I got IEMs early this year and I was enjoying them quite a bit. I’ve avoided them for a long time because they always hurt my ears but I got some nice third party eartips this time and it was relatively painless. A few months in though it started kind of hurting my ear to put it in in the right ear. I tried my third party tips and the stock tips but whenever I put them in it makes a painful sound. Not the earbud, like, the ear tip. I’ve checked and it doesn’t seem to be wax in my ear. I can get it in the first time and deal with the sound but whenever I adjust it to seal properly as it comes undone or just little movements, I can’t deal with that. I guess I’m not meant for IEMs.
@SweetAmelia iems are definitely a personal journey, it takes a lot of tries to find the ones that suit your ears - some iems have longer ear shafts than others and it’ll hurt regardless of eartip. just look around for next time and find one that fits for smaller ears! good luck!
@rachie I don’t know if it’s a size thing at this point, I had already refunded one set of well recommended third party ear tips and I think this set had the smallest size (“SSS” ) I could find as well as two more pairs of also small but slightly bigger eartips, it seems to happen no matter what >.<. idk if the iem’s ear stem thing is longer than normal or not.
@SweetAmelia it’s probably the ear stem ;; there’s a reason as well that big artists spend big money on iems, if it doesn’t fit properly it hurts like a bitch xS