post your FR at the cochlea

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>>109351474
>*AI generated anime child edition
Slopers what u think?

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>>109351527
Not sloppy enough.

Reminder that steamdeck audio is dogshit.

>>109351607
never used a steamdeck, never will

>>109351527
>EP321
I'd love to try one of those

/iemg/ Dogma Check
Tired of the hivemind? Here’s your prescribed sanity dose:

>Crinacle is not your priest.
Rankings are a guide, not divine scripture. Your ears > his spreadsheet.

>Harman and JM-1 ≠ perfect.
It’s a preference curve, not a law of physics. Some genres need deviation.

>Chi-Fi isn’t magic.
Great value, yes. Immune to QC issues and hype cycles? Nope.

>Graphs are not sound.
They don’t show staging, dynamics, or fit. Use your ears, not just squigs.

>BA ≠ metallic, DD ≠ perfect.
Implementation matters more than driver type. Always has.

>Meme sets aren’t the whole hobby.
If it’s not shilled 24/7, it might still be good. It's highly encouraged to form an original opinion.

>Disagreeing ≠ cope or deaf.
Let people like what they like without foaming at the mouth.

>Loud posts =/= smart takes.
Confidence without experience is just noise. Show graphs, impressions, or both.


This has been your scheduled break from pos groupthink.

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why don't they put cool comics on iems? when i was a child i read spawn and witchblade and the darkness and stuff. do kids nowadays just watch japanese cartoons?

PEQdB is perfect. Trust in science.
https://purl.stanford.edu/bp189zs9642

Truthear Gate

>>109351740
that's not how science works

>>109351812
You didn't go to Stanford or any top15 university in the world, so your opinion is invalid.

>>109351907
Don't forget the best part-
They have 0 grasp on their own biology on top of it all.

>>109351907
you don't know that

>>109351907
>science
>opinion
see? you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about

>>109351979
Go read the paper. PEQdB Diamond β won.

Hex and Storm won. Precog won. Headphoneshow won, listener won. We are just too poor to admit it. Cope with 711 couplers from AliExpress, sine sweeps and EQ won't change brutal reality. Escape towards great sound is up there in high-end and we should work hard to get there.

>>109352175
Hex seems shit tho.
Rest valid

and the daily international grifter award goes to...

hpg is dead, imma ask here. should i get a meze strada for 650usd?

>>109352175
>Headphoneshow won, listener won
Okay... So Imma buy an hd480 pro and call it a day

>>109352053
one paper means nothing especially when methodology is so bad

>>109352297
no, it's already been mogged by hd480 pro. just watch the reviews

>>109352297
sure

>>109352310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

>>109352297
Buy Stax. Or optionally just get Empyreans at that point.

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Dude bro buddy chum fella...
There's only 3 headpos choices below $2000 that make any sense.
Max: 480 Pro
Mid: HD 650/6XX
Min: FT1
You pay more you're getting SCAMMED LMOA

>>109352297
What I've researched about them they are to bright and unless u are planning to EQ that it's better to go with hd480 pro. But they looks really nice and are comfortable.

>>109352391
not applicable
even if it was one study means fuck all retard

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>>109352622
>one study
omg you're so retard
it's not like other studies disagree <10khz, that's basically perfection and backed up by science.
stop doing sighted testing, and you'll realize PEQdB is the best

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>>109352757
>PEQdB is the best
Yeah best hearing loss accelerator

>>109352757
tell me
how was control managed in the study?

i've had it up to here with people not perceiving audio and reality correctly!!

>>109351474
anything cheaper with a good-enough DAC than the "$50" fiio snowsky echo mini?
at this point it's $100 and i just need a dedicated player to stop taking my phone on trails

>>109352757
>do his blind test
>get 5dB less treble than this
Fire the goy extinction cannon.

>>109352310
It means nothing to begin with, as it is not a peer reviewed publication and it was not published in any journal.

So far its value and trustability is the same as a random blogspot post.
P.S. When I did my masters the results got published as a separate publication (Just in case: a thesis is just a report that you did some project, even failures can make one and you can still graduate with it), in a peer-reviewed journal with me being cited as a first author and this paper is still up on ncbi.
As far as peqdb stuff is not published in a reputable journal like AES it simply doesnt exist as a piece of scientific material.

>>109352615
Only Para makes sense as the only headphone with as little distortion as in IEMs.

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>>109354612
Not the distortion retard again

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i like the look of this one

>>109354445
we're larping as authors in peer-reviewed papers now. what a new low, even for /iemg/

you know what's more cringie than CDickheads*? retardos who buy a bunch of 8gb micro sd cards then copy albums onto each and treat it as "physical media".

*performative dumbfucks who never had a cd collection in the first place and are just buying them now like cassettards and vinylosers.

>>109355154
says you.

well tuned iem beats a well tuned headphone any day for sound, not so much for comfort

>>109354661
>Not the distortion retard again
you are right, distortion doesn't matter, almost all pos have a THD too low to matter, thus FR is the undethroned king of sound quality.

>>109355189
>not so much for comfort
i'm kinda trying to find some good open ear or conduction ones.

>>109355189
stop trippin', bruh ! iems are low aura
hd480 wins in comfort, tuning, and sex appeal

>>109351474
is FT1 still relevant for $150 ish heaphone

>>109355189
for me its other way around, IEMs, even without vent holes are so much more comfortable. But well tuned headphone that work with my ear shape so there is no peaks and dips (still there just smaller) is so much more enjoyable to listen. Never had sense of space with IEMs as good as with openbacks.

>>109355908
if u need closed back yes. But what shills says its better to pay more for closed back HD 480 pro. FT1 looks bit like bootleg ZMF and Audiotechnica and it looks cheesy at that price

>>109356298
>HD 480 pro
thats almost 400 euro in my cunt
my budget is max 150 usd

>>109355355
Headpos has THD high enough to matter. Ft1 pro literally had to be revised because of clipping(it still does lol). Happens in expensive headphones too. Even before clipping it can get so bad that voices get warbled, like on beyers.

>>109356328
if u need closed back go for it then. For me at that pricepoint i would go for openbacks (maybe sundara or edition xs or something from sennheisrer) or go with IEMs. But i dont really like how FT1 looks

>>109355189
I can wear IEMs all day unlike headphones. But not all IEMs. You have to explore different shapes and tips.

>>109354721
that's how science work mr. retard.
scientific process is a very specific thing. a method.
sharur's article does not follow scientific method and thus is unscientific

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Reject TWS.

>>109357029
interesting

>>109357029
koss must be in top 10 performative things for chuds to do. I had that type of guy in college and trust me, he was one of the weirdest person i ever met (in that distrubing potential serial killer type of way)

>>109357029
These always seem to hang just far enough from my ear to sound like shit. Tinny and no bass. If I hold them slightly more against my ear like how a headphone band would, they sound great. But the ear clips don't seem capable of doing that, at least on my ears.

>>109356500
For me, Shure/Westone shaped IEMs with foam tips are the comfiest for wearing a long time. Preferably ones with 3 mm nozzles since that allows for more foam between the hard nozzle and my skin. The small size and light weight make them barely noticeable, just a slight sensation at the end of my ear canal, and the reduced volume level of everything around me. They also lay flat enough to lie down on my side with them in.

>>109356447
Stax be like *can't even finish the distortion test*

Wireless IEM when? LC3 codec makes cables kind of pointless.

>>109357255
epz already did them, epz s350t

>>109356447
I dunno if it's THD but a lot of people are reporting clipping or something like that for a lot of focal headphones

>>109357255
>LC3 codec
does windows suppot it?

>>109357673
Yes. I am using it right now with a mediatek 7925 network card

>>109357029
He switched to wired mid-game because the latency was too poor even with a 2.4GHz dongle. Reasonable crashout.

>>109357029
ksc-75 are great dunno about the other models

What are good buds for falling asleep with? I want something that can block out ambient noise (namely AC), stays in my ear, and feels comfortable so that I can actually sleep. Sound quality is secondary to all of those.

>>109359237
sony mdr-ex15

>>109351768
My beloved

>>109356447
dunno i can push my planar headphones to 120db before they audibly distort
though that's just measuring, i rarely listen above 50db.

>>109360393
Most headphones and even most planar headphones can't do this. Not in the frequency range where volume like this matters in the first place.

lil bro is so deaf xhe hears distortion even when xhe doesnt own any headpos

>>109360432
planars can be pushed that high if you got a dac+amp powerful enough.
though it was the theorical loudness, it was probably closer to 110db because i wasn't maxing out white noise and playing a sound that had dynamic range.

db meter would read in that ballpark as well, though i don't trust it so much because when enclosed a headphone will be louder than when the sound can escape.

>>109360594
Stop saying planars when it's only a couple of planars that can do this. You don't test this with white noise, nobody cares if you can obliterate your ears with 100dB of 1kHz, you test with subbass. Headphones have lower max SPL at subbass, musical spectrum has higher subbass(it's pink noise, not white noise), human hearing is like 40dB less sensitive to subbass and most planars need their subbass boosted with EQ just to sound neutral.

>>109360679
>subbass
dude, they were making a speaker like thud, i don't think there was any issue with the subbas, sure their response is naturaly flat ish, but if they can make a clean thud at > 100db i'm not too worried about being able to EQ good bass when i'm listening at 60db.

>>109360703
>they were making a speaker like thud
Speakers have 100% THD at subbass. That's why speakers setups without subwoofers are a joke.

>>109356850
woah calm down mr. antsy.
I was talking about the anon that said they got a master's and was cited blah blah blah. it's another larp. fuck off.

>>109360785
you can cope it won't change that he is right. sharur's nonsense is not publicized in a proper scientific journal. even more it will not be able to pass a peer review

>>109360851
nobody's coping but you- you're stuck on sharur when I wasn't talking about him this entire time.

at the very least, he's contributing more to the hobby than you are. so go ahead, bring up the word cope again as you repeat yourself about a dude I never brought up to begin with.

Should I replace my DT 770s with K371s?

>>109361196
lol no
k371 has awful fucking quality control. giant unit variation and huge positional variation. Also mind boggling channel imbalance. Think like 3-4dB

>>109361217
Are there any other good wired closed back headphones at that price point? I like my DT 770s but the plastic hinges are broken and I'd have to import the FiiO FT1 from the U.S. so it's not worth it.

>>109361280
Beyerdynamic DT270 is the best option

>>109360722
i was speaking of the thud of full spectrum speakers (ie come with sub) not those that stop at 65hz dude.

>>109359237
Ozlo sleep buds
Sound quality is O.K., they're fucking tiny, completely wireless, and last like, 8-9 hours of playback.

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After like 10yrs, my 7506 coiled cable turned to greasy, oily goop that came back a day after wiping down with alcohol, still would buy again, 10/10.
Wish they came stock with a detachable cable tho.

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>>109361987
I like how it turned out, almost like they always came like that.

>>109362002
Also forgot, avoid brainwavz sheepskin sony pads if you need replacement pads, they are literally only sheepskin on the side that touches your head, the rest is all PU leather and fabric that flakes away like stock pads.

we're /hpg/ now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MCq21suNbc
uh oh

>>109362498
everything is "the best"
so sick of this shit

>>109362522
>other people's opinions
>so sick of this shit
nobody's forcing you to care in the first place anon.

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>>109351740
Mogged by fox target.

>>109362498
the headphone has more testosterone than both reviewers

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>>109362498
>follows Harman/PEQdB
>people love it
Trust in science, folks.

>>109362769
fox target is just as farcical as PEQDB target

>>109363022
Harman has always been the answer. Don't try to sneak in that other shit like it ever mattered.

>>109363193
>Harman has always been the answer.
bait.
>Don't try to sneak in that other shit like it ever mattered.
JM-1 matters. If it didn't, foxbumretard wouldn't have bought an EPZ P50.
Nice try, though.

>>109354721
I've seen people getting publications as first authors resulting from their masters thesis/MD in Nature or Lancet SS++++ world class tier journals but you need to be very lucky for that

But if your masters didnt result in any publications in a scientific journal, then you just did the bare minimum and brought zero novelty with whatever you were doing

Just because you formatted your blog entry in a scientific journal page style does not mean that science was done in any meaningful way
If there really is some sort of a novelty or value then it shouldn't be an issue to publish it in a peer-reviewed journal
Iirc sharur was talking that Sean Olive will review his peqdb paper, but afaik nothing came out of it, because Dr. Olive is a real scientist and just ghosted this bullshit the moment he realized that he didn't even cite his work properly lmao

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>peqdb target in blue
>KZ PR2 in red
what I find interesting is his so called target calls for even more treble than what he described as hearing damage inducing from the PR2.

>>109363616
unironically his target is like that because most pos tuned to ie 2019

>>109363216
>Thing matters because this other retard bought a pos
>?????????
Absolute lowest of the low goycattle

>>109363776
>>Thing matters because this other retard
I was being coy and pointing out the hypocrisy that the furfag failed at noticing the upgrade from the P50 and the cheap EPZ they own.
I like the idea of JM-1 though.

Is the Edifier MR3 speakers worth buying @ $99.99?
These aren't headphones, but I'd appreciate constructive feedback from a few audio schizos here.
Thanks.

Hey guys i know this is not the general for this but: any good headphones like the audio technica m50x but better? I only have like 150 usd of budget btw.

>>109364159
beyerdynamic dt270 pro is the budget meta now

>>109354678
>>109362498
Waiting for my niggas Resolve and Fc construct to give their impressions, since I don't tend to align with Listener's prefs and I got a big head like Resolve

>>109364159
>any good headphones
Who's gonna tell him

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>>109364159
at that price i can recomend only iems. There is few good open backs like sundara, edition xs, jt1, senheisser 5series is also good but with closed backs, dont know, fiio ft1 was shilled hard, maybe something from beyerdynamic or senheisser at that price but most shilled stuff so hd 480 pro is around 300usd where i live
>>109364724
resolve tried it and they like it. But is price something like 3000+usd and require dedicated AMP like Raal imanis?


What have I done - Optimus Prime and me

>>109365012
it's 3.5k apparently and the amp is included. headphone guys "cant afford" and wont buy it though which i find odd for someone involved with this professionally who just came across the best headphone they've ever heard

maybe they're spending it on crack instead. they look a bit pale and underfed

>>109365173
i mean they have private owned susvaras, at least golden sound and resolve. 3k is big buck but for headhones and iems still long way to the top

>>109365012
As a ft1 owner, it's overrated relative to its glowing reviews. Now with sundaras and xs frequently near that price on sale, it's not as crazy as a value buy. It doesn't do anything badly, but it doesn't stand out in any areas either. It also has QC issues with the headband. Great gifts for casual listeners, looks and feels better than it sounds. The QC issue on my ft1 is preventing me from blind buying the jt7

>>109365173
they can literally just EQ any headphone to anything cause they have in ear measurements

>>109365326
i personally cant stand how it that thing look. Something that is working for highend with brands like ZMF or auditechnica in that price point looks like cheap copy with silly wood on top of it.
If u need closed back there isnt much choice unless u are willing to EQ competitors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwkGDywq58

>>109363216
>buying IEMs for a graph
Nobody is dumb enough to do this.

any good portable cd player? Or I i just get an old walkman/discman

>>109364159
dt 770 is more comfortable, has its own issues

hd 600/650/6xx are all open backs, mog both and can be found used for less than $150 and aliexpress pads/headband are sub 10 cad

if you dont want used specifically you can check out amazon warehouse deals for open box stuff instead, usually your best bet are just random shit from audio technica because they make a lot of headphones, beyerdynamic, sennheiser or one of the chifi ones if you want to gamble on garbage, just lie and say something isn't matching disc and then get 20% back, i've done that 10 times at least

not a lot of options at $150 but buying used you can sometimes luck out a lot harder than you think, i got some hd 600's for $100 cad and every part is replaceable so worst case pads+headband pad + headband assembly would of only been like $90 or something.

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wtf millenials and boomers goes nuts fot that plastic resin look? They pay premium for few extra grams of forever chemicals that look like something for gypsies instead of nice looking natural wood versions.
Audiophile version of diy resin tables from tiktok.

>>109366263
fiio made some good ones I think

>>109363821
just because it's more expensive doesn't mean it's an "upgrade". if you had iems you would know. raped kikeslave mentality.
>inb4 it's not better because it's more expensive, it's because redditors that think like that said so
so tiresome

>>109361196
Replace 770 with IEMs.

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>>109351474
>>USB-C DACs:
>• JCally JM6 (Non Pro) / CX Pro - $8
>• JadeAudio JIEZI (10-Band PEQ) - $18
>• TRN Black Pearl (10-Band PEQ) - $38
>• Qudelix 5K (20-Band PEQ/GEQ) - $110


which one is good enough for gaming? unironically cs2 and rust only

>>109367129
even apple dongle will be fine

>>109367129
U can buy something desktop with volume control (or dongle with volume control) but desu even apple dongle will be enough

>>109367239
>>109367376

i would go for TRN i guess
thx for reccoemnding me

Off topic but where can I get high quality music from?
I normally use Spotify as it just works plus I get lossless but I wanted to go offline. I used deemix/deezer to download but the songs aren't high quality.

>>109367129
>>109367499
It's not about how you use it, it's about what IEMs/headphones you got. But TRN should get you covered in most cases.

>>109367583
mchose V9 pro

>>109367582
U can rip it from tidal or qobuz on sites like lucida . to , search for your fav albums on tidal or qobuz sites, copy paste link on that site and it should rip for u files with highest quality, tags, album art and so on.
If u want legal u can buy digital files on sites like qobuz or bandcamp or just rip stuff from used CDs u bought

@devzo
>Easy Effects changelog
>Our local server has been improved and it is now possible to fully control equalizer parameters through external tools.
Can't you make the PEQ Studio UI work with easy effects now?

should I get Sony WF 1000XM6 ?

>>109368667
Too much money for something that'll eventually die. Just get the moondrop pudding.

>>109368725
I think u can pry it open and switch battery for aliexpress one. I knew few guys that were so lazy to untangle their cables before use that wireless stuff last for them much more than wired headpos/iems

>>109366165
it's a decent majority of the consumer base..what're you smoking?
>>109367018
I never said price=quality so you sperged out for no reason. besides, again, like I said, I was mocking another anon that made a purchase expecting an upgrade. go yell at them fuckin spastic.

>>109369935
your cope has been inb4'd.

>>109370051
I accept your concession

how is the sound difference going from moondrop chu 2 to dt770 pro? im thinking of buying dt770

>>109370116
stupid LLM
>>109370121
like going from full hd to hd

>>109370121
There's a reason why Chu 2 is undisputed king of budget iems even in 2026. Just make sure to EQ down the treble if you haven't already

>>109370121
dt 770 is very V shaped, as soon as you hear them you will just notice a lot of bass and treble but mid range is recessed quite a lot because of it
could be fine depending on what you listen to i suppose, not a lot of closed back headphones that are even worth talking about even if you spent over $500

>>109370266
>Chu 2 is undisputed king of budget iems even in 2026
>Just EQ it first
holy bait

>>109370351
not using eq in 2026 is bait

>>109367018
no one says this but people here will explicitly argue that more expensive means "downgrade"

>>109370407
EQ is cope. Being a troon in 2026 is bait.

fuck it, im getting that new boomdrop pos

>>109370471
Enjoy, anon. Don't let any fuckface retard anon tell you that you're having fun the wrong way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hb-37zLrU

>>109370436
by every objective metric it is

>>109370615
nta, but what's the most expensive IEM you own?

>>109370615
i know

>>109370615
>>109370700
caught the samefag talking to herself.
it's all so tiresome

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>>109370746
caught retarded LLM copypasting phrases from the thread

>>109370752
that's not how science works.

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>>109370691
EA500LM, the worst IEM I've ever heard

>>109370777
your negative subjective experience means shit.
>inb4 crinacle said it's mid
I accept your concession again.

>>109370789
see >>109370764

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>>109370789
oh, so now subjective experience doesn't matter. glad we agree expensive iems are objectively worse then.

>>109370810
You don't get it. When subjective experience says an IEM is good then it's good, when it says an IEM is bad then it doesn't matter.

>>109370810
>the tree of delusion

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>>109366760
wood headphones had so many issues that it made no sense to ever bother with them
lcd 2's would snap because the wood vibrated the screws
emu-teaks/foster part wood models would randomly pop off the cup if they were in too dry of an environment, other issues if they were humid
there was also a time trash from kickstarter looked like ur pic but with wood and were bought purely because of it, its just strange

i think the market for all of it is just people who have no actual reason to buy something but want too anyways and just end up buying shit for aesthetics

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>>109371277
Magnesium gang.

>>109371948
i was going to try and get some audeze's but i haven't seen a pair locally in 3 years, except for lcd 3's and the specific model was the death one unfortunately
kind of just gave up with planars in general, my aeons both have obvious channel imbalance and one of the cables kills itself sometimes for no reason

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>>109370499
that dumbfucktarded looking fr graph (yeah yeah, blow me) on that reddit post was what enticed me. hoping for it to make me cringe as hard as the flipears aegis.
dunno why i couldnt get the coupon code to work though ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄

>>109372422
Dude lmao I thought you were mocking Moondrop but nah it's actually real... It's actually called BOOMDROP lmfao

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>>109372572
shitpost side brand from moondrop

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>>109372613
>No-Res
You can't actually be serious

I just converted a type C earbud to 3.5mm jack.

>>109372422
>>109372613
>>109370471
>reddit living rent free here
grim

>>109372875
and you defending them.
grim.

>>109372707
do type-C earbuds use analog out pins or do they present as a sound card?

>>109372881
i love reddit, its like 4chan but with more unrestrained consumerism.
Cherry on top are post in style of "2 months in hobby, what u think" and pic of 20 pair of 5usd shitbuds.
Or with knife collecting subredits "2 months in hobby, what u think" and pic of 20 pair of random civivis and kaizers that were shilled on tiktok shorts

>>109371948
LCD5? Only headpos i ever wanted for them are LCD5, MM500 or that new one LCD5s.

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>>109372908
they are all funko pop collectors, they treat every single aspect of consumerism like it's them, it's all incredibly performative
you could put anything into '2months into hobby what do you think of x' and it would apply to basically everything over there, crts,iems,headphones,mice,keyboards, funko pops,stanleys,disney trash,marvel trash, pokemon cards, etc

It's why the second anything becomes known to them it's fucking over, even women do it now with tech like crt tv's so they are like $300+ for shitty 13' vcr's

>>109351474
someone could not pay me enough to put tinnitus creators from china into my ears

>>109361587
400 dollarydoos? high price to pay for japanese asmr while I sleep

at least crin's subreddit actually posts pos and not just accepting concessions about cochlea fr eq distortions

>>109373183
gets mogged by head-fi posters writing schizo poetry about dac chips sound differences
love those guys

>>109373223
Went into Mysticraft headfi thread because wanted to do research bout Mysticraft Myth (1000usd one) and that one sharur video about hex lives rent free in their minds.

On the other hand I found perfect pads for my headphones there so it could be valuable resource if u see through audiophile bullshit

>>109373265
There are some great threads on there, the topping eha5 one saved me a ton of money
but it is really fun to see some absolute schizo posts every once in a while
i got some ck2000tis for $290 cad and i couldnt even find anyone on there who owned them which is odd because they buy literally everything
maybe i didnt look deep enough

>>109371277
Stabilized wood impregnated with epoxy resin is (mostly) free of these issues. But then it gets heavy comparable to metals and the aesthethics are questionable. Considering that plastics since 80s can last forever even metal use is kindaquestionable.

>>109372903
99% of them present as a sound card.

My dongle identifies as a desktop amp

Nobody with working hearing ever needed an "amp".

>>109373834
said nobody ever

bloom audio > headphone show as far as yt channels

>>109374015
for me it's innerfidility
still havnt needed him to review anything in 8 years because most things are bad, mostly

>>109373953
somebody had to say it

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what is AI+ simulation for headphone design?

>>109373834
stunning and brave

>>109374092
It means the image was created with AI.

>>109374092
the chinese could get every single chatbot to agree on a headband design and they would still find a way to make it snap in half, have the hinges nuke themselves or just fall off completely
still wont stop people buying them en mass and then acting all surprised by it

>>109374120
>>109374118
According to AI generated marketing material they used DeepSeek to judge simulation results and propose changes kek.
That shite cost almost 1000usd for 70mm dynamic driver inside laser cut carbon fiber chassis + off brand AliExpress headband

>>109374015
headphone show has gigantic advantage over everybody else because they have in ear measurements together with grass and 5128 graphs

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>>109374202
how would you even sell something like this to redditors anyways? Unless somethings changed they are still dogmatic about everything being bad but planars, really doesn't seem to matter how many explode like collapsing suns either

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>>109374422
I don't mind good dynamic drivers, they as audio company are known for producing fakes of zmf and abyss headphones, they also had access to hifiman susvara golden drivers but AI generated headphones is just too much for me.

>>109374015
The only problem with headphone show is they're mostly reviewing shit nobody cares about. Channels that are "I listened to it and it sounds good" or "here's 1 graph" are extremely outdated.

>>109374898
They should do what Zeos does, review the same dog shit beyerdynamic, except go from 250>600 ohm and say because of that alone it sounds like the voice of god, then go and sell the headphone 3 mins after the review comes out
Some how you could do that with every single headphone and still people would watch, gotta be something to it

>>109374898
desu i really liked fat goldensound channel era, with dac, amps reviews with music examples and so on,most of that stuff was unobtanium anyway so it was window into more expensive stuff.

Problem with headphone show is simple - they went with scientific approach so apart from FR measurments there isnt much more content. So If we base everything on this, it turns out that many cheap things are currently very good or great, the rest we can improve using EQ and expensive sources, dacs, amps, headpos and iems are just snake oil
I think they as retailer have access to really cool and expensive gear, but as yt channel they just cant show it because they positioned themselves as those with a scientific approach and rejected snake oil stuff (and most of that shit is just snake oil)
I like bloom audio approach, they are just to shill some stuff as a retailer so they are shilling expensvie multi kilobuck DAPs, portable AMPs, sumit fi IEMs and so on. There is few channels like that.

Fuck measurement, embrace snake oil because after while everything will be bland and boring

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I think the harman target sounds good

>>109373032
>PX 200
>Not PX 100
For shame

>>109375043
>Problem with headphone show is simple - they went with scientific approach so apart from FR measurments there isnt much more content.
I mean you are not exactly wrong but they still give you their subjective perspective and then show measurements that corresponds to it. Which is kinda double approach (only resolved doesn't even try to talk about shit like soundstage etc anymore lol)
>headpos and iems are just snake oil
eh they often like more expensive stuff but the take always is that it's not worth in the end
>Fuck measurement, embrace snake oil because after while everything will be bland and boring
if you can spend thousands on snake oil might as well make a trip to a nearest research institute and get your HRTF scanned and then invest into in-ear mics to EQ anything you want to perfections from there on

>>109375374
>if you can spend thousands on snake oil might as well make a trip to a nearest research institute and get your HRTF scanned and then invest into in-ear mics to EQ anything you want to perfections from there on
why would I do this when I can buy Storm

>>109375539
storm sucks

I deposited 150USD for STORM waitlist

>>109375930
150USD is like a qudelix + shitbuds that can be EQd to anything. Lurk more.

>>109376027
stop coping, get a job and buy storm already

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is this cheap tube shite from aliexpress even safe for my iems and headpos?

>>109376042
BA pos, avoid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6m0cSxECTU

Shill me some interesting pos with estats under $600, main requirement - bass without a scoop and no estrogen fueled jm-1s. Can be used market.

>>109377115
moondrop variations

>>109377243
If 0-500/800Hz isn't a straight line or close to straight line I'm not buying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8-g-OeyE9M
Sunday evening music time

>>109377265
>Give me something non-estrogen fueled
>Wants estrogen-fueled tuning

>>109377345
I said straight, not parallel to X axis

>>109377265
Just EQ it. Driver quality will still shine through :)

>spend last year with V and U tunings, get warm neutral pos last week
>cool but tame and veiled, lets give it a week
>fast forward a week, AB with old pos: holy mother of thousand suns how bright and aggressive
Each end every time I'm convinced that in vacuum I could live with Vidos if I stop getting new stuff. I don't mean Vidos are better, I mean it's really easy to get used to the stuff you use.

This general is dead without me

>>109377424
All we need is fox + 2 schizos arguing about FR and techs to keep it alive. You're irrelevant.

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Balls deep into AliExpress, it's overwhelming how much of that shit they produce.

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>>109377431
>All we need is fox
True.

>>109377835
>Bro attending some fox convention
The heck is that

>>109377913
giant humiliation ritual. that person also eats at the slav knockoff version of KFC that uses old and rancid frying oil that interferes with their TRT. if you can imagine, the insanity.

>>109373001
It's LCD-GX. The cups on new audezes are too small and you can't bend the carbon fiber headband to reduce the clamp, old audezes with fazor have less space inside cups for the ears. This is the best audeze headphone for me, maybe the best headphone ever.

>>109371277
D7200 is better

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>>109378766
that could be true but i only have the pic of d5000

>>109377415
The shit noeqs deal with.

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>>109376061
using it produces mustard gas and gives you chicken pox

>>109351712
Kids are less edgy now, grandpa.

I think my Fosi DS2 might be dying, every now and then the audio on my pc stops playing for a second or two and then resumes like normal. What's a good DAC I can get that won't die after not even a year?

>>109380199
happens to mine too, probably power delivery because it doesnt happen when power saving is off and happens on a sudden heavy bass hit.

>>109380244
For me it's 100% random, and I have no power saving setting enabled

>>109380199
i just buy whatever shit i find on the used market
my modi multibit is retarded but it was free and i dont like it
my modi 3+ works well and i have no complaints what so ever, probably will keep it till it dies
most new things are just rehashed chinese garbage that break the second they clear warranty period

>>109380199
>>109380244
do you have the ESS or Cirrus version?? mine is ESS and I've never had this problem.

one of my starfields randomly stopped working (well not exactly, it's almost as if the volume's nearly all the way down) due to a sudden sweat issue (used them for 5 years just fine) so i replaced the filters (same two-part ones) in both but after a week it's doing it again, always the same one
what's up with it? only thing i did was swapping tips to dunu s&s (i can't find the old ones, rip)

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>>109351474
>watch new review
>it sounded more energetic

Getting used to Truthear Pure after the barrel on my Hexas cracked. From what I understand the Pure is the HD650's to the Hexa's HD600.

>>109380880
>Truthear Pure
garbage.

>>109380880
Me?
It's the hd 600

>>109380919
Same twin

>>109380884
ummm sister all pos are equal under eq

>>109380935
>headphone user
>EQ
Doubt

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>>109380884
>$8 shitbuds EQ'd to some meme target
pinnacle of audio.

my $5 aliexpress headband pad/earpads for my hd 600 turned out quite well
the headband was bent on one side but i managed to make it fit still
headband is pretty stiff and its the 4 pads instead of 2 like the 650 but still not bad overall
what a win, although i did have to use an entire bottle of alchohol to clean them because they were so fucking nasty

>>109381045
>although i did have to use an entire bottle of alchohol to clean them
for the actual headphone plastic not the pads, oops

>>109380641
There's a filter behind the driver as well which isn't user-replaceable, you can try drying them longer.

>>109380546
I stopped using anything cirrus when I learned apple is using them. If apple is doing something then it's probably wrong. I was justified with the distortion findings later.

>>109381117
Not the ds2 anon btw.

>>109381106
they take a few hours to dry out and I can only use them for maybe an hour at a time now, it sucks. I'll try to find my arias and steal the tips off of them (that's where i got the 2-piece filter from, the ones in the starfield box are the wrong kind)

>>109381117
>cirrus hump
>sabre glare
there's always something to bitch about, really. not that I need to upgrade my DAC, but I am curious how the Protocol Max will hold up in the long run.

>>109377339
Only real music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxsUYNg5NZU

Ignore my ignorance, but can anyone tell me if Fairbuds are good enough given I'm not an audiophile?

>>109381770
Their whole shtick is being repairable, as a brand! The products themselves are generally behind the competition for the same amount of money.

>>109381770
>99EUR
>sbc
just buy something for $20 for next 10 years and replace them under warranty if needed. from my experience battery is the last thing that acts up in tws. it's either mics or fall damage.

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• HiBy R1 - $85
• HiBy M300 - $200

if my budget $100 max
what to choose?
echo mini good?

the punchy bass of my planars is unmatched

>>109382476
>what to choose?
plap

Why is usb-c audio still a buggy fucking humiliation ritual in 2026

>>109383089
skill issue

Bought 711 coupler clone from chyna

>>109383089
Are you perhaps an itoddler?

>>109383796
one step closer to EQing $5 shitbud to perfection

So I've tried Misty Blue as possible vocal centric replacement to CKLVX. I don't get the hype. They do nice, clean vocals but hit my earcanal with sibilance (in a very similar way to XM5) Rest is too tame for my liking (lacks impact and too pushed to the background, like you put 20% higher resolution on vocals than everything else). I'd rather keep my D62 - more sharp and unpolished but fun.

no need to eq $2 shitbuds your brain eventually auto eqs and it sounds good

>>109384211
>I don't get the hype.
there's no hype
>clean vocals
come from raised 1-2k region
but there's no mids. eargain is all fucked and treble is peaky and unremarkable
EQ required

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>>109365668
>get pranked by trolls shitting up his poll results with boosted treble
>make a target out of it
>99% of music sounds like shit
>conclude that most music is bad
>switch exclusively to music that hides tuning flaws(multichannel, high dynamic range)
>needs exponentially more power from the amp
>crank up the volume
>get tinnitus from it
>get actual hearing damage from unequalized treble peaks
>stop listening to music
He unintentionally went through the exact same steps headphone boomers went through lmao.

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picked up a pair of apple wired earpods out of curiosity, really not sure why measurement graphs show them as the blue here. the bass is extremely overpowering, it sounds more like red to me

>>109384812
whole tuning influences how you hear things

>>109383796
Those couplers, even the clones really change the game for iems and headphones. I bought the Minidsp Ears Pro to EQ my Crosszone Cz-10s and it helped me enjoy them so much more. Just remember for iems to insert them where the peak is centered at 8khz and note that beyond that range the measurement will be far less accurate.

>>109384896
>accurate
>711
christmas came early this year huh? post some measurements for us lol

>>109384896
A crazy investment for some literally who phones but I respect the grind.
>>109384936
It can't measure balls, sorry.

>>109384861
the chart has jm-1 correction. all the relative differences to that check out to me in comparison to my cringe-ear references, except for the bass. after eq'ing these sound pretty good

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The little plastic hook on the cable of my nova hardened and it pokes my ear. I want another cable. What is a good cable for this pos?

>>109385070
buy a gate for the cable and then realize gate is just as good when you eq it

>>109384896
>>109384340
i just wanted to play with DIYing IEMs. But overall due to UE import tax prices for parts went into space so i dont know, i guess it will be good for EQing

>>109384812
Nonono, you don't understand how things work here. You are supposed to EQ to some graphs of unknown origin, not listen to the things you buy. Which you shouldn't even buy in the first place.

>>109385147
>eqing by graph
reddit is two blocks down bucko

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>>109352615
dt 770 is the best mid

>>109385276
You must know that neighborhood quite well, ask about sarcasm when you visit next time.

>>109362002
nice i always do female jack mods one my cable inevitably breaks

>>109385027
unironically might be unit variation too

>>109385003
It's a boutique Japanese brand; Their whole niche is that they implement an analog crossfeed system in their headphones. Works well but the stock frequency response is actually disgusting. I can post measurements after work.

>>109385103
unironically this
gate's cable is goated

>I don't like Harman as a tuning, I just worship it as a science.

>>109385494
could be, in a way im not entirely surprised tho, the airpods 2 have a similar, too boomy bass with lacking subbass. i was thinking maybe there has been a hardware revision

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who's buying karma?

>>109385705
who the fuck is Quill?

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i can add soundstage

>>109385744
american boutique brand that works with musicteck

>>109385103
I already have a (dead) gate. I guess I can repurpose its cable.

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retarded question: has anyone here configured the eq of the trn black pearl or am I just supposed to use the default eq in addition to the eq software on my android? I browsed the eq guide but I couldn't find anything related to using a DAC

>>109386748
it has walkplay compatibility with the app as well as browser.
https://epzaudio.com/pages/driver-downloads?srsltid=AfmBOooh3lOo5srgy2uu0GR85pEa-6sX5v0RuzMZlnjjZhmrmnNjWOCB

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congratulations on buying the IEM good job buddy

>>109352829
chocolate flavor?

>>109387157
>$2600
I wonder if it'll shit the bed within a year while sounding like ass in the meantime

>>109387274
this quill karma is 900. i might buy it and expect to be congratulated if i do

What do people mean when they say dark bright? I never get that. For me, it's either dark or bright.

>>109380199
https://youtu.be/6qM4TGxcLk8
this or the JCally JM20 Max

>>109387622
I got you bro
https://youtu.be/VEZvZNR6Ezg?t=231