The Best In-Ear Monitors (IEMs) in Summer 2023

Hey there, I’m one of the authors of the article, Fc-Construct. That’s a fair question and one I tried to address as much as possible in there. To reiterate - neither of us (Precogvision or I) have heard every IEM out there and we can only recommend the items we’ve heard. I haven’t heard any of Fatfreq’s products and I believe Precogvision has only heard the Maestro Mini. I’ve tried reaching out to a rep from Fatfreq before to see if I can do a round-up of their line-up like I did with 64 Audio but I have yet to hear back from them.

And really, that’s one of the two biggest challenges with being a reviewer: time and access. My work as a reviewer is mostly done in my free time as a hobby as I do have a completely unrelated day job and career I focus on. The IEM market moves so fast that it’s hard to find the time to keep up with everything. And even if I had time, it’s hard to get access. I was able to write a review of the entire 64 Audio line-up because Headphones.com was able to send them to me. But Headphones.com doesn’t carry Fatfreq so it’s hard for me to get my hands on them to try.

So to your point, yes there is a technically slight tendency (or bias) towards the products that Headphones.com does carry because those are the ones that I can actually try. And generally speaking, the shop purposefully carries a limited selection of high quality products (since the shop can know via our reviews what’s worth carrying or not) so that seeming “bias” is further compounded. I’d love to review a much wider variety of products but its hard without time and access.

And before I get asked, no, I don’t make any commission with Headphones.com :slight_smile: The reviewers have nothing to do with the sales side of things. I only write reviews.

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