About this collection
Westone's story starts in 1959, when Ron Morgan Sr. began building custom hearing-aid earpieces near Divide, Colorado, work that eventually passed to his son Randy Morgan and grew into what became the largest custom earpiece manufacturer in the world. That hearing-healthcare foundation is easy to overlook once you're looking at an audiophile IEM catalog, but it's the reason Westone's fit and comfort engineering is as good as it is: decades spent building products for ears that had no choice but to fit correctly.
It's also why Westone ended up at the center of in-ear monitor history rather than on the sidelines of it. Working under R&D twins Karl and Kris Cartwright, Westone became the first company to design and manufacture a balanced-armature-driver earphone, the driver technology that still defines nearly every high-end IEM made today. Along the way, Westone built the original E1 and E5 monitors for Shure and co-developed the earliest Ultimate Ears products with Jerry Harvey, putting the company's engineering behind two of the most important names in the IEM world before it had fully built out its own consumer line.
Today's Westone Audio lineup carries that history forward across the MACH series, the ProX series, and the Elite Series, in-ear monitors used on stage by touring musicians and off stage by listeners who want reference-level clarity and real isolation. Every custom piece is still hand-cast and finished by artisans in Colorado from an actual impression of the wearer's ear, the same hands-on approach the company started with in 1959, just aimed at a different kind of listener.