Ultimate Ears UE-11 Pro

One of the best in the world, the UE-11 Pro are Ultimate Ears' newest flagship IEM, and naturally their most expensive. Requiring custom ear molds to be made into the completely customizable inserts they just might be the most luxurious and comfortable IEM out there, but this means you won't be able to sell them if your wallet starts to feel the pain.

With a slightly less neutral sound than their still-available UE-10 pro, the UE-11 takes musicality to a level to a new hight for in ear monitors. Featuring a 4-driver armature design, the UE-11 can reproduce frequencies even full sized headphones have difficulty with, but like most high quality, low impedance IEMs, the UE-11 requires a good source and dedicated IEM amplifier to sound its best. If you don't mind taking $1500 dollar earphones out of the house, these would be ideal for high fidelity travel and on-the-go listening, with a decent amount of background noise isolation. However, a full size headphone rig might get you further for your money if you're planning on stationary listening.