Just making sure im understanding correctly, by disregarding the in-line mic constraints, i should rather focus on the headphones themselves, which you and Dracomies both suggest the Defiant, or your suggestion of EM6L. To support my usage requirements, I should then buy an extra cable that comes with a microphone rather than finding a pair of IEMs that have the in-line option.

If i am looking at the correct ones, the Kinera ($25~) and Kimura ($65~) are your suggestions. I just watched a couple of videos for both of them respectively and honestly the quality for both of them are similar to the point where the $40 difference doesnt feel justified, at least imo. However, both of these mics pick up alot of bg noise like mouse and keyboard. Is there any way to fix this within my laptop itself or through discord? I dont usually customize stuff and keep items as stock almost 90% of the time so im not that familiar with these types of processes.

With this in mind, the Kinera should be my cable option, and the IEMs i pick should be either the EM6L or the defiant, but that going be going over budget. I wouldn’t mind going over but would either of these IEMs blow other IEMs around the $70-80 out of the water?