Fabithierry
New Head-Fier
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I use Foobar to stream audio from my Subsonic client via home network, though it can work outside of network as well. Works really well, there is an option in Subsonic to play the files in external player using playlist and uncompressed files can be streamed as is without conversion to MP3 by default.
One question.... did anyone try to configure the Foobar equalizer to compensate for the headphone frequency graph? For instance, my current HE-400 has small spikes around 1kHz and a drop around 3-5kHz and 11 and 12 kHz as posted on the graphs from here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/HiFiMANHE400.pdf. Also significant drop in the treble region after 11kHz and more.
So I thought it might be a good idea to compensate these spikes and drops via equalizer in Foobar to make the HE-400 sound more linear and flat.
I created a preset file that has the following data in it (the actual filename is he-400.feq, sorry I cannot post attachments):
5
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
-1
2
5
6
7
6
4
6
9
It makes HE-400 sound much more alive and realistic, I think, with more body to the mids, more clarity in the upper treble and punchier bass.
Was that already discussed in the forum and I am just reinventing the wheel? There might be equalizer presets available for each phone somewhere, I have not searched for them yet though.
Any thoughts?
I use Foobar to stream audio from my Subsonic client via home network, though it can work outside of network as well. Works really well, there is an option in Subsonic to play the files in external player using playlist and uncompressed files can be streamed as is without conversion to MP3 by default.
One question.... did anyone try to configure the Foobar equalizer to compensate for the headphone frequency graph? For instance, my current HE-400 has small spikes around 1kHz and a drop around 3-5kHz and 11 and 12 kHz as posted on the graphs from here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/HiFiMANHE400.pdf. Also significant drop in the treble region after 11kHz and more.
So I thought it might be a good idea to compensate these spikes and drops via equalizer in Foobar to make the HE-400 sound more linear and flat.
I created a preset file that has the following data in it (the actual filename is he-400.feq, sorry I cannot post attachments):
5
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
-1
2
5
6
7
6
4
6
9
It makes HE-400 sound much more alive and realistic, I think, with more body to the mids, more clarity in the upper treble and punchier bass.
Was that already discussed in the forum and I am just reinventing the wheel? There might be equalizer presets available for each phone somewhere, I have not searched for them yet though.
Any thoughts?
Made some updates to my skin.