Audeze LCD i4 TOTL In-Ear Monitor Discussion

[BaltColts]

Does anyone have the parametric EQ settings for the Toneboosters EQ on USB Audio Player Pro? Thanks for your help.

 

[Ken G]

Does anyone have the parametric EQ settings for the Toneboosters EQ on USB Audio Player Pro? Thanks for your help.

Below is what I use. It can be found on the AutoEQ site here:

https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/tree/master/results

Preamp: -6.7 dB
Filter 1: ON PK Fc 18 Hz Gain 5.5 dB Q 0.58
Filter 2: ON PK Fc 47 Hz Gain 1.9 dB Q 0.93
Filter 3: ON PK Fc 675 Hz Gain -5.1 dB Q 0.33
Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1679 Hz Gain -7.0 dB Q 2.02
Filter 5: ON PK Fc 3193 Hz Gain 9.4 dB Q 0.69
Filter 6: ON PK Fc 494 Hz Gain 0.9 dB Q 2.08
Filter 7: ON PK Fc 752 Hz Gain -1.0 dB Q 4.12
Filter 8: ON PK Fc 2446 Hz Gain 3.3 dB Q 6.50
Filter 9: ON PK Fc 7084 Hz Gain 8.2 dB Q 0.97
Filter 10: ON PK Fc 18472 Hz Gain -7.5 dB Q 0.08

 

[BaltColts]

thanks so much

 

[dasadab]

Would love to find settings for a five band parametric set up. That’s what my dap supports. If anybody has such a thing, I would really appreciate it.

 

[EagleWings]

I can’t seem to find my post where I had shared my EQ settings I used on my LPG for the i4. But it was something like this:

Filter 1: LSF, F=160Hz, Q=1, Gain=+3dB
Filter 2: Peak, F=1400Hz, Q=1, Gain=-4dB
Filter 3: Peak, F=3000Hz, Q=1, Gain=+10dB
Filter 4: Peak, F=10000Hz, Q=1, Gain=-4dB
Filter 5: None

I don’t recall if the maximum Q value Lotto supports was 1 or 1.5. But if you can go upto 1.5, use 1.5 for filter 2 and 4.

 

[dasadab]

I can’t seem to find my post where I had shared my EQ settings I used on my LPG for the i4. But it was something like this:

Filter 1: LSF, F=160Hz, Q=1, Gain=+3dB
Filter 2: Peak, F=1400Hz, Q=1, Gain=-4dB
Filter 3: Peak, F=3000Hz, Q=1, Gain=+10dB
Filter 4: Peak, F=10000Hz, Q=1, Gain=-4dB
Filter 5: None

I don’t recall if the maximum Q value Lotto supports was 1 or 1.5. But if you can go upto 1.5, use 1.5 for filter 2 and 4.

Thank you very much!

 

[Marshall95]

Guys, i have to make it clear that I'm a noob when it comes to EQing, I want to buy the Lcdi4 and I have a SE180 dap, does anyone know what settings i should apply on it are the EQ settings the same on all these AK daps? I've also heard that AK daps are useless when it comes to EQing but I have no choice :/ (I also don't use an iphone)

 

[normie610]

Guys, i have to make it clear that I'm a noob when it comes to EQing, I want to buy the Lcdi4 and I have a SE180 dap, does anyone know what settings i should apply on it are the EQ settings the same on all these AK daps? I've also heard that AK daps are useless when it comes to EQing but I have no choice :/ (I also don't use an iphone)

If SE180 has USB-C, then you can connect the i4 with cipher cable using USB-C to Lightning adapter from Anker. It will automatically apply the EQ in cipher. The downside is you won’t be using SE180’s DAC as it only functions as a digital transport. I don’t know about SE180 but from other models (e.g. SP2K), the EQ in AK DAPs has very minimal effect on sound.

 

[srinivasvignesh]

I would recommend using UAPP with Toneboosters PMEQ or Neutron player, with PMEQ, on Android devices with a typeC-type C cable to feed the DAC of the AK player. Then use the Phone out/Line out from the AK DAP. As a future step, I would also suggest amping the LO from the DAP, and the i4 can definitely scale. There are enough EQ setting shared here in this thread that can be taken.

 

[x RELIC x]

Guys, i have to make it clear that I'm a noob when it comes to EQing, I want to buy the Lcdi4 and I have a SE180 dap, does anyone know what settings i should apply on it are the EQ settings the same on all these AK daps? I've also heard that AK daps are useless when it comes to EQing but I have no choice :/ (I also don't use an iphone)

You can always try without EQ. Myself and many others use the i4 and enjoy it with any EQ. Despite what some insist, EQ is a choice and not a requirement for the i4 to sound ‘good’.

 

[normie610]

Well the cipher cable and Reveal plugin are there for a reason. If i4 doesn’t need EQ, then Audeze wouldn’t bother creating the plugin and cipher cable. But again, YMMV.

 

[srinivasvignesh]

Audeze has stopped production of the cipher cable for i4, BTW. In case anyone did not know. But to your point, the cipher cable gives the easiest way to accomplish top notch sound from a portable solution point of view.

 

[normie610]

Audeze has stopped production of the cipher cable for i4, BTW. In case anyone did not know. But to your point, the cipher cable gives the easiest way to accomplish top notch sound from a portable solution point of view.

Ah thanks, I guess you’re right. Just checked the website, and they only include the bluetooth cipher. Perhaps they’ve somewhat modified the tuning with the more recent production runs. I bought mine when it was first released in 2017, so maybe there’s a difference.

 

[Marshall95]

I just wanna say I appreciate all of you. It's random but I feel like a world without this community would be dull to me.

 

[srinivasvignesh]

But Reveal still exists for the same reason you suggested. From my interactions with Audeze, there is no more cipher despite no difference in tuning of the earphone