We continue our $50k gear giveaway with Lime Ears Model X Custom IEM! Just keep reading and enter the giveaway!

Last week’s Winners

The C3 Audio cable giveaway is now over! The lucky winners will be contacted shortly by email (check your spam folder), so make sure to get in touch.

Number 35

As promised and explained earlier, we’ll be doing a year long of weekly giveaways and last September was the start of our 52-week celebration. For this 35th round of the biggest audio giveaway the world has ever seen, we’re giving away a custom IEM set of Lim Ears’ Model X! That is a $999 USD custom monitor! This excellent CIEM can become yours and all you have to do is … sign up and leave a comment. Any comment is good but tell me what the best IEM is you ever listened to.

But first, let’s look at Lime Ears and the Model X you can win.

About Lime Ears

From Linus’ Model X review:

Lime Ears is a Polish CIEM company that has been around for some years now. They started out working with professional sound engineers and musicians but have shifted their focus on the audiophile consumers a while ago with their triple driver and their flagship Aether.

Emil luckily gave me a little history lesson about Lime Ears:

The company history is dated back to 2010 when, after graduating from the university (I’m a sound engineer by education) I was working as acoustic designer specializing in room acoustics of concert halls, cinemas and theaters as well as noise control in such places. I was an active bass player, performing with several rock bands. With one of them we started rehearsing in recording studios. With all instruments mic’ed up we used big over-ear headphones as our monitors. I was blown away with by clarity and quality of them. I started to be interested in in-ear monitors then. I looked around Google and found out about CIEMs. Back at the university I met Karolina who was an audiologist by education and had some prior experience in making the earmolds. I thought: why not to make the CIEMs then? After two long years of sourcing the materials, prototyping, attempts and fails to manufacture something useful I’ve got to the point when I thought that all this went so far that it should transform into a boutique company. We started Lime Ears as a duo in 2012. Slowly gaining recognition among Polish musicians, eventually we started gaining interest from the audiophile community around the world. Now, after five years of official existence, we’re working as a four-people team providing monitors for the majority of the Polish music scene, as well as getting more and more attention internationally from both professional musicians and the audiophile community.

Having the Aether as our extremely well-received flagship, the Model X fills the gap between LE3S and Aether. Like I said, I have may years of experience in room acoustics and noise control. And regarding to CIEMs my biggest interest is the methods of tuning them by changing the size and shape of the path that sound is travelling to your ear from the transducer. Implementation of acoustic filters, lengths, shapes and diameters of the canals enables to squeeze out some new qualities even from widely-used transducers. Thus the technologies we used in Model X are connected with this realm.

The Model X

The Model X fills the gap between the LE3S and Aether models and the goal was to achieve a powerful sound while maintaining great clarity and precision. The 4-driver Model X has not one but two popular signatures, which can be easily changed with a flip of switch: choose either the “perfect neutral” or the “warm and musical” depending on how you feel today!

You can find out all about the Model X on Lime Ears’ website here: https://limeears.com/model-x/

Of course we have reviewed the Model X on HFN and you can find the full review here:

Winner

The lucky winner will his/her unit shipped directly by Lime Ears. Lime Ears will cover the shipping fee of the CIEM to you but neither Headfonia or Lime Ears will not cover any other expenses such as VAT, import fees, tax, etc. This is all the winner’s responsibility so if you’re not up for that, it’s best not to enter. Lime Ears also won’t lower the unit’s value for shipping and it’s up to you to get a good set of ear impressions and send it to Lime Ears in Poland. It’s up to you and Lime Ears to talk about the faceplate options, etc.

In order to enter the competition you need to do the following steps:

Fill out the form on the page linked below. Use a real full name/surname to enter the contest (partial name entries are no longer accepted) + real email address as this is the address we will use to contact the winner

to enter the contest (partial name entries are no longer accepted) + real email address as this is the address we will use to contact the winner Leave a comment on this post you’re reading here. Preferably telling me what the best IEM is you ever listened to.

And while you’re at it like the Lime Ears and Headfonia Facebook pages HERE and HERE, if you haven’t already.

The winners will be chosen at random out of those that completed all 2 steps!

After signing up you’ll get a personal link to share. For each new participant that enters via your personal link on Twitter, Google+ or Facebook, etc. you get an extra chance to win! Make sure you share/use the referrer link! By entering the giveaway you agree to the rules shown under the “ENTER” button.

Participants will be contacted by email after subscribing, so by participating all entrants also accept us to email them. Do check your spam folder, but if you didn’t get an email you’re still entered. (Gmail addresses receive it slow/late! Don’t request us to check your entry)

The winner of the Lime Ears Model X will be announced next Monday as usual. That means you have till Sunday evening to enter this Lime Ears giveaway!

Thank you Lime Ears for doing this with us! Good luck to everyone!

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY, leave a comment below and then , CLICK HERE:

https://www.headfonia.com/giveaway/giveaway-35-lime-ears-model-x

GOOD LUCK