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Jerry Harvey got into the headphone business by making in-ear
monitors for just a few musician friends, and went on to build
headphones for hundreds of bands, and now counts Mary J. Blige,
Godsmack, Guns 'N' Roses, Alicia Keys, Eddie Vedder, and the
Glee Live Tour as customers.  Harvey pioneered two-way
(bass/treble) in-ear designs in 1995, and later the first three-
way (bass, mid, treble) in-ear monitors. Harvey's multiple
driver designs produce less distortion and increase dynamic
range compared with conventional single-driver headphones, which
include all of the standard headphones from Etymotic, Monster,
Skullcandy, Sony, etc. The JH16 Pro I'm reviewing here is the
world's first eight-driver, three-way in-ear headphone, and its
sound is revelatory.  I reviewed the JH Audio's 13 Pro in-ear
headphones last year in this blog, and the JH16 shares a lot of
the same technology, but the bi