jon parker
Headphoneus Supremus
E.T S (or whatever it was called!)
Im curious - If we had a say in how Bob designed and tuned some extra tuning filters what would you request?
I was thinking about it and at face value I thought it would be easy but . . . maybe not?
I could never quite get a natural enough sound for my original EDP. I talked to Bob about it in depth and he sent me a one piece orange coloured filter - it magically sorted everything out and all the slightly un natural weirdness disappeared !
For this reason I was excited to know what the new ETS filters would offer. For me they mostly seemed to calm down or attenuate aspects of the frequency range. Not a bad thing by any means but not perhaps ideal for the Dark Matter?
Anyway...over my long journey of IMR's Ive usually found I would like:
A lower filter that was in between one and another - for example - in between Black and grey or
an upper filter that softened the treble is quite specific frequency ranges whilst say, not affecting the mids
But then as I thought more I realized I am looking for filter to give me the the best of everything but in the most natural true-to-life sound as possible. In this regard I would say that that largely depends on the original tuning rather than being able to tweak to the sound to do that.
Also, people who are more 'Hi-Fi' minded than 'Audiophile' minded might simply want more 'bass' or more or less treble / mids.
Also the problem with extra filters is that you are always tunng for your specific hearing / set up / preferences
Another idea I had would be (at least for upper treble/mid filters) would be to simply use different materials inside them.
If you had 10 sheets of different micro density of acoustical foams you could cut small sections out and add different types yourself to them.
Tuning aside it seems the width of the inside of the lower []BASS] filters and small holes in the filter effect the amount of bass
As IMR seems to excel at tuning the low end maybe there is less 'need' to look into this?
Having said that its often the combination of many different aspects that results in the final sound, not so much a base line of one thing and then simply raising or lowering the amount of another frequency.
Its also worth considering my thoughts just revolve around slightly tweaking an existing sound signature / tuning.
There can be a fine line between tweaking a small part of the sound of an IEM or just facing the fact that you dont like it / the tuning doesn't suit you / the tuning doesn't have great synergy with your system
Anyway, just thought it was interesting trying to figure out what i would do or suggest if the option for additional filters was ever there
Im curious - If we had a say in how Bob designed and tuned some extra tuning filters what would you request?
I was thinking about it and at face value I thought it would be easy but . . . maybe not?
I could never quite get a natural enough sound for my original EDP. I talked to Bob about it in depth and he sent me a one piece orange coloured filter - it magically sorted everything out and all the slightly un natural weirdness disappeared !
For this reason I was excited to know what the new ETS filters would offer. For me they mostly seemed to calm down or attenuate aspects of the frequency range. Not a bad thing by any means but not perhaps ideal for the Dark Matter?
Anyway...over my long journey of IMR's Ive usually found I would like:
A lower filter that was in between one and another - for example - in between Black and grey or
an upper filter that softened the treble is quite specific frequency ranges whilst say, not affecting the mids
But then as I thought more I realized I am looking for filter to give me the the best of everything but in the most natural true-to-life sound as possible. In this regard I would say that that largely depends on the original tuning rather than being able to tweak to the sound to do that.
Also, people who are more 'Hi-Fi' minded than 'Audiophile' minded might simply want more 'bass' or more or less treble / mids.
Also the problem with extra filters is that you are always tunng for your specific hearing / set up / preferences
Another idea I had would be (at least for upper treble/mid filters) would be to simply use different materials inside them.
If you had 10 sheets of different micro density of acoustical foams you could cut small sections out and add different types yourself to them.
Tuning aside it seems the width of the inside of the lower []BASS] filters and small holes in the filter effect the amount of bass
As IMR seems to excel at tuning the low end maybe there is less 'need' to look into this?
Having said that its often the combination of many different aspects that results in the final sound, not so much a base line of one thing and then simply raising or lowering the amount of another frequency.
Its also worth considering my thoughts just revolve around slightly tweaking an existing sound signature / tuning.
There can be a fine line between tweaking a small part of the sound of an IEM or just facing the fact that you dont like it / the tuning doesn't suit you / the tuning doesn't have great synergy with your system
Anyway, just thought it was interesting trying to figure out what i would do or suggest if the option for additional filters was ever there
