Looking at Wireless In-Ear Monitors

[efrisch]

Originally Posted by bluenotemkvi

My biggest complaint is the lack of bass response out of the included earphones. Perhaps a higher-end set of earbuds would help

Definitely. I've got the PSM-200 as well, and while the included buds are nothing to laugh at, there's definitely room to improve. I've been working with these for the last year or so and couldn't be happier with the fit and the improved response over the Shures.

[bluenotemkvi]

Yeah, when I have a spare $300 I might think about it. Not in the budget this year I'm afraid.

[Rocky Presley]

Thanks Travis for saying what I was going to! We are creating an environment of worship, which may or may not mean rockin' guitar. Some places do see that as different though, and if your gig calls for an environment pushing 100+ db in a mid sized room, then you can overcome the noise floor that a cranked guitar amp would provide, and all of us FOH guys will be jealous that you get that gig and we have to keep it at 87 dB every Sunday!

On topic, we also use the Sennheiser IEM300's and have been fairly impressed with their performance, although I would say that to get 4 stereo channels with the included ear buds and stay under your budget. One thing that I haven't been able to overcome is the wireless transmission. We use an aviom system to distrubute the sound to our wireless ears, and our wired Avioms and the wireless units are like night and day. We are hoping that with an impending wireless update, that this problem will be resolved. The noise in the wireless is fairly annoying, so we only use wireless where absolutly necessary (singers, worship leader). For the musicians, we keep them wired.

[Aletheia]

Another thumbs up here for the Shure PSM series (use both the 200 and 400 series for our bands). In ears in general were a "transition" for our guys, but as mentioned before it was totally worth it for us and for the congregation.

I liken it to recording with a click track in the studio: at first it is challenging and feels "forced". You'd rather just "feel" the song and rock out like you're used to. But the more you play with it the easier it becomes AND the better a musician you become.

Back to the original post... the AT are probably a great buy. I can speak from experience that the Shure PSM 200 (wired and wireless) are excellent choices.

Cheers