🔶 7HZ Timeless Planar

[I0000days]

Thanks for the response but ignore my previous comment. It wasn’t the tips, the seal, nor am I a basshead, quite the contrary, I prefer dead neutral tuning to anything else. So, apparently my current source (an ibasso dc-03) broke and now lower frequencies are lacking regardless of which headphones I plug in.
I was afraid that something is wrong with my Timeless, but they’re bassy and sweet on all my other sources. Phew.

[D1visor]

Good to hear.

[Ohmboy]

Timeless = tip dependent…get that sorted…add hybrid tubes = stupid fun set for my library for the

You Used To Love To Dance

[ttorbic]

Yeah I think the S12 will be tip dependent too, at least for my ears. Going to try a narrower bore!

[Ohmboy]

@ttorbic

Going to try a narrower bore!

My fav “balanced” tips are Sony EPEX10AB’s hard to come by in the UK…“Narrow” then Final E’s

[Fixxxer]

@nymz I’ve just got my xinhs 4 core graphene. You were right… amazing cable! Thank you.

[John_W_Clark]

I like it a lot, I do switch around between the stock cable, which I like, the Xinhs 4 core graphene, and the Tripowin Altea.

I still think the Tripowin Zonie is my goto replacement cable, silver plated copper, under $20, really flexible, good sound, available in all standard ends and connectors.

[nymz]

Thanks for the trust. I love that cable and Xinhs always does a great job

[Ohmboy]

@Fixxxer

I’ve just got my xinhs 4 core graphene

Aye tidy cable that

[Erokh]

I tried this eq yesterday, and it didn’t work for me. I don’t understand why you would tame the 2k region.

I used it as a base, though, and ended up with just a negative bass shelf that is a promising start.

[I0000days]

This is my final EQ for the TImeless. It’s a bass boosted Sundara kind of sound, they’re godlike.

[S_Coon]

I apologize if I’m intruding, since you didn’t ask me. The lowering at 2k serves primarily to shift the pinna gain region to the right and secondarily helps shape the 4k boost. A possible negative being thinner male vocals when compared to stock tuning, but that could depend on your personal preference.

[Oummfff]

Glad you’ve found something that works for you. You should post your EQ software and numerical values though, some could test it too and who knows probably like it. Cheers.

[Erokh]

I don’t mind at all. On the contrary: having some explanation being the tuning helps understand it

[I0000days]

I need some assistance. So, this is my first low impedance + high sensitivity IEM, I don’t know if it’s normal. Whenever I connect the Timeless to an audio device that is plugged in, there is background sound playing constantly (a low tone - 100hz-ish). Initially I thought it’s just my PC’s USB connectors, interference, ground loop, etc, but now I’m starting to think it’s a faulty cable. Any ideas?

[lilhm]

Are you talking about the timeless? For an IEM it is not really super efficient/sensitive (don’t rely on the numbers/specs). I have the problem you described quite often with more sensitive IEMs (in which cases it is source dependent). The timeless didn’t have this problem yet.

Just to make sure I understand correctly: You connect the timeless to e.g. your smartphone and there is no noise, but once you connect that same smartphone via usb to your PC, you get noise?

In that case almost certainly you have got a ground loop. Welcome to the club! You can try to run a GPU benchmark for fun and see if the frequency of the noise changes in accordance with the FPS… lot’s of fun.

[I0000days]

Correct. The Timeless makes this low tone/buzz when connected to any plugged device, while my Blon BL-03 and Tin T3 Plus don’t have this problem. I will try the GPU benchmark test soon!

Do you think the iFi Ear Buddy fix this? I’ve read that it will fix hiss in IEM but I’m not so sure about ground loop.

[lilhm]

Ground loops can be nasty. The short version is: There are 100 solutions starting from “use a different outlet” to “buy expensive equipment” and all of them may or may not work depending on your situation. And even if they do work, they may have an impact on the sound. Just make sure you don’t die while attempting to mess with your devices ground connections (strongly not recommended).

Other IEMs not having the problem kinda contradicts the ground loop hypothesis however. No clue… would still do the GPU test (e.g. Heaven Benchmark)

[I0000days]

Woah, I’ve fixed it. It was ground loop. I just plugged in my PC in a grounded socket (which I didn’t knew that I have in my apartment until now). Heh, the more you know!!

[CTOXmas]

I wish my solution was so easy my entire appt shares the same ground so I have a pretty crazy setup to make it bearable on most amps lol