Hearing those monitors - Use of earphones

[trickyricky]

Hello to all!
Does anybody out there in "conga-land" use earphones instead of a big monitor sitting in front of you? I am talking about the in-ear kind. If so, what is your experience with them? Do you like or no? Do you recommend a certain brand? I noticed musician's friend has some Shure E2 Sound Isolating earphones. Any help you can give will be appreciated. You could even buy them for me if you like :p
Thanks
rick

[gilbert]

i've done some research about that and found out that the Shure E5 and E500 are the best because they give the full range of sounds but its around 500 $ :-S

[caballoballo]

Rumberos,I prefer the 2 side monitor because while playing the montuno (Salsa) I am dancing at the same time with the Campana so a headphone in my ear would be an impediment. I seen Trumpets players using it. IMHO a salsa band is too loud for the percussion section to be able to listen thru headphones.

[trickyricky]

YIKES!! $500!?! Too much for me. I am still looking into the Shure E2 for $99. That is still a bit much. Anybody else with any ideas?

Thanks again
rick

[onile]

Alafia Abures!
I hope that you are all well and in an abundance of blessings!

I presently have the Sure E2s, I use them on occassion with my pre-mixer (Berhinger 1202), and they actually work quite well. The challenge however is, if you want to get full monitors (the entire band/group), you'll need to run a cable from your main PA system into your pre-mixer, providing you use one. Other than that, I'm not sure how you'll get the sound into your in-ear monitors (IEMs).

I will say this though, maybe I might be insterting them too lightly into my ear canal, but some of the 'ambient' noise still filters through.

Many blessings!

Onile!