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Radsone ES100 - EQ settings

I should have posted this way before, as I wanted to share my EQ settings I did for some of my headphones, 

Here you can find my setting for the HD560S, HE4XX and the SHP9500. I also included the setting for Sundara 2020 I used in my previous video. Also the HD560S and HE4XX were played with exactly these settings in that video.

I had many more but the ES100 only allows to save 4 user presets, so those were the ones I used most lately, otherwise I'd need to overwrite one of them. I also had one for the LCD-1, ESP/95X, and HD800. The one for the HD800 was suprisingly similar to the one for the SHP9500 just with less boost overall. 

I don't claim that these are the ultimate settings for each of these headphones also the EQ for the Sundara is not that great as it cannot reduce the ugly peak which sits exactly in between 2 bands. But apart from the Sundara these bring the overall tonality of the given headphones quite close, at least to me, or close enough to me that I wouldn't bother and I can enjoy the sound way more with EQ than without. Of course you could fine tune any of them, but you would need a fully parametric EQ for this. 

The Q was set to 1.4142 (narrow) within Radsone's EQ control setting. These filters could also work well with some other common 1 octave 10-band EQs. I use similar values for my Shanling M1, although the resulting sound is not 100% equal.

The DT770 with some foam mod didn't require any EQ for me, as I could also "tune" treble with an off-axis placement. Also the Elex played for me just fine without any EQ, as long as it played....

I will try adding further adjustments here in case I get some interesting headphone worth being used with some EQ, but to be honest I don't care about equalizing a 1000$ headphone, as this shouldn't need any EQ to begin with, while getting really great results out of a cheap headphone like the SHP9500 just with some slight EQ adjstment is way more fun.

Still curious to hear the Empyrean, which should arrive soon...


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I just got my new microphones, it will take some time to set them up and get sure I can record properly with them. If I manage I can review anything pretty quickly

Oluv'Sone

Hi Oluv, is the DT770 video still planned? very interested to know how to smooth the treble and reduce bass.

No, as mentioned in the description the Q is fixed to 1.4, thus you can use this value and the given frequency and gain but with a parametric EQ you can adjust the values much finer of course.

Oluv'Sone

Any tips on how I can use if I can only do Parameteric EQ. I am on trial mode with Roon and I dont see how I can do this EQ with Parametric. Should I just keep the Q factor as 0?

Thank you for the EQ's. They are what we needed.

I give up. 5

In my experience, a expensive headphone does not imply a neutral profile, and therefore sometimes they also require equalization.  Maybe the difference is in how far you can take those drivers once equalized to your liking.  Some say that once the frequency response is ajusted, almost any headset can sound like the best..., It can sounds very good, sure, but I think that a good driver can make differences in the timbre and extension.  The Meze Empyrean is a very detailed and extended headphone, but with a touch of warmth.  That's their character, but to my ears they require EQ to make them sound neutral.  Once equalized I think they sounds fantastic. This is the EQ that works in my ears (I use PowerAmp: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTQlXutZ6ikDmKgDF6fl_o8d2SH7BbKd/view?usp=drivesdk  ) However, other top of the line like the Fostex TH-900 MKII sounds to me super neutral without touching a single frequency (it has a clean and very deep sub bass and great dynamics). But other experience could be a bit different.

To be honest I somehow lost interest in those it’s the same again and again. If they release something like a VIFA but better, please wake me up.

Oluv'Sone

Hey Oluv, I´d be intereseted in more BT-Box Tests. Are there any in your pipeline already?


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