The thought of losing your hearing should petrify musicians and audiophiles alike. Although you can make like Beethoven and chomp on some metal to induce jawbone conduction, we think it’s just much simpler to take care of your ears. While there’s an inherent risk to your hearing with any personal audio equipment like headphones, earbuds, or in-e...

Many professional musicians, producers, and engineers, including GRAMMY Award winners Michael Graves, Jeremiah Adkins, Sonny Emory, and Crystal Nicole, use Empire Ears in-ear monitors as their primary performance and production tools. There are many benefits to using our in-ear monitors in the professional realm - from the reference quality audi...

It’s crowded and noisy in the pho restaurant where I met with an old friend of Empire Ears, Tyler Toms. We bumped shoulders with neighboring tables and shouted over the din of the lunchtime rush while we caught up and talked working in the music industry. He’s been using our ears for years and when we approached him for an interview he jumped at...

There have never been more options from sound signature, application, and style in the audio equipment world than there are right now. For the casual consumer, this is great news but for the music industry professional or audiophile, trying to find the right product that is reliable and delivers what you need among all that noise can be a nightm...

The human ear is a network of auditory channels, membranes and nerves culminating in a complicated and wonderful sensory organ. Working in conjunction with the bilateral primary auditory cortex it converts the transmission of sound waves into sensory data that our brain interprets and extracts usable information from, such as the origin, intensi...