It's the thought that counts.

On the plus side, now you can game like professional esports players and use IEMs underneath

Nice!

I already decided I'm going to sell my Ananda, DT990, K702, NTH-100, and 99 Classics. I just want to get a new pinna first (the seller that makes the clone gras rigs is coming out with an updated pinna based on the KB5000) and update my squiglink with them first, then I'll sell those and put it towards something

Mine have been fine

To me they are. Some find they're a little too small

Yeah

It's the case the moondrop blessing 2 and some of their other IEMs comes with. It's thick though so it doesn't fit in your pocket

I have a little smaller ears so they fit me well

Love them. I have the dusk so it has a bit more of a Harman-ish signature than the normal B2. For an IEM they do sound more full than other IEMs I've used, but I haven't used any IEMs that are much more expensive than the B2. They sound similar to the K371 with a little more treble extention in terms of tonality, but sound more "detailed" in my opinion

Heading out early tomorrow morning to meet up with family and friends 6 hours away. Considered bringing my open backs, but even if I'll have my own room, I'll still be considerate and bring closed backs and IEMs instead. Feel like I should invest in a hard case for my K371.

Hope everyone has a good end of the year.

Sorry for just dropping the video earlier and dipping, I was at work but really wanted to chip in on this topic.

Ok so first, it's good to have an idea how we hear and what the driver is doing in regard to pressure waves when generating sound. https://imgur.com/a/AYU9ciU So in this image it depicts individual frequency waves and then they are combined in an analog signal for the driver to create them, they are all added (and subtracted) together into a single waveform that the driver follows. That creates the pressure waves that our ears pick up and extract information from. Now when applying that to frequency response, the varying SPL of differing frequencies has a direct affect on the shape of the waveform due to differing amplitude in various frequencies.

With that in mind it's also good to know about things like auditory masking. When multiple close together frequencies are played, if one is substantially louder than other similar frequencies being played, our brain filters the quieter ones out. The range of frequencies masked is dependent on how loud the peak is. So with headphones that have substantial variation in it's FR, it may sound either more "detailed" or less "detailed" than another based on it's FR. Personally I believe this is also one of the factors that causes the perception of "fast or slow" headphones, despite their drivers not actually responding in a "fast or slow manner" (in the sense its often described).

That said, it's not discounting headphones, different drivers, and the research or quality put into them. Different headphones and drivers may have their own unique frequency response due to various factors, and EQing is more like bending that overall tonality, but specifical characteristics of the FR that may make them sound unique will still be present.

So no you can't just look at a graph and know exactly how it will sound, or use a FR graph to EQ it perfectly to you because of differences in transfer function and acoustic impedance. Even if they measure the same on a graph, it may differ at your eardrum.

To summarize, FR at your eardrum in theory contains all the information you need, but actually extracting that information from FR is not reliable and FR made on standardized rigs is better used as a tool, but still trust your ears first

This is a nice summary of the stages people go through when diving into measurments and why frequency response ends up being the main thing used

https://youtu.be/LrIoNMeo_GI

Their biggest issue is in the upper mids around 5khz but that can be fixed with EQ. Tbh, the superlux/Samson stuff, while having some issues with their tuning, can be fixed with EQ and be a reliable headphone for the price

I find the 850 very fatiguing and hard to listen to above low volume. Porta pros are a little more bloated, but aren't fatiguing to listen to for me.

Its more in relation to how they compare to other headphones of the same price like koss or CAL which are around the same price

You can use any material you want, and there are companies that make pads for the HD600 from other materials, but only the original sennheiser pads are the ones that sound consistently like an HD600. Other pads either add some more bass, or change other parts of the sound signature

Congrats. If you enjoy them, that's all that matters

Congrats

It just sets the limit of how far the driver can fold out. So setting it on the firm mode limits how far it opens so it can clamp a little more.

It's pronounced like shit.

On the company website, this is what they have to say.

Is that really your name?
In case you didn’t get it from typing in the URL, reading the home page, reading the About Us section, and, like, every page of this site, YES, that is our name. And yes, it’s pronounced exactly how you think.

Are you guys for real?
Absolutely. Yeah, our name is an attention-getter, but you’ll quickly find that we’re dead-serious about audio.

While it's true that is where the resonance peak is due to most couplers and insertion depth when measuring, there very much could be a more solid peak there as well. So if you hear it and it's a problem area, definitely feel free to EQ that down

It's really just a meme ranking. For example mid-fi or summit-fi isn't a thing. It's just brackets people set by price.

You don't need it

Whe you use headphones with a particular sound signature, your brain automatically adjusts to it, and a deviation from that will sound exaggerated. The XM4 is a really bassy headphone, it actually has more bass than even modern beats headphones.

If that's what you're used to, your brain will equalize to that so that sound signature sounds like a neutral to you.

The 560s has linear bass. Switching to that from an XM4 will make it sound like all the low end is missing, and it usually takes a few days of constant listening for your brain to readjust, then the bass will sound more full again and overall the sound signature will be fuller and you'll likely notice more details in music youre used to. After that happens, going back to the XM4 from the 560s will probably sound like the XM4 is really bloated and congested sounding, with much of the details in the mids masked

Just use whatever you enjoy most