Hey guys! David from Frogbeats here...

Thought I'd chum by (I've lurked these forums now for a while, less and less time to be an active poster) and answer some of your queries.

Few things I'd like to clarify firstly, with regards to prices:
I realise the prices are higher than what you would get in the US, however we were basing our prices on the UK/EU market, where CIEMs in general are much more expensive (just look at the UM prices in the UK, or ACS for a 3 driver CIEM -- retailing at £699 for a 3 driver). It's very hard to match pricing from the US (even with normal retail products like we have stocked for a year) so we try to do our best to keep it on an even playing ground. What I mean by this is that for the price hike we'll try and get the best quality out of the products, and importantly, the service provided.

Anyway, enough blabber, I just wanted to "try" and justify the prices. It has been a huge uphill battle releasing these, but we are confident they are going to shine.

The C5 does have more bass than the C4, however I wouldn't move it out of the general "neutral" area. It is still a neutral CIEM (I have it), just that it has that bit more oompf. We thought we'd vary our product selection with the mid product being the completely neutral one so that artists that maybe can't afford the high end can get the best one for monitoring.

The point of the Frogbeats Customs is not going for the maximum number of drivers, but rather the best options for the drivers we offer. The C5 has the same configuration as the ES5.

The reason LFF didn't receive the C5 is because I have followed his reviews since he started writing them on HeadFi and have noticed a general trend in liking complete neutrality and so I thought it would be more appropriate to send him the C4s rather than the C5s... I think I might have made the right decision! The other reason is that we want 3 completely different views on the Customs from 3 different sources, so the opinions are honest, unbiased (we hope) and gather different followings. The C3 has been sent to Mark2410 whom we've had a long relationship with in reviewing our normal retail products, and the C5 is being sent to AverageJoe. The costs it has incurred on us to get the samples means that we simply can't afford giving the 3 models to each reviewer. Not now anyway. Main reason why we are literally completely out of stock on the website of anything else Makes me sad.

As for a universal demo .... This is something that has come up extensively now and I'm working on seeing what can be done about it. Right this moment it's not a possibility (because we've barely got the Customs out of the door), but I'd say near future anything can happen (as well as universal IEMs...). I'm willing to dig deep and try anything new with Frogbeats, so happy to hear suggestions about anything really.

Group buys.... http://customs.frogbeats.com/group-buys

That's a general idea of what the group buys can get you. However we're more than happy to hear out requests about discounts and better group buys (if necessary, however I think they are quite reasonable in comparison with other companies).

Individual discounts will be available on official launch and if any of you guys want to know about them (I never like advertising or posting on forums about discounts) then email me or PM me about them. The official launch should be no later than this Friday with a newsletter. Frogbeats' goals are to try and make the CIEMs available to as many people as possible.