For years Sennheiser, one of the world’s leading headphone manufacturers, was only known for one model of in-ear phones, the CX 300 – and those weren’t even Sennheiser designs, but an OEM product made by Foster Japan. With the success of the relatively inexpensive CX 300 and other models of the CX series it was only a matter of time until Sennheiser went for the higher priced market, competing with brands like Ultimate Ears or Shure, with products aimed at more discerning listeners and audio professionals. Thus the Sennheiser IE series of in-ear phones was born. In this case ‘IE’ very likely stands for ‘In-Ear’, unlike certain web-browsing software from Redmond, WA. While they’re not exactly IEMs suited for professional monitoring applications, they sure are among the quality choices for hi-fi listening… The audio snobs we are, we’re not wasting any time on the IE 6 or 7 – we’ll go for the fancy flagship IE 8 right away and put them through their paces.

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For years Sennheiser, one of the world’s leading headphone manufacturers, was only known for one model of in-ear phones, the CX 300 – and those weren’t even Sennheiser designs, but an OEM product made by Foster Japan. With the success of the relatively inexpensive CX 300 and other models of the CX series it was only a matter of time until Sennheiser went for the higher priced market, competing with brands like Ultimate Ears or Shure, with products aimed at more discerning listeners and audio professionals. Thus the Sennheiser IE series of in-ear phones was born. In this case ‘IE’ very likely stands for ‘In-Ear’, unlike certain web-browsing software from Redmond, WA. While they’re not exactly IEMs suited for professional monitoring applications, they sure are among the quality choices for hi-fi listening… The audio snobs we are, we’re not wasting any time on the IE 6 or 7 – we’ll go for the fancy flagship IE 8 right away and put them through their paces.

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