I am going to burn in on my smsl m3. just stream selected. for 9 days.
confused about the nozzles, I saw
small (which was obvious)
medium (to my eyes green)
large (black)
I chose the green filter. which I assumed to be balanced. foam tips.
I own moondrop variations, so I already have something with too much pinna gain. It's fun. I like horns and vocals. great experience but that's mostly why I went with fd7 (lower pinna gain) I also have fh5s coming in today, and really want to pull trigger on fh9 soon. I am probably fairly biased when it comes to fiio products. They are just fun tunings to me and fantastic build quality. I always worry about resin shells and the dunu zens give me a heart attack every time they would clank together.
I am 32 years old and have played trumpet for 9 years. For most of my life I have probably played my headphones too loud but I am starting to train my ears for lower listening levels in attempt to preserve what hearing I have left. I think after 12k it's more of a feeling or like sound pressure level for me.
I was just thinking the other night, and there are just so many things I look for in headphones, that aren't natural and are purely technical aspects created by headphones for a more engaging experience. separation, details, macrodynamics, imaging are just some things I don't recall every picking out in a symphonic live set band.
did y'all see this btw. just about 25 minutes into writing this and listening, allowing myself to create my own opinion, blon came to mind.
In my experience woodwinds and brass sections create this syrupy euphonic sound. lush and thick. BA's don't represent this IMO. They can sound cold and clinical, and sometimes I really want that but I need something like fd7 in my lineup because its in my opinion non fatiguing and euphonic. snarky puppy is interesting because they blend a lot of electric and acoustic instruments but fd7 still presents everything to me as one sound. In an acoustic environment things aren't separated and spread apart. They all blend together. I typically praise a unit and it's ability to allow me to track specific instruments and not blend them together but the more I chase that, the less natural and lush the sound becomes.
For me personally timbre, imaging, and soundstage are more important qualities to have when I think about accuracy and realism. as of right now, I think the fd7 has excellent body presence but maybe slightly lacking definition. the mids sound a bit cavernous to me. Like toms and keys sound a bit hollow in my session. I really like the treble, I think it has a nice presence and might be the best detailed out of the entire freq band. better imaging in the top end for me. timbre is great across the board. I like it better than the zen because I felt the zen had way too much pinna gain and an unnatural transient response. way too heavy.
sorry for long post and bad grammar, I am lazy. and thanks everyone else for impressions. can't want for 9 days when I can revisit these things!
