andrewwardell
100+ Head-Fier
Thanks for offering to do some request listens, but all I really want to know is if it was audibly different between straight out of the v20 vis a vis your iematch at ultra? I thought you mentioned IEMatch earlier in the thread. Or a low impedance source. I could be wrong.
Quite right, I’m AB-ing at the moment and my immediate impression is that on ‘Ultra’ it pulls the midrange back a bit, most notably with vocals. The difference is subtle, but perceptible. I don’t think it makes any negative impact on the rest of the signal, but it drops the noise floor significantly! Without the IEMatch in the signal path I can hear lots of noise floor at the end of songs or in quiet passages of music regardless of which app I’m using to play back music. With the IEMatch in the path, even if it’s set to ‘high’ that noise floor drops way down. Running it in ‘high’ leaves the mids where they were, but pushes the noise floor down.
Without the IEMatch in the signal path I can only really run the V20 at 20-25/75 (~33%) with it set to ‘high’ that goes up to 35/75 (~50%) and in ‘ultra’ I need to wind it up to 50/75 (~66%) but there’s still plenty of headroom there.
Hope that’s useful, did I leave anything out?
Edit: The track I tested with was a FLAC of ‘Degrees’ by Aaron Spectre from his Bandcamp page.
Edit2: The IEMatch is a snug, but totally doable fit in the included “pelican” case along with the IEMs
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