Planar Soundstage tho

Psh what a novice, not even resoldering the wires to the drivers themselves

No.

Thank you for the offer, however unfortunately I'm in the process of dramatic customization for my daily drivers and will get back to you after the project is complete.

It's just infuriating that this is even necessary, though. I mean yes, everyone should know their way around EQ. Cool, I get that. But the thing is the goal shouldn't be so homogenous. It's been getting worse and worse as the years have gone by and it's like, dude, for higher end products can we please just leave that kind of tuning up to the listener? If you're buying an amp and balanced cables you probably know your way around an EQ.

Yes this is why I flared it with drama.

Technically EQ is a solution. Fine. But then why even bother? It's all the same tuning.

It would be like having every car drive about the same. What would be the point of that?

Compensated, comes in flat to the majority of ears.

The problem is one of imaging. IEMs can be perfectly flat but sacrifice Soundstage. You can get your floorstanding speakers fairly flat either out of the box or via EQ or both.

But headphones? Everyone is targeting this same curve because they want that mass market appeal, despite the fact that the mass market doesn't care as much about critical listening as it does about comfort. It's frustrating. I'm big mad about it.

Flat.

The problem is its dominating the market and everything is getting tuned around it. New product? Harman curve. Boo!

Not quite. I'd like compensation as long as it makes it as close to flat as possible in the ear, not "pleasing".

Ok what is it

Flat. I want it flat. +/-3db. Flat.

Headphone. The whole notion of pouring audio science into a non-representative sample of people for what is most subjectively "pleasing" is something I could rant about for way too long.

The whole thing.

But especially the treble roll-off.

I replaced mine first with an generic earmuff head band, and then later with a military surplus David Clark ear protector headband.

I'm straight up going to pay a machining company to clone the cups out of aluminum.

Would I be able to alter sensitivity in this way?

Planars are somewhat foreign magic to me, I understand that for the same cone on a dynamic driver you could increase windings on the motor or use a bigger magnet to get different amounts of power out of the same cone provided that the cone maintains its stiffness and other materials could handle changes to excursion, but just increasing magnet strength on a planar? Like whaaaa?

What I'm thinking is R&D 3D print some templates to allow sliding the strips into place over the existing magnets. The "have fun and find out what happens" has to be worthwhile though and would need some kind of tangible, non-catastrophic result.

I do this kind of thing a lot. I converted a 1995 Honda CR-V to E-85 just because I could, once, and I learned a ton while doing so. I then also experimented with custom fuel blends. Even mediocre results are worthwhile, educationally.

These are for sure uncoated ferrite magnets. Weird design for the modern era. The thought is not to remove them, but to carefully apply neodynium strips to the magnets in order to increase their power.

The question here is what would that do, acoustically? Just boosting the magnetism that way?

The magnets are fully accessible by removing the ear cups or removing the grill.

I don't know! That's why I'm asking! I have things like wooden and plastic tools, so I'm fairly confident with care and a pair of Helping Hands I could reverse the modification as long as it doesn't damage anything.