well at least to my ears the result is different. have you had some time with it? what are your findings?
these are my measurments. do you mind sharing yours with the Snipping Tool? iâd love to try out your adjustments!
lol i think im hearing the volume fluctuate every other second, not sure if thats because of the EQ adjustments ive made but just sounds crazy.
could something like that be a gain adjustment thing?
could be, i tend to think its more a combination of both the foam and the pads but i suppose we could guess until we are blue in the face
Donât have 'em.
Iâll say that Iâm less aggressive with EQ than a lot of folks I see on here.
I donât really like to make any software EQ shifts more than +/-5db.
I think retracting a bass shelf the way that you have is counteractive to the main positive intention this tuning went for. Iâd be more interested in giving a small adjustment up to flatten that bass dip I see consistently measured around 55hz (+1), and then maybe softening some mid-bass bloat/bleed.
I feel like with this curve youâre maintaining that upper-bass/low-mid warmth but rolling off bass frequencies significantly.
Would like to see what that curve looks like. Youâre giving +3 bumps at 1500 and 2500 along with a huge +9 spike at 2k. I believe that gives you a peak adjustment centered at 2k of nearly +13db.
I would be seeking to get this number just towards the 800/800s tuning which is maybe 6db shy in that range?
Thatâs on-paper, but from there, definitely use your ears and fine-tune to your likes.
100 percent agree. just wanted to go agressive to start with
i actually didnt know there was a bass dip there, but ill take your word for it and analyze it more closely later
could you elaborate real quick or rather specify exactly where and what value i would adjust to correct that? i had no idea it would equate to a 13 db boost, i was going for 9 but my intention was to smooth it out on the sides
Itâs the fact that because the equalization has a curve or slope to the boosted frequencies and the specified frequencies are nearer to one another, they bleed into eachother and go BEYOND your adjustment for that particular frequency. That was poorly worded, but hopefully you understand. In Peace, click on the curve tool to give you an actual visualization of the effect.
Iâd be trying starting here and tweaking by ear from there. Not addressing anything in the treble here, which I wonât delve into as Iâm doing too much for cans I donât own already.
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haha yeah. well i really really appreciate you taking out your own time for that. will try it out right away! thanks for writing, wish you a good day!
It looks like you need to adjust your âPre Amplifyingâ gain. With your current settings, youâll get digital signal clipping since youâre boosting frequencies without lowering the Pre gain. If you open the graph of your EQ setting (button below âEffectsâ and to the left of âTestâ), it will show you what your maximum gain value is. Then you want to make your Pre gain a negative value that will keep the overall gain below 0. In your case here, your maximum gain is about 12.9 db. So you want to set your âPre Amplifyingâ gain to -13.5 db or so.
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Gonna release a video with sound demos over the next couple days, comparing them against the HD800S.
You can all hear it for yourself. Spoiler alert: I like them.
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These are kind of growing on me. Best comparison I can make is that itâs like a ZMF Verite lite. It reminds me most of that headphone which is a very good thing actually! The sound has really grown on me, and Iâm now thinking that the mid gap might be less extreme than I thought before and Iâm very very very curious what the fenstrated dekoni pads could do to these.
Probably the most satisfying treble response Iâve heard on a headphone. No doubt these are a bit V shaped, but the more time I have with them the more I donât actually see how they could be different and be better EXCEPT just boosting the vocals ever so slightly. Really really curious about those pads!
If those do some kind of magic these could be endgame level for sure.
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oratory1990âs adjustment
my own amateur adjustment
Irjshabazâs on a wim adjustment
hope this can help someone, i think all of them are better than the stock tuning but thats just me, brings back some of the ââzingââ that the 800s model had.
if youâre trying my preset then just make sure to pull the gain back until the volume fluctuations are gone. if youâve come across an EQ preset or made one of your own feel free to share that.
if youâd like to be as moderate or close to the original Drop tuning as possible i can recommend Irjshabazâs preset, i enjoyed it more than my own i think and itâs not a drastic adjustment either
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And here it is! Review with sound demos 
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gosh darn hotn me totn you sound very handsome. anyhoo, did ya try out any EQ yet? i found i was able to bring out much much more clarity with Oratory1990âs EQ preset, itâs great, i donât think i want to say i got it to the clarity of the S from with the preset from what i recall from the original sound of the S because itâs been a while. but if you already own the S it really takes away the purpose of delving into that, id still recommend you go ahead and check it out if it is just for science so to speak. i found them to answer extremely well to EQ for a dynamic driver headphone
Interesting recommendation. Iâm up for trying different gear as much as my wallet allows! Hah. I donât know how reviewers do this with so much gear. I guess they have good savings or partnerships.
the EQ software popular in the community is freeware.
i went ahead and got the link for you. itâs called ââPeace EQââ and the best part, you donât have to fiddle around with it on your own and you can easily choose to have it run when the computer starts as well as the system remembering if the EQ was set to off or on the last time Peace were used, making it seamless with the rest of your audio system
i would be super interested in seeing how an EQâd 8xx stands up against the stock sound of the 800S. iâd love to see an EQ review too, just an idea. because if youâd enjoy the 8xx with the EQ preset provided above just as much as the 800s stock sound then i think youâd turn a lot of heads just because of the price proposition.
i was able to get SO much out of the 8xx just by doing a couple 10 minute adjustments and with Oratory1990âs preset all i had to do was to punch in the numbers provided anyways, his preset for the 8xx is excellent, the guy is a wizard when it comes to EQ
whats more is that Oratory1990âs presets hits the preverence curve (harman target) by 100 percent according to his PDF data if i recall correctly. And the EQ should not have any impact on the quality of the driver what so ever as long as the drivers are flexible with EQ to start with and that the EQ sofware donât apply any filters of any kind, which Peace do not, if anything i was able to get much much more clarity out of the 8xx drivers, both vocally and instrumentally, Peace is just a really powerful tool. really interested to hear what you think!
thanks for writing and i hope you try it out!
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I would like to do a EQ video. Iâll probably see about making adjustments work using the Schiit Lokius EQ.
Thank you for the kind words of support 
And I am flattered my voice sounds handsome! Hah!
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im probably just reiterating what you already know but the problem that arises with the Loki is that you are restrained to the folowing bands: 20Hz, 400Hz, 2kHz and 8kHz.
furthermore you have no options what so ever to tune the ââEQ agressionââ of those bands other than just the EQ ââvolumeââ itself, at least i do not believe so.
however Peace does that and imo itâs vital to get the tuning right for any given adjustment made to a headphone but iâm sure the 2kHz band on the Loki would help the 8xx, but the tamber youâll get out of any adjustment made with the Loki is going to be hit or miss compared to Peace which is much easier to keep the tamber right throughout any adjustment.
iâm pretty sure my terminology is off but thats that, im far from an expert, FAR, just wanted to make that clear, itâs a slider called ââqualityââ in peace and does things thats far beyond my understanding, i just know it affects the tamber considerably depending on the headphone and the ââqualityââ value that is being set
iâm sure itâs a nice piece of hardware but it has itâs limits, compared to Peace, i suppose the reason youâd want to get a Loki in the first place is the experience of having something physical just like with any other piece of gear, itâs fun to have something physical, further more is also that it is ofcourse very much simplified, just down to 4-5 knobs compared to Peaceâs infinite adjustability, whats so great about Peace is that you donât really need to fiddle with sliders and numbers all over the place because that job is already done by people in the community, notably Oratory1990 which has a concrete list on every headphone he has EQâd for, unless you want complexity and depth which Loki as an EQ unit doesnt have anyways. But yeah, itâs totally worth a shot to see where you can get with it, in short, Peace is definitely a step up both in quality and adjustability
anyhoo, i suppose on a general level the Loki makes EQ more accessible to more people, which is nice, it just isnt able to finetune or tackle certain problem areas like Peace would be able to. IMO, a Loki is more of a toy than an actual EQ tool. See where it takes you, good luck!
yes, very handsome. mlem
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iâd be interested to hear about how youâd feel about a 2kHz adjustment on the Loki with the 8xx if you do decide to try it out though, for sure
Yea a total system EQ would be ideal, especially if it has more control over the frequency response at any custom point to create adjustments.
The Lokius having only so many bands at discrete points means for limits in what control we can have with it.
I suppose though I would indeed Iike to strike the balance of audiences and try it with the simple dials on the table
Perhaps itâll get the attention of those of the system EQ-willing crowd, as well as the rest of desktop headphone buyers who may be more interested in the Lokiusâs easy to approach EQ.
I would do a EQ video yea, particularly if the results of tweaking are interesting.