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Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions
Does anyone know how can you get a correction graph out of Mimi? Great effect with the variable slider to dial out the Harmon shout for old ears or ears that are just more sensitive to upper mids, but I've been quite curious about what it is actually changing. I tried the Mimi standalone app...- discombob
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- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Focal Bathys - Wireless ANC Over-Ear Headphone
The 1.5-2 seconds between starting an audio source and it actually playing on Windows 11 is starting to really annoy me. Did anyone find a work-around? Hopefully, if it is firmware related (because I don't remember this happening before), there will be a fix soon. Sound is just unreal with...- discombob
- Post #1,665
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions
Just checking in to say, that after continuing to work with Mimi's intensity level and the built in EQ together for very slight preference tweaks over what she tested me for, I am continuing to be blown away by Bathys now and then. I *highly* doubt any other Focal (or even headphone, at this...- discombob
- Post #1,589
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions
After a couple more days of listening with Mimi... it is crazy how much more air and detail I hear up top, but I've also noticed some masking in other frequencies I previously enjoyed in some recordings, and [maybe] a very slightly narrower soundstage. I guess when you make these trade-offs...- discombob
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Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions
Mimi is working fine in DAC mode on Windows 11 with ASIO4all driver out of Winyl or Musicbee over here. You can also tune the strength of the correction to your preference by playing something over bluetooth and adjusting the strength slider for a real-time tune. I ended up dropping it down to...- discombob
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Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions
Wow, so it's 2023 and I've been obsessed with music since about 1990. What a nice situation where we finally have a head-fi tier headphone with decent drivers that can image (unlike many of the consumer noise cancellers) that adapts to our hearing. This is a dream come true, as my hearing has...- discombob
- Post #1,336
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Focal Stellia Review, Measurements, Interview - Head-Fi TV
I'm having a dilemma here. I have Bathys and am *seriously* impressed as they've broken in. The customizable EQ and noise cancelling are killer features in maximizing listening comfort too, but I like them so much I am quite tempted by the idea of Stellia being some kind of closed-back endgame...- discombob
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Sennheiser PXC 550 Discussion and Reviews
Do the PXC550s actually support any other output sample rate than 48 khz? For as flexible as these usually are, I can't seem to get them to respond to any other rates in Ableton Live (ASIO4all) or Jriver (kernel sream or WASAPI), where I have to convert to 48 khz at playback or there are errors...- discombob
- Post #115
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Sennheiser PXC 550 Discussion and Reviews
You know what's kinda funny? You got me more curious tonight so I reconnected them to my phone and they were still quiet... until I "turned them up" with my finger on the right cup! DERP. I guess the analog input on these is run through their internal mixer, which is pretty smart but...- discombob
- Post #92
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Sennheiser PXC 550 Discussion and Reviews
They were almost unusably quiet for me when passively wired as well... even with an amp. Kinda sad for studio work in certain situations.- discombob
- Post #87
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Seattle Red Hook Meet July 30, 2016
Sorry to report it, but we lost that room in Bellingham this year as it is booked for a large product training almost all summer.- discombob
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- Forum: Local / Regional Head-Fi Meets, Parties, Get-Togethers
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Sennheiser PXC 550 Discussion and Reviews
I got a pair of these and they are so impressive, really. I can't believe mobile can sound this good: - My sound quality estimate is about 80% of the way to HD600 or 700 level when streaming Tidal lossless over USB. Transparency on Bluetooth suffers, as with most wireless headphones. I do...- discombob
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- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Grado Fan Club!
I sure wouldn't mind a listening session with a 325e. With the way the treble has been handled in the new e-series, I would expect to like them and again the value proposition from Grado is amazing, but like many others have reported the L-pads absolutely murder my earlobes after 25 minutes...- discombob
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Grado Fan Club!
I couldn't agree more with the PS500e; used to have 325is and they were too bright with "hot", almost distorted sounding upper mids. PS500e with EarZonk G (NOT Grado oem, which are also too edgy) are basically perfection. They sound balanced and natural with just a bit of a bass boost and the...- discombob
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Grado Fan Club!
OK, I swapped my EarZonks for stock G-cush from a GS2000/Sympones v7 clone at the Seattle meet this weekend and it definitely made my PS500e have slightly less bass and far hotter treble. It sounded a lot like the clone I swapped from. Going back to Ear Zonks tamed the treble into the...- discombob
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