfiQhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20210503_190851.jpg) The Aria is Moondrop’s latest in-ear monitor (IEM) and also one of its most compelling ones. It’s priced at just $79 USD and may dethrone their more expensive product lines. I guess in the world of IEMs nowadays, releases come out so often and so quickly, each one needs to one-up the next in both price and performance I feel like the Aria is one of those shakers. First off, the Aria was provided to be by the HifiGo Store for this review. This product can be purchased directly from thei… > [@Moondrop In-Ear Monitors and Ear Buds](https://forum.headphones.com/t/moondrop-in-ear-monitors-and-ear-buds/3342/149): > > The Moondrop Starfield was already an incredible IEM for the price. With the Moondrop Aria, you get a much better cable and slightly better technical performance at a lower price. While I do not feel that the Aria offers technical improvements significant enough to warrant a purchase from existing Starfield owners, if you’re just getting into IEMs, you would be hard-pressed to do better than the Aria at the sub-$100 price point. My full review, with measurements, additional images,… If you want to go cheaper, you can check out the [The Ultra Cheap IEM Thread](https://forum.headphones.com/t/the-ultra-cheap-iem-thread/1963) that has lot’s of budget options and reviews, the thread is over 1000 posts long, so maybe start from the end and work back a little looking for photos that usually accompany reviews. Things like the Tanchjim Tanya are great for a very low price. The isolation of IEMs can vary a lot from brand to brand, and also depends a lot on the tips used. The kings of isolation are Etymotic (which is to be expected as they make hearing protection) and their IEMs get good reviews. The ER2 series is within your $200 budget (at least it is in Europe and US, I don’t know about Panama) and has lots of praise. I personally don’t have experience with Etymotic as I don’t like the deep insertion of IEMs and the Etymotic do have deep insertion, this is something that adds to isolation of course. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.headphones.com/t/general-purchase-advice-ask-your-questions-for-advice-here/6620)._