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Have Focal elex. I mean I don’t really need anything more than that 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yes

Yes. AKG K612 with slightly modified oratory1990 EQ + Oppo Enco X2. It's not like I'm closed to something new, it's like I'm afraid that the chance of getting a lower quality sound is a lot higher than the opposite situation.

It's more a tinge of warmth. It's basically a slightly warm Harman curve headphone, not a bass cannon at all.

Well HD600 are studio headphones and are made for studios in mind so its not a suprise, EQ can fix that up tho, just play around with it till you find a sweet spot

I bought the used pair of K712 I'm using around three years ago, haven't looked back nor forward. The Moondrop B2 is about a year and a half old as well, no desire to change. I bought a pair of ADAM T8V last year and have been playing around with room acoustics for a while. I've always found the notion of spending thousands of dollars on headphones silly but even more now when I consider how great of a sound you can get with headphones with so little nowdays, even compared to powered monitors today.

I've also had the Topping E30 and L30 since 2021, absolutely no need to switch. Running the speakers from the MOTU M2, it started having audio dropouts a few months back after a windows update so that's slightly infuriating but in terms of audio performance I don't see myself changing anything in the signal chain.

I rather spend money on headphones than on whiskey.

It's because people lack experience or simply too foolhardy to admit that cable can change sound. Like they said, "ignorance is bliss."

It works for the orks.

Same boat but HD8XX instead!

It's not just headphones, it's almost every hobby. It's upgraditits, and hardware accumulation and I think a big part of it is the excitement of opening the box when the thing comes in.

I was in the trade in/trade out world for a while, and it's really not so bad. You buy them used, try them out, and sell them for pretty much what you paid for since there's no real depreciation once they're already used as long as you keep them in good condition.

Part of it is a lot of fun. You get to try all these new headphones and only really pay the shipping cost. But at the same time, it's a bit silly. Yeah, it's a hobby, but it's not one that many people understand and especially my girlfriend at the time and now wife would certainly look at me and say "another headphone??" and then I'd have to explain that I'm not alone, there are dozens of people like me online trading headphones back and forth and it's just so I can listen to new stuff. It's not costing me that much money to do this and it's just a hobby.

So I settled on the K7XX a back when they came out and I've been using them ever since. I've really enjoyed them.

Dang I feel this way with my HD6xx and HD58x. I feel like this combo + tewbz covers a lot of ground

But they get tangled in the wheels of my desk chair 😡

I've been actively selling things off. For the first time ever, I'm completely content with my Edition XS and cheap buds for the gym. Headphones have changed dramatically in the past decade (maybe controversial) but the modern $1k goes SO far now.

Honestly, I found exactly what I was looking for, a stylish, white ish color, comfortable, amazing sound quality pair of headphones (focal clears) and a wonderful dac and amp combo that was equally as good looking (topping a50s/d50s) but.. at some point, I just didn't want it anymore. It had so many cables and just looked so cluttered with so much other stuff around it. I eventually sold it, and got a cute wireless gaming headset instead lol

Long cables are snake oil. I recline just fine with a 6 inch cable.

Bass comes with distortion so you can't elevate bass and expect no penalty for it. In this case EQ is a trade. You weigh the pros and cons. Sometimes getting more of muddy bass is not your preference. Leakage from long hair and glasses can worsen it. People tend to say that distortion doesn't matter in headphones, but they really mean that within reason. Distortion at bass can be very high and if you add to that leakage it means that your driver has to wobble outside of it's linear region. Such was the case of Sennheiser PX100, which had speaker level of distortion in the bass and consequently lacked the clarity of it's direct competitor, Koss Porta Pro. It's worth noting that the Koss generally sucks in it's upper range, which is why I personally never respected that headphone either.

Midrange and highs can have problems related to phase and personalisation. They often have very sharp peaks that drift in frequency from person to person. Good luck with notching them accurately! That's because the frequency of modes in the cavity between your eardrum and the driver varies with volume. If you have wider head, the driver will be pushed closer to your eardrum. If you have bigger ears, they'll displace more volume. Your ear canal entry can vary too.If you study B&K 5128 patent, you'll see that there is no one ear impedance. There is a range of ear impedances. That's OK for broad humps. Not OK for undamped resonances.

Back to the peaks and nulls in the highs. It's not easy to fix them and sometimes impossible when the mode is out of phase and cancels the otput from the driver. In such case the sound literally cancels itself and no matter how much you crank the volume up, it still is near zero dB. The only remedy is to physically address that mode in the earcup or the driver. A null like that will result in decreased detail and is an example of non-minimum phase behavior in headphones that is usually not talked by reviewers such as Crinacle, because it makes the topic too convoluted for non-engineers.

Sample variation can be an issue. You need the manufacturer to have at least some decency and do consistent QC and driver matching. On top of that the driver has to have the potential to compress air at low frequencies and have optimised modal behavior on both sides of the earcup.

That being said there are some cheap headphones that do most of that well. Long forgotten Philips models that are still in circulation on used market can be EQed to some success, but you need to make your own curve and I think this is the most important part - nobody cares about cheap headphones enough to work on EQ for them. They suck in more ways than just sound. Build quality and comfort for example. Some of them do one thing well. Aiwa Shellz comes to mind :) Can you make the upper range beautiful on those cute little buggers? Absoulutely. Can you make it play bass? Absolutely not.All in all when you EQ a headphone, it's better to be on the safe side and only add low Q filters. You'll avoid making things worse.

I have to kick myself on an almost daily basis from buying an "upgrade". I have the HE-4XX fast I use as my daily driver on my pc, and they are fantastic. That being said, I'm feeling a weird itch for something more. My wallet really cannot afford that lol.

ThanksFor some reason I've thought for a long time that I prefer warm signatures, but only more recently I think I've come to realise that I do just prefer something following the Harman Target which I suppose has a 'tinge' of warmth and I feel that's probably best for me. I've found that very warm and bassy headphones are very fatiguing in their own way, as the bass becomes quite sickly and I just can't bear to listen anymore. Would you say the R70x's warmth is more like a tinge of warmth or a is it a decently warm headphone? As you said though it is easily EQ'able and I could probably give it some slight tweaks if it was too much

This is natural considering the physics. The lower the impedence, the larger effect the impedence of the cables have on the signal transferred to the headphones.

Yeah FiiO are good stuff

Its dark as a tunnel with no light inside a black hole.

Oh yes, and even this avalanche may be small compared to mentioning that one "three letter" format, lol.