TheOneInYellow
1000+ Head-Fier
Just off the ongoing cable topic...I am slowly falling in love with the default sound profile of the Solitaire T (not using Bass Boost preset from the app).
I have used my Solitaire T, in Bluetooth HQ mode, solidly throughout my shift whilst working from home today, approximately six hours of listening in fact.
Throughout today, I listened to my music in both Flat EQ (stock sound) and Bass Boost presets, but more and more stuck with the former. I also took long phone calls too, and the call quality is great on both ends; ANC was not used at all.
I'll be taking them with me into the office tomorrow for further experimentation. In the office I could see the benefit of Bass Boost and Bluetooth HQ, but I could also use Bluetooth standard and ANC instead for perhaps a better sound quality experience.
Bass Boost preset is still useful on particular albums or tracks, but after much testing, I dislike how it affects the upper-bass and lower-mids, veiling the gorgeous midrange presentation.
As before, I'd like to tweak the bass only by a little lift, between +2dB to +4dB (with a leaner curve into the midrange). The +6dB more curvy profile as it descends into the midrange has irritated me today.
To put another way, the stock sound (Flat EQ preset, aka no EQ) is superior, with the small exception of just a tad too quiet in subsonic bass presence for me.
The years of Focal Elear and Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 1 are ebbing away, and I'm thoroughly enjoying the natural, hyper realistic, and engaging voice that is the T+A Solitaire T!
In Bluetooth streaming quality no less!
I'm genuinely floored, this is simply unlike any wireless headphones, which are voiced for a more mainstream audience (do not take that as a negative to such cans, that sound profile is its own type of fun!).
I seriously want to listen to my Solitaire T in balanced mode, and I'm going to go further and start planning a new setup around them.
I've not been this hyped or so impressed in a very long time, especially for a more neutral headphone!
It makes fun of other types of neutral sounding cans that are virtually soulless and anaemic, but Solitaire T are neutral and fun!
That treble, just just off sibilant but yet creates crazy high sound pressure, creates one of the finest intimate airy soundstages I've yet heard.
I'd loved a bigger soundstage of course, but I don't feel like I'm losing anything either, probably because the control, grip, and execution of micro and macro details in music in a smaller soundscape just works.
I'm fairly certain that I'll trade in my Focal Elear's, and I'll also move my even older AKG K 712's with gel pads as well (still have the K 701's, but that's special, even if unused and in long storage).
What a headphone; superb toned neutrality!
WIRELESSLY (can't stress how crazy that is!).
I have used my Solitaire T, in Bluetooth HQ mode, solidly throughout my shift whilst working from home today, approximately six hours of listening in fact.
Throughout today, I listened to my music in both Flat EQ (stock sound) and Bass Boost presets, but more and more stuck with the former. I also took long phone calls too, and the call quality is great on both ends; ANC was not used at all.
I'll be taking them with me into the office tomorrow for further experimentation. In the office I could see the benefit of Bass Boost and Bluetooth HQ, but I could also use Bluetooth standard and ANC instead for perhaps a better sound quality experience.
Bass Boost preset is still useful on particular albums or tracks, but after much testing, I dislike how it affects the upper-bass and lower-mids, veiling the gorgeous midrange presentation.
As before, I'd like to tweak the bass only by a little lift, between +2dB to +4dB (with a leaner curve into the midrange). The +6dB more curvy profile as it descends into the midrange has irritated me today.
To put another way, the stock sound (Flat EQ preset, aka no EQ) is superior, with the small exception of just a tad too quiet in subsonic bass presence for me.
The years of Focal Elear and Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 1 are ebbing away, and I'm thoroughly enjoying the natural, hyper realistic, and engaging voice that is the T+A Solitaire T!
In Bluetooth streaming quality no less!
I'm genuinely floored, this is simply unlike any wireless headphones, which are voiced for a more mainstream audience (do not take that as a negative to such cans, that sound profile is its own type of fun!).
I seriously want to listen to my Solitaire T in balanced mode, and I'm going to go further and start planning a new setup around them.
I've not been this hyped or so impressed in a very long time, especially for a more neutral headphone!
It makes fun of other types of neutral sounding cans that are virtually soulless and anaemic, but Solitaire T are neutral and fun!
That treble, just just off sibilant but yet creates crazy high sound pressure, creates one of the finest intimate airy soundstages I've yet heard.
I'd loved a bigger soundstage of course, but I don't feel like I'm losing anything either, probably because the control, grip, and execution of micro and macro details in music in a smaller soundscape just works.
I'm fairly certain that I'll trade in my Focal Elear's, and I'll also move my even older AKG K 712's with gel pads as well (still have the K 701's, but that's special, even if unused and in long storage).
What a headphone; superb toned neutrality!
WIRELESSLY (can't stress how crazy that is!).
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