Paul Meakin
100+ Head-Fier
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Here is a composite of the old (orange) and new (blue) frequency response graphs for my LCD-2s. I still think vocals are quite seductive despite the significant change in the frequency response. The 009s, on the other hand, from some Japanese measurements have a huge peak at 4k, making them sound both forward and bright and exacerbating any harshness in, say, trumpets and saxophones.
[size=medium]There is no free lunch.[/size]
[size=medium]An eq will introduce phase shift, smeared transient, distortion and resonance. There are some eq that have better characteristics but there is no eq without phase shift, smeared transient, distortion and resonance.[/size]
[size=medium]Shelf eq are less problematic that peak eq. Also eq near the half of the sampling frequency will introduce more distortions.[/size]
[size=medium]Best eq are still analog but they color the sound, pleasantly but surely not transparently.[/size]
[size=medium]I can directly hear the drawbacks of an eq with high end headphones (that's why they are high end). The only choice you have is in the electronic (dac and amp) that will complement your headphone. Upsampling might open up the top end if you have a very good resampler (and if your dac doesn't resample anyway).[/size]
[size=medium]So eq with high end headphone isn't a good idea because the cure is worst than the disease.[/size]
You know what's amazing about that graph? The new frequency response essentially looks almost identical to the response I created with my custom EQ curve for the LCD-2 rev.1. Great minds think alike, it seems.