Iem is actually fine. A lot of people love it. In my opinion, it needs a lot of power to show its claws. It’s a nice iem to have around, but I wouldnt rec it just for the sake of with my preferences.
Keep in mind a lot of people loving that set, so you might wanna try it. Keep also in mind it’s an ultra budget set, so don’t expect high res.
DHL Master race. I’ve gotten 2 work days from them in EU, lol… They insane…
Seems like project eclipse is a Fiio FH3 retuned aka FHE. Priced at 150 usd.
Not gonna lie, went from hype to cringe real fast…
Edit: Graph (normalized @ 500hz)
Agreed, I first thought that teaser was a troll post. Only after rewatching 3-4 times, I had to accept that was for real.
I was really expecting SeeAudio…
Well, guess SeeAudio is revealing a colab then 
Nothing wrong with the FH3 - good for my library (you know library is everything) and ears 
Plenty of other things on my radar though, so nope it’s still a pass.
FH3 doesn’t fit my library very well, but the main reason I sold it was due to it’s timbre and incoherency. It kinda throw me off after I noticed it.
It got nice stage and bass, tho. This seems an “improved” version, time will tell. Just hope Fiio isn’t promoting it as “better cable and tips again”…
I’ve tried a few of Crin’s AutoEQ presets and they’re not in my ball park… I’d rather prefer oratory1990’s then tweak them a bit for my taste.
Guess it’s a pass!
Aren’t those just machine matched to harman using his measurements? He has no finger in it.
I have no clue if he’s using the Harman target… If he is, then Harman’s clearly not for me.
I just checked. AutoEQ and Oratory are both tuned to Harman, if I’m not mistaken.
Oratory is, 100%.
ngl my ears(/brain) are nowhere near good enough to really notice incoherency much (plus any metallic/plasticky BA timbre is largely lost with my library 
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Thanks for the info lol, now I’m more confused than ever
That said, there should be the tuner factor if both are targeted at Harman but are sonically different.
I guess a lot of people won’t like “all-Harman tuning.”
Yeah, there will be differences, I dunno. I usually avoid EQ, due to porta-fi aswell. I have an Inbound Qudelix5k, so let’s see how I find it 
Harman study was a great idea… done the wrong way
Yeah, I wish. That’s the main reason I’m avoiding B2, even tho I knew I’d love the tuning
In my opinion, B2 is a benchmark for inconsistency.
I know EQ is a big debate for IEMs, but I contain my settings below +/- 3db so it should be fine. Saw a -7db dip in one of the AutoEQ presets but it was at 16k range, shouldn’t do any harm there.
The only IEMs I have EQ on are QKZ VK4 and Variations (very slight, under 2db for that mid scoop).
Well yes and no. By his own words:
" For In-Ear headphones I also use Sean Olive’s latest results, dubbed the „Harman In-the-Ear Target 1“, as published 2017. I am not fully convinced of this target however, and have a personal opinion that there might be a better-suited target for in-ear headphones. It’s mostly subjective, but is backed by small-scale studies (not published). I’m calling it the „oratory1990 target“. It’s what I personally think sounds best in non-lab conditions , and if you don’t like it that’s fine."
My understanding is that he uses (one of) the harman target(s) as a base, but modified it a bit.
Also note that AutoEQ isn’t as straight-forward as “harman target”. Oratorys presets are done manually by autoeqing a headphone to his response (he has his own tools… he doesn’t use autoeq) as a first step, but then doing most of the equing by ear based on the generated setting.
AutoEq in contrast just fits an FR to the target, which in pretty much all cases results in a suboptimal setting. (AutoEq can do a loooot more than that btw if you want to get into it). It doesn’t take into considerations strengths/weaknesses of an IEM and not every IEM responds to the same change equally. Worst case you get terrible distortions, defeating the purpose of equing to a large extent.
I am somewhat of a noob when it comes to equing, but spend a lot of time during the last weeks on experimenting with it… especially with generated eq settings (as a software engineer). I started by having the same idea as autoeq (before I knew of its existence) and since came to learn about many of the issues that approach has.
