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I assume you have the superfreq with music lover crossover.
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by e_resolu /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Are you sur you don't have also a fitting problrem issue like a lot of people have ? Does the sound change when you press them inside your ears ?
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You know, I was going to say I have a minor fit problem but it doesn't seem to cause the sound problems because I've messed around with pushing them around before. But then I thought I'd better do the vacuuming before my wife gets home, and I mulled over your question while doing it with my SuperFreqs on.
The vacuum cleaner makes it easy to hear differing levels of isolation. Almost anything I do with my jaw apart from a neutral noticeably reduces the isolation in my right ear - and seems like it may also be correlated with the squelching sound I hear on that side when I move my jaw. If I move my jaw far enough I can do the same with my left ear, although it takes more effort. This suggests to me that the fit is not quite right - and maybe some of the squelching will go away when it's properly adjusted.
But when my jaw is in the right spot, the sound seems decent (after EQ and/or depending on the track). I get fairly robust and deep bass which doesn't happen without a seal - and if I push up on the base of my ears near the skull to deliberately break the seal the bass all but disappears.
Sometimes in the past I have felt like the bass is vibrating the Freqs in my ears and either echoing or making it a bit loose, but I need to recheck that - it may just have been part of the initial adjustment to the different presentation & headstage.
If I push in on the middle of the right earpiece, if anything it makes the sound worse. Typically the balance seems to shift to the left (mainly because the bottoms/low-mids drop out of the right). I think this breaks the seal a bit (because my inner ear flaps are forming part of the seal?), and it doesn't feel like there's really room for it that deep in my ear (maybe slightly too large in that dimension?)
If I push in at the top or back or front it's the same as the middle; at the bottom there's only a minor change (although it makes my ear canal itch, as does pushing on the front!)
On the left earpiece pushing anywhere but the top seems to make little difference; the top breaks the seal and shifts the balance to the right.
I also wonder if there's a physiological change from day to day or during the day, or a burn-in or psychological adjustment phase (and/or a source dependency, as someone else posted)? The flat EQ out of my laptop doesn't sound as objectionable today as it has on other days (but the EQ does improve things). I think I need to find half a dozen test tracks that I have the worst response to and try some more combinations of variables against those tracks...
