shotgunshane
Headphoneus Supremus
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Reminds me a little of the FX500 graph:
Joe Bloggs, interesting post about eq but I have what may be a very naive question: would home speakers/stereo benefit from eq in a similar way that you describe for headphones? I have tried to improve my home system in the last year mainly by trying a couple of different speakers but nothing has really worked in a significant way. It is a tough room with cathedral ceiling and cutouts which I think are a big part of the problem. Do you think eq could potentially make a large improvement? Thanks.
Speakers? You can do better than EQ. You can measure the impulse response of your speakers using a reference microphone and deconvolve the impulse response to cancel out all room effects at your listening sweet spot. The result could be equivalent to thousands of dollars spent on room treatment. I haven't done this myself since I don't have a speaker system good enough to do it on, but looking up "impulse measurement microphone" and "deconvolution" on google would point you in the right direction, I think. You could try posting the question on the hydrogenaudio.org forums too, they have some very technically proficient people there. Alternatively, I gather that some home theatre surround amplifiers carrry a limited form of this functionality in that you can buy measurement microphones for use with them, use them at your listening sweet spot and they will calculate some compensation parameters automatically. What those compensations are I don't know; maybe it is indeed parametric equalization.
edit: after some more reading I'm not sure that the home theatre amplifier auto-calibration does anything more than volume matching between different speakers at the sweet spot. You're welcome to do your own research. As for the SHE3580. Try different tips and try pulling the right ear back with your left hand (from behind the head) while pushing in the right bud with your right hand, and vice versa for the left bud. These should have enough bass for everybody and no bass is the first sign of a bad fit.
*if you want to discuss those speakers more, perhaps open a thread in the Computer Audio forum and post a link here? That would be the most appropriate forum to expand on what you're asking.
Reminds me a little of the FX500 graph:
Have fun with your Isurus!
Hmmm, tbo I'm not so fond of what I'm hearing from the Isurus so far. These have too much and omnipresent bass for my taste, combined with rather thin and sharp highs. Not really my kind of sound sig, easily prefer the Philips 3580 so far.
Have you heard the TF10s? They have a similar sound-sig IMO.
Do a bit of tip-experimenting
So are do those TT IEMs compare to Dsnuts hype or am I better off spending money on higher premium IEMs?
Hmmm, tbo I'm not so fond of what I'm hearing from the Isurus so far. These have too much and omnipresent bass for my taste, combined with rather thin and sharp highs. Not really my kind of sound sig, easily prefer the Philips 3580 so far.