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For anyone using Roon or a player that has the capability to use convolution filters, I highly recommend Audeze's files KMann recently shared:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/audeze-dsp-presets-now-available-in-roon.858730/page-9#post-16997776
I've been using it the last few hours and am kinda blown away (plus an additional little bump in bass and treble that I'll share below). I really don't want to pull the Euclids out and go to sleep. It's far superior to the result you get if you load the PEQ parameters KMann provided that he said is used in the Cipher cable. Like ... way ... WAY better! (I will eventually measure the electrical EQ curve and will share that once I have it.)
My personal preference however is to supplement the following Parametric EQ DSP before the Convolution filter:
Band 1: Low Shelf | 78 Hz | 2.5dB | 1.2 Q
Band 2: High Shelf | 7000 Hz | 1.6 dB | 0.6 Q
(Band 2 may be unnecessary or undesirable for you, if you are young and/or have better hearing than me. Also, you may find 9000 or 6000 Hz or anything akin to that, or Q of 0.7 or 0.5 , or a different amplitude suits you; I'm doing 8000, 1.7, 0.8 with some Gary Newman remixes atm. Or like I said, nothing at all there. Its goal is to bring out the bite of modulations and make the treble more snappy and edgy in a subtle way, which I felt it needed to balance the bass boost. At least, imo.)
With the above EQ + Audeze's Convolution filter (that will eventually be added to the special Audeze filter DSP section, once Roon Labs does the work to integrate, test and deploy it) it sounds like I have a full size Audeze headphone on my head, but without the weight.
I also engage Headroom management with -1.0 dB pre-amp cut and enable the Clip indicator just to ensure I don't need more cut. All my music has ReplayGain calculated and embedded, and Roon's Volume Leveling at the Track level is engaged. If you don't use that, you may need to apply more pre-amp cut here.
I'm using the extremely capable M17 as dac-amp, but source from Roon rather than local mSD card library. Because the Roon iOS and Android app resamples to 48Khz, I wont use those to play or output music on those devices, just as a controller when playing on another device. Roon is streaming to a Kangaroo micro PC that I'm running via a large battery pack; I'm not running anything else on it other than RoonBridge. Then streaming USB from that into my new portable FiiO M17 on the stand running off DC in "Enhanced Over-Ear headphone" mode. With near limitless power (capable of delivering something nearing 3 watts per channel into the Euclid's super low impedance in that mode), but used judiciously -- as it will easily make you deaf or blow the Euclid if not -- it makes the Euclid shine beyond anything else I have; dare I say better than driven from either of my sizable and weighty desktop beauties, my McIntosh MHA-100 or Woo Audio WA-22. If you're tempted by the M17 I say do it!
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/audeze-dsp-presets-now-available-in-roon.858730/page-9#post-16997776
I've been using it the last few hours and am kinda blown away (plus an additional little bump in bass and treble that I'll share below). I really don't want to pull the Euclids out and go to sleep. It's far superior to the result you get if you load the PEQ parameters KMann provided that he said is used in the Cipher cable. Like ... way ... WAY better! (I will eventually measure the electrical EQ curve and will share that once I have it.)
My personal preference however is to supplement the following Parametric EQ DSP before the Convolution filter:
Band 1: Low Shelf | 78 Hz | 2.5dB | 1.2 Q
Band 2: High Shelf | 7000 Hz | 1.6 dB | 0.6 Q
(Band 2 may be unnecessary or undesirable for you, if you are young and/or have better hearing than me. Also, you may find 9000 or 6000 Hz or anything akin to that, or Q of 0.7 or 0.5 , or a different amplitude suits you; I'm doing 8000, 1.7, 0.8 with some Gary Newman remixes atm. Or like I said, nothing at all there. Its goal is to bring out the bite of modulations and make the treble more snappy and edgy in a subtle way, which I felt it needed to balance the bass boost. At least, imo.)
With the above EQ + Audeze's Convolution filter (that will eventually be added to the special Audeze filter DSP section, once Roon Labs does the work to integrate, test and deploy it) it sounds like I have a full size Audeze headphone on my head, but without the weight.
I also engage Headroom management with -1.0 dB pre-amp cut and enable the Clip indicator just to ensure I don't need more cut. All my music has ReplayGain calculated and embedded, and Roon's Volume Leveling at the Track level is engaged. If you don't use that, you may need to apply more pre-amp cut here.
I'm using the extremely capable M17 as dac-amp, but source from Roon rather than local mSD card library. Because the Roon iOS and Android app resamples to 48Khz, I wont use those to play or output music on those devices, just as a controller when playing on another device. Roon is streaming to a Kangaroo micro PC that I'm running via a large battery pack; I'm not running anything else on it other than RoonBridge. Then streaming USB from that into my new portable FiiO M17 on the stand running off DC in "Enhanced Over-Ear headphone" mode. With near limitless power (capable of delivering something nearing 3 watts per channel into the Euclid's super low impedance in that mode), but used judiciously -- as it will easily make you deaf or blow the Euclid if not -- it makes the Euclid shine beyond anything else I have; dare I say better than driven from either of my sizable and weighty desktop beauties, my McIntosh MHA-100 or Woo Audio WA-22. If you're tempted by the M17 I say do it!
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