GuyMe
500+ Head-Fier
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Hello, I have also bought one of these soundhats. I've had em a couple weeks, got em for $100 bucks used. Mostly using the old fiio x3 tho I also have access to a 2nd gen one.
The brainwavz pleather memory foam pad things are way better than the original pads, which are like some sick joke of an ear torture fetishist. By default the hard plastic great drive straight into my tender and apparently massive ears. Driving my ears into the lower right corner with the headband clamped down tight with some cotton balls stuck under the pads on that side sorta helped, but that's no way to live.
I ended up stuffing cottonballs all over the place in there, and the sound did change massively, which I hope means I can manage to boost 5k up a bit. My issue is the new fiio x3k2nd generation has a more distant sound, I don't really get how a dac can be distant, does the preamp have a dip in the presence range too or something?! Anyway the 5k dip on the mt220 conspires with the larger headstage of the x3ii and I find voices get completely lost in amongst the bass and treble. Is there a known way to boost 5k through headphone mods? And possibly tame the 8-9k spike a tad.
The x3too otherwise has loads of detail, impact and seems roughly neutral. A great partner to this headphone overall, besides the issue with vocals.
X3 the first just needs a -1 on the analog eq for treble and it sounds damn nice, -2 is certainly more neutral, but that robs this headphones of a lot of its best qualities. It's more intimate but lack a lot of detail and texture and impact, still, I find it more engaging and generally prefer listening on it.
So ya i really like em lots for all their weird little foibles,especially since I've never really owned a modern V'd up sounding headphone before. I guess i post some youtubes now.
The brainwavz pleather memory foam pad things are way better than the original pads, which are like some sick joke of an ear torture fetishist. By default the hard plastic great drive straight into my tender and apparently massive ears. Driving my ears into the lower right corner with the headband clamped down tight with some cotton balls stuck under the pads on that side sorta helped, but that's no way to live.
I ended up stuffing cottonballs all over the place in there, and the sound did change massively, which I hope means I can manage to boost 5k up a bit. My issue is the new fiio x3k2nd generation has a more distant sound, I don't really get how a dac can be distant, does the preamp have a dip in the presence range too or something?! Anyway the 5k dip on the mt220 conspires with the larger headstage of the x3ii and I find voices get completely lost in amongst the bass and treble. Is there a known way to boost 5k through headphone mods? And possibly tame the 8-9k spike a tad.
The x3too otherwise has loads of detail, impact and seems roughly neutral. A great partner to this headphone overall, besides the issue with vocals.
X3 the first just needs a -1 on the analog eq for treble and it sounds damn nice, -2 is certainly more neutral, but that robs this headphones of a lot of its best qualities. It's more intimate but lack a lot of detail and texture and impact, still, I find it more engaging and generally prefer listening on it.
So ya i really like em lots for all their weird little foibles,especially since I've never really owned a modern V'd up sounding headphone before. I guess i post some youtubes now.
