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I personally prefer cans that are powered to work passively, and at least sound good there. Don't cut corners, make them sound good unpowered. Why? Not just for the people who want good sound passively, but it's easier to make a passively good sounding headphone sound better through software and powered options after the fact. Think about it. Ringy, resonant, hollow sound. They have to literally fix all of those problems first. I don't mean sonic preferences, those are issue no listener would want.
THEN the customization by power and software can make a generally good sound better fit what you like and your ear shape. Honestly, once I ran that software, what it gave me was amazing sounding in spatiality and in other ways. It was unusable on any song with heavy sub bass. Even if I turned the bass feature down all the way, so you can't blame that. When you seal a driver that well, you have to deal with bass standing waves, if you don't, they will distort the driver and cause that kind of problem.
On sizing. I have above average ear circumference (measurements top to bottom, left to right) but I'm 6'5" so that is expected. They fit around my ear ok, but I actually I have flatter than average ears (possibly being a side-sleeper). One extension with ear tip fit perfectly, the other no matter what, never seated in my ear quite far enough. Without slightly longer but flexible length tubes, it may be impossible to have these truly fit everyone universally. They have got something here, it just needs more work.
THEN the customization by power and software can make a generally good sound better fit what you like and your ear shape. Honestly, once I ran that software, what it gave me was amazing sounding in spatiality and in other ways. It was unusable on any song with heavy sub bass. Even if I turned the bass feature down all the way, so you can't blame that. When you seal a driver that well, you have to deal with bass standing waves, if you don't, they will distort the driver and cause that kind of problem.
On sizing. I have above average ear circumference (measurements top to bottom, left to right) but I'm 6'5" so that is expected. They fit around my ear ok, but I actually I have flatter than average ears (possibly being a side-sleeper). One extension with ear tip fit perfectly, the other no matter what, never seated in my ear quite far enough. Without slightly longer but flexible length tubes, it may be impossible to have these truly fit everyone universally. They have got something here, it just needs more work.
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