The koss looks awful

Tbf, You have to be some kind of special if you can't hear the difference between them.

You are certainly paying extra for their brand recognition, build quality, and house sound. I find them too warm for my liking though and went with Tr-amp instead. Serbian company, great build quality, and sound as good as Mojo, although not as unique looking and sounding.

Noway Hifiman egg-shape planar is worse than any DD hps!

Iem guy ☕️

bass good :)

Not all Headphones respond well to EQ. I'm not touching them with a 10 foot pole that's for sure (except for Audeze)

The HD559 has a unique pad. I think it's call surround reflectors.

Which gives the 559 the unique sound, sluggish sub-bass and shouty mids. It also wraps the outer soundstage around your ears, the "surround" effect.

I own 3 HD558 because of this sound.

Is this the iem/headphone with the best vocals out if your collection? I have the er2se and the 560s but I still want more resolution. I got the 7hz Timeless but felt that the instrumentals were placed in front of the vocalist which made the mids sound overshadowed and muted. Would you consider the ie200 to have the best midrange. Also how does the technical performance compare to the ie300 and z12?

Use all those things with the Qudelix 5K. Problem solved.

Yeah, the sound is pretty ok for the price. But the pads are still weird, even if they’d be on-ear. The HD 25 has proper on-ear pads, but the 4.40/4.50 ones are much more uncomfortable to me. But comfort is very subjective I guess.

First I’m hearing of these. How is the bass ?

Blown away! I meant blown away!

Nice kitchen counter you have there!

I’m elated for you, what a great feeling to be blown off! (Is that the right term?)

The essence of the hp, goes away with EQ

I initially purchased and fell in love with the HD600 based off browsing here in this sub. The first amp recommended for me to pair with it was the Magni Piety, but I had already missed the launch, and eBay sellers are greedy as all get out. So I purchased a Magni+ and had been happy using that with my HD600. Now as of today I received my first stand-alone dac in the MMB2, and I also had delivered today a Magni Piety I purchased at an incredibly fair price from an incredibly kind fellow headphone hobbyist. This is my Happy-And-Content game. Someday I want a Vali 2++ to try a couple of tubes out, but I don’t want to go past that. This hobby easily turns into chasing down the next thing…I’m content and thankful.

The HD559 has a unique pad. I think it's call surround reflectors.

Which gives the 559 the unique sound, sluggish sub-bass and shouty mids. It also wraps the outer soundstage around your ears, the "surround" effect.

I own 3 HD558 because of this sound.

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Nope. Not that simple.

There's acoustic dampening and other trickery in the cups that differ in open-back and closed-back models. Even if you somehow added closed-back cups to the LCD-2C, they would sound like shit because they're tuned to be an open-back.

I read all your replies, thanks for the suggestions! I’ll check them out

Wooden cups

if you use smaller bore eartips it will help with the treble

I like my headphones for their own unique flavor, I didn't buy them to make them sound like something else.

EQ if you like, don't EQ if you like. There are no rules. Do what you enjoy.

Expensive, for sure!

Crin's graph tool, squig.link and others support a few targets by default (right below the chart) like Harman targets, IEF Neutral, Diffuse Field, etc. Select your headphones, your target of choice, press the AutoEQ button, and the tool will generate EQ parameters. Afterwards you can even tweak the generated EQ params and see the resulting frequency response curve (typical use-case is if you want more bass for example). This works really well. But if you want to use your own custom target, it looks like you need to use the actual AutoEq tool written in Python... I've never done this though. Actually the graph tools have an "Upload Target" button in the "Equalizer" tab which looks like it can be used for custom targets.

Edit: apparently you can also select another headphones' frequency response as a target. Nice!