tinyman392
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I've used my Max a couple of days now.
Think I got a fit issue? (I have a L+ size head )
I've tried different length with the telescoping arms, and different placement of the cups over the ears, but I don't find the right position where sound and ANC are stable.
Small movements of the cups, and the sound and ANC are different.
Actually, if I turn my head both the bass and ANC change.
I often get more bass on the left (especially sub bass), even if I use L on L, or R on L.
Is this software related? Is the Max adjusting anything with different placement (like the Adaptive EQ on the Airpods Pro?)
Or is it just leakage due to bad fit?
Looking forward to hear if any of you experience something similar.
You have a fitment issue which is affecting the internal (vs external) ANC and AdaptiveEQ mechanisms. Besides turning off ANC there likely isn’t much you can do. But the bad fit also means you have an inconsistent seal which would also likely affect sound.
In short the internal ANC is trying to cancel out the noise of your ear canal and microphonics. But since that keeps drastically changing in a way it’s not expecting to, you get wonkyness. On the other hand AdaptiveEQ is trying to adjust sound for the change of driver on the head but the changes are likely too large and possibly include changes in seal (breaking seal) which is has to keep trying to adapt for, but again can’t. I think Crinacle had similar issues (possibly to a lesser degree).
You can try to listen with ANC and transparency turned off. But that might kill off some features that people would buy this headphone for. It would also greatly diminish their value.