Nothing in the headphones

But try to keep your sessions at normal levels or your ears may develop Tinnitus. Quiet environments, good isolation, or noise cancelling are better ways to improve your listening experience than turning the volume up.

Also remember, good equalization is about turning the annoying frequencies down, not pumping the good ones up.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Honestly, I don't look at his rankings at point. I just go and find groups/ forums with similar tastes and go from there. No need to pay/ subscribe for him to give me recs. That said, still respect his overall work.

Not only do you have a new mobo and a cheap dac/amp so there shouldn’t be a difference, but you’re also using a gaming headset which in my personal experience doesn’t scale with anything. I’m more blown away by your experience than you are lol, but if it makes sense to you then that’s all that matters.

It's not. I wasn't a huge fan of the tuning, but my main issue is that it has an audible noise floor.

Basically you plug it in and it starts going shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Great bargain, but not a replacement for anything high end

So if i set bass boost to sound like I have a massive subwoofer when playing EDM or something like that, it won't damage anything at normal to loud listening levels?

Any technical improvements between something like the BTR3 and a "better" one like the Qudelix disappear thanks to Bluetooth compression anyway. They are very, very minor at the best of times even when wired.

As far as IEMs go, something like the Moondrop Blessing 2 will blow your SE535 out of the water and provide a significant upgrade.

"V shape" is a general term for a sound signature that has more emphasis on the bass and the treble, while the mids are not as prominent. my morning brain was thinking that's what you meant 😅

you can change them. On the Dekoni website, they sell earpads for the XM5s. If they are too expensive for you, Google is your friend.

Take a look at a massively expensive Stereophile-recommend amplifier, or pre-amp/power amp combo. It will have a headphone jack & zero EQ knobs, with an option for Dirac room correction, because sound does bounce off walls. So, you can spend a car’s worth amount of money on a dream audio system and have nothing in that system for EQing your headphones. EQ is viable when the source is a PC, Mac or Android phone, or an iOS device playing downloaded files … and that’s it. That should tell u everything u need to know about EQ: don’t bother.

The 770 have great mids the treble is just a bit too forward

Downvoted for speaking facts

Agreed. If you enumerate the usb interfaces it exposes, often there's a serial endpoint for debugging and firmware update. Might be able to get the firmware that way, but after that you just have a binary blob.

Didn't know about pinebuds. Sounds neat.

Atom stack... nice!

"Designed to perform closely to Harman"?

Like the DT 990 pro and the 1770 pro and the HEDDphone or the Neumann NDH20/30? Because they are so close to Harman, right???

Pro headphones have nothing to do with Harman compliance. They all follow a different "target", which depends on the whim of the engineers.

I think you've missed something in your analysis: Headphones, which actually adhere to the Harman target are few and far between.

It sounds to me as though you give to much credit to "pro" audio manufacturers.

Thanks for your comment. Yes, I know Lotoo's higher-end DAPs test well. What other options are good candidates?

This particular model is known to go on sale constantly, Im pretty sure the ~300 msrp is just to make it look like a better deal when its on sale. I bought mine for $93.

No 😆

tbh, i just wanted to share this cute photo of doge

Comparison is the thief of joy. Words to live by.

As long as you buy from reputable and transparent companies you’ll get products that are designed to perform very closely to the Harman curve and minimal distortion/modulation whether that’s the “ideal” curve is debatable ofcourse.

People often argue with “oh but you can EQ other non-professional brands to the harman curve at well”, but you’ll need to take in account the sudden cup resonances and driver limits and air pressure (think lower frequencies) issues you’ll be inevitably running into.

In the end graphs aren’t everything as seal, materials, drivers, angles, damping, pressures, air dissipation, resonances etc. all play a part in it, don’t even get me started on how complex good speakers can be.

No.

You can damage drivers with an excessive and unhealthy volume (amplification), but the unbalance in certain frequencies is irrelevant, and your ears would break first in this case scenario.

Sure

Can I send you DM?

They are, very good for my tastes