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hey everybody audio head here today we have the Estelle and Kern J H Jerry Harvey audio Lela Universal fit in ear monitors it's quite a doozy of a product it's a flagship piece the newest latest and greatest from Jerry Harvey kind of encapsulating all of the technology and efforts he's had thus far before we dive into the details I definitely want to let you guys know that this particular set of earphones runs around $2,500 so it is one of the most expensive pieces of in ear monitor ever made on top of that it's you know really really really high up there with just headphones in general full-size and the like so it's very very expensive piece the good news is however that it sounds pretty darn good if I have to say so so what does this thing this beast creation really look like has four times three drivers per ear that's a quad drivers one for mids one for highs and one for lows in addition to that it also allows you to adjust the bass inline in the cords so there is a frequency adjustment for the bass as to how much you kind of like right built into the chord that's adjustable by a screw driver so that in and of itself is unique and also very helpful because the thing with in-ear monitors is that they sometimes get a little bit funky when it comes to other Mountain the client ease of bass now the seal on your ear matters a great deal these being universal fit you have to get the right tips that work for you and the tips do change the response foam tips silicone tips big small double flange I have found small variances in the frequency response and other things in changing out the tips so get the right fit so you can get the base where you want it but on top of that there's another layer on this particular part that lets you pump it up or draw it back now that being said I actually found myself with these headphones I like it just a little bit more not a lot more this the amount of bass in ears is often even with a lot of the audiophile ones a little bit exaggerated a little bit bigger than what I'd like to consider neutral even just a little boost at full that is all the way turned up bays I found them to be really fun sounding perhaps a bit north of neutral but still really really good really really good presence and the amount of bass there so not really something that you'd want to do in terms of like monitoring or if you're really into a neutral sound but you can just back it off so you can turn the dial down I'd say all the way down it's very very based light but the range that he chose from you know zero to max is a good range and it tops out I think in a very very good sweet spot for bass the main vibe for these things is clarity and an out a sense of out of your head playing for an in-ear monitor there's a huge deal the the sound is generated so inside your ear canal doesn't have the outside of the ear to kind of bounce around and give a sense of reality or even just sense of air it's like in your head so to get that idea that it's like outside of your head even just a little bit more is a really big deal for in-ear monitors jerry has been tinkering quite a bit with phase and he has a product freak phased kind of element to a lot of his headphones that he's been working with and I think you know if I had to say anything from all the inners that it does have an impact on that out of the head experience and the cohesiveness in the in the tightness of the imaging which is something adding another level with these headphones there on another level they kind of leave all the others behind in terms of clarity and staging in that out of your head experience which I've already talked about so you know and and I not in terms of frequency response and that and that sort of thing they're very tight as well mids are good the treble is good and all of it is very balanced from top to bottom which has not always been the case with them within years there can be very difficult to kind of tame and maintain on the top end as well so these kind of do a really nice cohesive sound across from bottom to top now this specific model that we have here is sold by Estelle and Kern the people who also manufacture the high-end audio players like the 8k 240 the AAA 120 and they also have another high-end flagship that just came out and what you see here is actually a balanced cable that connects to those players that screws into the earpiece the connection the cable itself is actually a kind of an interesting custom connector it may be used in a couple of other ear pieces but it's it's somewhat rare for in-ear monitors it's got a four pin screw type connection that's pretty secure when you get it on there even feels a little more watertight than the traditional kind of two prong connection that gives you a little more flexibility when it comes to the dry it drives the individual drivers separately so that's how essentially you get the base adjustment for only the bass drivers or you could potentially you can have mid and treble drivers be separate in that case so as a whole one of the best if not the best sounding in-ear monitor I have ever heard on many levels for many reasons including obvious balance with adjustment to the base excellent smooth treble not overdone nice rich mids and a fun robust adjustable base and it gives you pretty much exactly what you'd want provide wide range of people all really were the good things all pretty cool technological advancements on a relatively small niche arena very cool stuff you know some of the cons for these headphones probably would be just really two points one the expense is very high at $2,500 you could buy a lot of really good gear for that but if you're into the best this is pretty much you that's designed for you know market for that mind people who want the very best so like I said number one it's pretty expensive number two they're quite large the carbon-fiber housing sits outside of the ear pretty much it hangs a little bit it doesn't quite go fit completely into your the the outside inner let's say part of your ear as some my or custom fit jerry harvey sells these directly as a custom fit which is usually the way to go although i would like to point out if you do a custom fit its it affects the resale value these guys you can sell them if you get tired to want the next best thing much easier than a pair of customs because you know obviously someone can just buy them straight from you without having to fiddle with all that other stuff so basically aside from that right now there's very little else to criticize these guys for because they are just so sweet and so nice really robust kind of feel all-around good hearty thing and a really fun fun albeit expensive piece to listen to let me know if you guys have any other questions this is the Jerry Harvey sold by Alliston current universal fit Layla's one little fun piece of audio no doubt thanks a lot have a good one