EQ'ing IEM's to Taste

[Spyro]

In case of ER4S and SE530, most would think one is light on bass and the other is light on treble (rolled off highs). With all things being equal, which of these two would respond better to EQ'ing to "fix" it's deficiency? Or would they respond similarly? I hear Etys are among the best at responding to EQ'ing.

Anybody have both and been able to play around with custom EQ? or Rockbox?

 

[jinx20001]

ive rockboxed the se530 to perfection, i really have, i think the multi driver earphones simply resond better to EQ because they are not hardware limited.

in other words if you boost the bass on single driver IEM's there is a limit before distortion begins or the mids and highs are affected...due to it all coming through the same driver

 

[jinx20001]

i think it was headphoneaddict that set up the perfect se530 settings on rockbox, the highs really did come to life and soundstage got huge (by IEM standards)

i can list those settings if you like so you can give it a whirl, but if i remember rightly you've gone over to the light side with the triple fi's

 

[eruditass]

click on e500's in my sig, he claims to make them sound like his UE10's.

havn't heard of such with ER4S, but perhaps they have no desire to do so.

regardless, ergonomically e500's win

 

[jinx20001]

thanks for that link i was thinking who it was that made that solution on rockbox and i said earlier it was headphoneaddict but i was completely wrong it was davidmahler and it is a good setup. as i said earlier the bass appears tighter (but maybe just lighter) and the highs do come to life as if someone put a new tweeter in them