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Does anyone here add treble to their system?
I've posted impressions of the lyr and the he400 many times. Although the he400 is easy to amp for an ortho, it will scale up modestly with better gear. The lyr gives it a smooth lush sound and makes the bass even better....more dynamic. Of course this change will vary based on the tubes that you use.
If I was only driving the he400 and other easier to drive hp's, it would be hard to justify the expense of the lyr. If you have other hp's that need the power of the lyr it's a very good choice.
I'll go with a tilted sonic characteristic toward the high frequency, but never harsh to me. That's one thing I always liked about the SR80I that ive had for years, they never sounded harsh no matter what I played on them. Oh well, guess we all hear things differently.
Its interesting... Im not sure if its HP burn-IN or Brain Burn-In but i found the HE-400 a lot brigter when i got them.
After a few months (like 8) I still lower the treble slightly, but very little (when i started using the HP i was at -6 treble and +4 bass on the Fiio E17 as DAC, now its either 0 on both or just -2 on Treble).
I dont know if you guys are also gamers, but the clear sign that i had to lower the treble a bit was playing mass effect 2 and shooting a gun called "Tempest". It has a high pitch sound and on the HE-400 withoutt some EQ was clearly painfull to my ears.
Here you can hear the weapon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBIua0H8SM (watch in full HD)
After i Recived some great EQ config made by beaver316, that issue went away and i also enjoy music more (aka i can get the song louder withouth it beeing plainfull... As in, i have to be carefull not to increase the volume too much cus i dont feel it hurts at all).
I feel the treble could be a bit lower on these HP, but overall i still love them, and its nothing that cant be solved by a little EQ (and those planars EQ crazy good, i did some random testing and i have to say im impressed).
After so much time with these, im only waiting for a Schiit Bifrost UBER to be delivered to my local store. Its my last componenent for this audio setup.
What I do for gaming is use the Xonar STX equaliser and lower 8khz and 16khz by 4db and then they do not sound harsh at all, they are pretty good for games.
They are. However if you use an external DAC (in my case Fiio E17 instead of my creative X-Fi titanium) I can only get the singal lower by the FIio treble settings or some software eq (not to mention when i get the bifrost).
The X-Fi is a great Sound card but I actually havent tried it with the headphone amp (i assumed the sound will carry on the distortion and cycles of the CPU, and other electronics inside the case).
Grados Can be largely (!) dependent on pads.
The shown graph of the HE-400 are a graph of the rev. 1. The rev 2 graph are to be found elsewhere.