After getting a set of Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10vi, I knew I would probably never get a headset of such high quality. Unfortunately, it was only useful with my iPhone and I would never be able to enjoy using it as a headset with my computer. Thankfully, I learned many months later about a product called the "Headset Buddy" from a niche market group called Webko. Despite the cheesey sounding name, the Headset Buddy is actually quite a useful product.
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Aside from the giant consumer electronics companies out there, most people have not heard of the smaller brands such as Grado Labs, located in Brooklyn, NY. No, they don't have the marketing budget of Bose, and they don't have the production capability of Sony. What is it about Grado that keeps them alive? As a small family business, the Grado family has been making headphones for over half a decade. Instead of tuning their designs to have a perfect frequency response wave, as long as it sound's good to the owner-- it's good enough for his customers. Building each part by hand in the USA (with exception of the iGrado headphones), Grado's quality has an old-time feel to it, much like when you buy a table from a local furniture store rather than Ikea.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
Maybe that quote is a little too much, but the JH Audio JH-16 Pro custom in-ear monitors are very darn close to magic. If you want to know the background of JH Audio, please check out my review of the JH-5M custom in-ear monitor. Essentially, the JH-16 Pro is the JH-5M on crack. Imagine the pure awesomeness of those two drivers pouring delicious music right into your ear canals while muffling everything else surrounding you, times four. That's right, instead of two drivers per speaker, there's eight!! That's simply INSANE!
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What your $1,149 gets you
Picking up from Part 1 and Part 2--
In the past 2 parts of the review, I discussed the creation and sound of the JH Audio JH-M line. Still, I haven't covered why anyone would get the JH-M instead of the JH-Pro series of custom IEMs. Today, I took the JH-5Ms out on a Harley Davidson 883 Custom Sportster with twin straight pipes. Those of you who know about this bike know that it is LOUD! Harley Davidsons are known to be loud, but with no mufflers they are even louder. It's like a V-twin screaming into your feet! It seemed like it would be the perfect application of a JH-5M test.
The beautiful Harley Davidson XL883 Custom Sportster I used
Picking up from Part 1--
Less than a few weeks from placing the order, your custom earbuds arrive. Shipped from near Orlando, Florida, your headphones will arrive in a small fabric drawstring bag and earwax cleaning tool inside an OtterBox 1000 keeping it protected from all the elements could throw at it. The box is very strong made out of Polycarbonate, the same material as bulletproof plastic and what Nalgene bottles are made out of. They are crushproof, waterproof, and can float. The top of the box is labeled with the JH Audio logo, phone number, web address, and a small window is embedded that says whatever you want it to. Mine says "pnosker.com" of course.
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