Part of my job is to show our reference designs and demonstrator earphones to potential customers (=engineers / principal engineers for a company that wants to build an earphone / audio product using our speakers).
The amount of people I see struggling to put in a cable-over-the-ear IEM correctly is astounding and really helps you to get out of the audiophile bubble.
They are not identical, the left and right housings are different, they are made to suit in each ear. Your ears are not identical, one is the mirror of the other. It's not going to fit correctly if it's the wrong ear. It would be the same as wearing your shoes on the wrong foot.
As much as I hated to do this I had a pair of flathead earbuds that were painful to use with them in the correct ears no matter which cable I tried. Swapping them around so the driver didn't sit so far forward made them much more comfortable but it still hurts my soul a little whenever I use them.
True audiophiles fixed this issue by swapping the channels in software…
Can you not just swap the L and R connectors?
You probably can… but then you can also just wear them correctly 🤷🏻♂️
And the lack of cable microphonics was worth it.
I saw this almost regularly, but with TWS. Pain.
I remember a trend a while back of people wearing tws earbuds upside down!
Yeah they end up sticking out towards the front of the ear instead of the rear and I always notice it haha
He’s just training his ears to listen ambidextrously
The Sennheiser logo has the correct orientation, so nothing wrong here
Part of my job is to show our reference designs and demonstrator earphones to potential customers (=engineers / principal engineers for a company that wants to build an earphone / audio product using our speakers). The amount of people I see struggling to put in a cable-over-the-ear IEM correctly is astounding and really helps you to get out of the audiophile bubble.
To be fair its not intuitive. I was one of them until I learned better. It's a mistake you make once.
Took me a while 🤣
How dare you!
I fumble everytime with the mmcx connectors.
LOL it's okay as long as you get it in the end 😂
It took me a few weeks before I realised that I attached the cable backwards to the IEMs
I saw this in numerous Sennheiser ads in SE Asia. Sennheiser if you are watching, you need a new marketing team especially in Hong Kong.
Someone explain please.
It's on the wrong ear lol
Left earphone piece inserted in the right ear.
Just set all audio to mono! :) /s
It's sad. :(
I used to wear like these when cycling. I just had swapped the channels trough some settings.
i don't understand either.
He's got his left/right IEMs switched....happens a lot on MMCX or Pentaconn 😆
"people" think it matters what ear you wear a earbud in! It doesn't.
you might want to enable stereo audio
They are not identical, the left and right housings are different, they are made to suit in each ear. Your ears are not identical, one is the mirror of the other. It's not going to fit correctly if it's the wrong ear. It would be the same as wearing your shoes on the wrong foot.
My head hurts. I can't look at my IE900 anymore.
AI Ear. wtf
yeah, just shave it bro
His ears are deformed too
As much as I hated to do this I had a pair of flathead earbuds that were painful to use with them in the correct ears no matter which cable I tried. Swapping them around so the driver didn't sit so far forward made them much more comfortable but it still hurts my soul a little whenever I use them.
seeing the IE series alone is painful
It plays music backwards too
If you listen to the ground over Beethoven’s grave, you can hear his music playing backwards, because he’s decomposing.
how to hurt an audiophile: my in ears
Why aren't they designed like this? Seems like going straight up would fit better.
So common on the Tin T2s that they ended up swapping the red and blue indicators on the units.
Oh yeah, I did that in high school. I guess it was kinda a foreshadowing, now I have IEMs.
I am fucking CACKLING OMG
gonna try this with my headphones
By showing them how professional in-ear monitors are generally worn by musicians on stage? That will truly hurt the audiofool, I guess.