List of Clear Red and Blue Earbuds

As I was minding my own business, listening to music from my nifty Bluetooth speaker, I caught a glimpse of my VE Monk+ PH earbuds and thought, "That's nice."

While using the Monk+ PH in the dark, I never had troubles differentiating right from left, because there's a little light shining through those earbud shells that makes it easy to differentiate red from blue, unless I'm blind, but I'm not. Using different color foams helps in differentiating, too. But it usually involves some squinting because they all look black in the dark.

It was during that moment of clarity that I found myself asking, "Why aren't there more red & blue earbuds to lessen the internal conflict of which side goes to where?" Aside from looking gaudy, red and blue colorways would become stale so fast. Especially when it's not even our fave color! Thankfully, some Chinese audio companies (and Indonesian modders?) managed to make the combination of red and blue earbuds pleasant to look at. Granted, they used the same clear MX500 shells so THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE. But it's quite common in the audio world to have similar-looking products, can't blame them though, there's only so much shape you can fit in your ear.

Before anything else, what's the significance of red and blue in audio?

Well, it's a universal rule in the audio world that red is right, blue is left. Red goes to your right ear whilst blue to your left. Digging deeper into this topic is another story.