The Thummin design is, decidedly, avant-garde—experimental, radical, or unorthodox—as it embraces elements of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s geodesic dome, a cutting-edge design for, perhaps, an Antarctic research facility, in miniature, or, as its name indicates, an ancient religious artifact imbued with magical powers. Needless to say, our curiosity was peaked with regard to just how this uniquely designed IEM might actually sound.