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Ultimate ears UE-7 IEMs, custom molded to the listener have excellent noise rejection and eliminate the need for any sort of noise-cancelling microphone/DSP hardware as they're molded to your ears and block out the world.

If you want to do mastering with IEMs, the UE Reference monitors were developed with Columbia studios and are extremely accurate.

Forgive the fact that UE was bought by Logitech, who manufactures less than stellar user interface devices. Ultimate Ears are amazing.

I'm not even sure what the poster is looking for here. Simple physics get in the way of most of the lower cost designs. You can't block out the world without a proper fit (molds), you can't pack a ton of circuitry into the IEMs without size being a factor, and it requires tuning and alignment to make these devices accurate.

There's a reason why UE's are expensive - Someone has to hand build and align them. It's worth it.

http://blog.logitech.com/2009/06/11/behind-the-scenes-ultima...