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post #46 of 53
10/22/10 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by budgetboy View Post

 I want to experiment with headroom graphs and see if I can balance out treble spikes, sounds like fun to me!

 

 


Dont use the headroom graph. Use a sine sweep from 20-20khz and your own ears. A dummy head does not have the same ears or brain as you. Neither does your friend, so dont expect your eq to sound good for everyone. Everyone has peaks and dips at slightly different freqs from person to person. Treble is a biggest problem area for headphones. Treble peaks are unavoidable when a driver is that close to your ears, unless you EQ them properly to your personal hearing.

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post #47 of 53
10/22/10 at 8:06pm
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Dont use the headroom graph. Use a sine sweep from 20-20khz and your own ears. A dummy head does not have the same ears or brain as you. Neither does your friend, so dont expect your eq to sound good for everyone. Everyone has peaks and dips at slightly different freqs from person to person. Treble is a biggest problem area for headphones. Treble peaks are unavoidable when a driver is that close to your ears, unless you EQ them properly to your personal hearing.


The sine is great for understanding your headphones, there is a great sinewave generator for PC, unfortunately I cant find anything similar for mac... but I have boot camp that way I can do it on windows and get the frequencies that spike lowered with neutrino in mac...

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post #48 of 53
10/22/10 at 8:43pm

There is one program for the mac that is just like SineGen, its called AudioTest. But it costs $15 and nobody has ripped it off yet. Also, the trial expires after 90 days. But yeah, I also just use bootcamp to find the peaks with sinegen. It really the only way, unless you wanna manually type in the freqs in audacity or something.


Edited by EYEdROP - 10/22/10 at 8:44pm
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post #49 of 53
10/22/10 at 10:30pm

mostly appreciated EYEdROP, I recently downloaded ToneGen but this one is perfect!!!!

No more bootcamp, except for Call of Duty smily_headphones1.gif

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post #50 of 53
10/26/10 at 3:59pm
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EQ'd my DT880 about 30 mins after first listening.

 

At stock it's a very good phone. But it was just a tad bit too bright, the bass was a foot away from perfection and the mids while sounding good and detailed sounded recessed and forward at the same time which was kinda strange.

 

Now what I did was added a very slight boost to the bass, an extra boost to the 3,000khz frequency adding the much needed attack this phone needed and slightly lowered the high frequencies to tame/smooth down the treble.

 

Here's what it would look like:

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What you do exactly as add a 0.5 or 1 decibel boost from the lowest frequency range to 1,500khz. This adds just enough bass so the bass sounds present.

 

At the 3,000 frequency depending on your taste, add a decibel boost from 1.0 to 2.5. This brings out the mids/attack more. (I have it at 2.0)

 

From the 5,000-8,000 range lower the frequencies by 0.5 db.

 

Finally from 10,000khz to as a high as you can go on your EQ lower the frequencies by 1.0 db.


Edited by bisayaboi - 10/26/10 at 6:23pm
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post #51 of 53
10/26/10 at 4:03pm

Just my opinion, but I would of held out on the EQing until after the 100 hour mark as burn-in will change the headphones until then, maybe even a little after. Maybe you would have found out after this period of time the headphones had changed to your liking and didn't need EQ, though even if they still did, the EQ would be more relevant as most of the changing sound from burn in (or your ears getting used to them if you don't believe in burn in) would be complete.

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post #52 of 53
10/26/10 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by matthewh133 View Post

Just my opinion, but I would of held out on the EQing until after the 100 hour mark as burn-in will change the headphones until then, maybe even a little after. Maybe you would have found out after this period of time the headphones had changed to your liking and didn't need EQ, though even if they still did, the EQ would be more relevant as most of the changing sound form burn in (or your ears getting used to them if you don't believe in burn in) would be complete.

I was actually thinking of the same thing but I really don't believe in burn-in and I also refuse to turn off the EQ considering how great my DT880's sound now.
 

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post #53 of 53
10/27/10 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by bisayaboi View Post

I was actually thinking of the same thing but I really don't believe in burn-in and I also refuse to turn off the EQ considering how great my DT880's sound now.
 


I say: no reason not to EQ them right out of the box.  You can always adjust the EQ later on if burn in changes things.  I have DT880/250's too, and I think I would just add a little boost in the 3kHz range like you suggest.  I really like the lows and highs as-is !!  :-)
 

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