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Basically earbuds, but if someone uses the acronym outside the context of stage or studio work, they are trying to tell everyone that they only use earbuds that are qUaLitY
The shape is significantly different than traditional earbuds, they generally isolate sound better, and they almost always have a removable cable.
You can get really cheap ones, but the name actually does tell you stuff.
I used to be a stage and studio musician, and I still use customs outside of that context. I'm just saying that if I'm talking to someone about casual listening, there's no way I'm specifying "IEMs" over "earbuds". IMO same kind of energy as saying "I used my Arch desktop" when you could say "I used my computer"
"IEMs" is shorter to type than "earbuds". You mistake my laziness for something other than what it is.
P.S.
I use Void. :p
😂 🤷 Ya that didn't occur to me; prolly cuz I think I think I've only ever typed IEM when doing a search, so didn't think about typing-length. But I still stand that that's the vibe it gives off in casual conversation.
IDK. Earbuds are a different thing. I call them IEMs because that's what they are.🤷🏼♀️
They're IEMs, and earphones are a colloquialism. Nobody is stuck up if they call it an IEM, if someone doesn't know we extrapolate for them. I don't see the problem.
I am an IEM enjoyer (used to own Softears but don't need them anymore), and I use Debian.
A true Debian user would never tell us that they use Debian. They would say they use Debian Testing’. BTW.
I mean it's not a problem. I'm just letting you know that if you use a technical term instead of the colloquial one in a casual conversation on an unrelated topic, to me it reads less like "we can extrapolate" and more like "I'm using this word specifically because I want to extrapolate". Not bad per se, cuz idk maybe someone will figure out they love in-ears from this thread. But def that's my first interpretretation when i read something like iem in a post about airplanes.
Edit ps: I also love how everyone is responding to this with their distro 😂 optimal response