While their research has its merits despite the methodology caveats, it is important to note that the average person using the squig site to do any sort of EQ has already been exposed to Harman propaganda (dashed gray line means thin shouty IEM good).
When I dabbled in DIY, I used to get my colleagues (who couldn't careless about audio) to try my stuffs. Harman-like or Moondrop's VDSF tonality usually win. My stuffs tuned with less ear-gain and more lower mid usually does not do well in these listening tests, with listeners complaining about "muffle" and "lacking details".
YMMV. I made more than a dozen friends of mine try my earphone collection (see signature although I didn’t have IER series at the time) and pretty much everyone chose the XBA-N3 as the best sounding one. Above stuff like Variations which is probably the best Harman implementation out there.When I dabbled in DIY, I used to get my colleagues (who couldn't careless about audio) to try my stuffs. Harman-like or Moondrop's VDSF tonality usually win. My stuffs tuned with less ear-gain and more lower mid usually does not do well in these listening tests, with listeners complaining about "muffle" and "lacking details".
Of course, my (lack of) skill is also an important aspect here
With the mentions of Harman, assuming it's in relation to my EQ settings I shared, is there a particular change I indicated that makes one say "this is a Harman exposed user"? And that is true for me, until getting the P8, everything I owned was/is surely heavily Harman influenced (various galaxy buds, Bose and Sony ANC products, Sennheiser momentum 3, moondrop Kato).
Thanks! I'll play around with these settings.
Honeymoon is over for me and I still think they are perfect with no EQ.I must still be in my honeymoon period, as I have absolutely no wish to tinker with its wonderful sound
We must like the same type of tuning as I see we both have the Senn MTW3 too
Well, the MTW3 can be made to sound however you’d want with the apps EQ and sound personalization, but I do tune it somewhat close to the P8. Idk how close they would actually measure with the way I have them EQ’ed, but it sounds close enough and I enjoy them.We must like the same type of tuning as I see we both have the Senn MTW3 too
I prefer to average several squiglink graphs for a given IEM relative to my preferred and normalized target frequency response. I load the averaged graphs into the Peace GUI and then I perform my own parametric EQ for areas which I want to tweak. I don't use the delta 10 dB target since it always requires adding a strong bass shelf.Some more EQ sharing for feedback/criticism....
Was again fiddling on the squig site. Does doing something like this doing more good or bad? I auto EQ'd against the target from 200db-5800db. Stopped short of that rise to 6k, not sure if I should be trying to EQ that high... It spit out some numbers which I tweaked a tiny bit then added a shelf to. Definitely pushes voices and some instruments back a little versus stock tuning or my other EQ I shared, but also seems a bit bright to me at a first listen. I need to stay off these sites, end up spending more time playing with numbers than listening to music.
And another with the 6-7k peak reduced and the brightness I hear comes down a touch:
Interesting, How do you combine and average if I may ask?
