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Then-Effective5434 OP t1_itr2ze6 wrote

Reply to comment by SupOrSalad in Sincere question: does technicalities exist, or everything what matters is FR graph? by Then-Effective5434

Very interesting, 2 models of the same headphone have different FR, I heard about this, but isn't it so small, that one person can't distinguish by his ears? About pads and comfort I agree, all this affect Frequency Response, but for example we have Focal open-back headphones that already have so much similarities between each other, can you take Clear pads(housing is basically 99.9% the same) and use some EQ to get actually sound like Clear? With this I don't know <0.1% of difference that can be even between two models of the same headphone

Btw, what about IEMs? Here fit, comfort and eartips usually are very close to be the same

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Egoexpo t1_itr6e5w wrote

>2 models of the same headphone have different FR, I heard about this, but isn't it so small, that one person can't distinguish by his ears?

Yes, but this is difficult.

>what about IEMs?

In the IEM world this is more easy, you can EQ a 7Hz Salnotes Zero to be really similar to a Thieaudio Monarch MKII or a UM Mest MKII (I tested both IEMs, it's not the same because of the differences in your own ear, but it's very similar), yes. In the headphone world, because of the pinna interaction, it is very difficult to make one headphone sound similar to another headphone.

You can improve the EQ using a sine sweep, this can improve things like "imaging" or "detail" because you are reducing some peaks and dips that happen with ear interaction, this makes the headphones clearer without auditory masking or "veils", but it's very boring to do the process.

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Then-Effective5434 OP t1_itr774b wrote

Thank you for explaining about IEMs, because there are some IEMs that I am interested in and would like to use EQ to try their frequency response with my Variations. I can do this easily by software on my Mac, or do I need Quedelix 5K with it's parametric EQ?

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Egoexpo t1_itr81xb wrote

I don't know, sorry, I don't use Mac. A Qudelix is ​​a very good thing, I recommend it.

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