BIG UPDATE TO MY SQUIG!
THERE IS A PEQ FUNCTION NOW!!!
(there might be bugs, please report them if you find any.)
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Used that function to make some fun EQ profiles like Arya > HD8XX. Didn’t have the time to listen to it yet.
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Thanks for sharing the screenshot! I couldn’t find it in the 20 sec I spent on his squig
This is a game changer. Exports! Imports! AutoEQ!
Equalizer is available on the following Squigs so far:
RikudouGoku
Precogivision
Super*Review
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I have been doing the same manually (and programmatically) since a long time. But having the function directly on squiglink makes everything a whole lot easier.
Pretty cool!
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That EQ things brings a question to me: with that theoritical lines, you determine the compensations to apply. But you never know if the iem will effectively follow these compensations, right? (Or you have to measure the iem post-EQ)
It really interests me: a great experiment will be EQing the timeless to tea FR…
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Exactly, this is the same as the EQ function in REW, its only a simulated response.
This is why you should start by following the values you get on squig and then use your ears to check it.
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I haven’t done that exact experiment, but many, many like it. From my experience I would guess the timeless will sound very different from the Tea. But a fair question would be: will the Timeless sound better or worse to you with a Tea-like EQ?
These kind of EQ IEM conversions have to be taken with a grain of salt, but have great utility imho, when e.g. you only heared a few IEMs and want to get a rough idea of how other IEMs sound.
Most IEM don’t take well to excessive EQ like that however. People keep saying planars are good for that kind of thing and I can’t disagree. But to my surprise the Blessing 2 is one non-planar IEM that took my EQ torture pretty well. U12t and Mest Mk2 have pretty piss poor results in that regard in my experience. I have been wondering ever since if there is some magic EQ sauce in the Blessing/SoftEar BAs ever since.
It wont work like that, as they got a completely different driver setup. So even if you EQ one to the other matching it completely by FR, it will still sound different.
Depends, I have messed around with PEQ a lot and different transducers do respond to it differently well.
Planars are the best and can handle a lot of boosting, DDs are also pretty good. BAs are the types I think respond the worst though.
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I am wondering if multi-BA setups have a EQ-coherency problem, because maybe the different drivers respond differently to the EQ. That is at least my impression (but could have a different reason).
Could be, although I havent found them being different from single BAs. But I do have a limited experience with BAs overall so…
I’ve been enjoying my BL-05 with RSV PEQ for a few weeks now.
I mainly use it to get an idea of the tuning but don’t think that the PEQed IEM sounds exactly like the real deal.
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Anyone have the Qian39 and want to improve it?
Take a piece of micropore tape and tape the vent on one side of the shell.
Specifically, on the L shell, tape the left side vents and on the R shell, tape the right side vents.
This is the result of that
micropore taped “outside” vent:
- more textured-bass
- tech boost (resolution, separation)
- reduced mid-bass and sub-bass
or if you tape the vents on the other side, you get this.
micropore taped “inside” vent:
+more sub-bass
+tech boost (resolution, separation)
- cleaner
- smaller stage
- less air
I prefer the first “outside” vent mod, its quite the jump in tech from stock.
(taping both sides just makes it sound bloated and honky.)
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Any recs on an easy to drive mmcx bud? Thinking of trying to connect one to my UTWS3
Mmcx buds are already rare enough as it is. So you don’t have much choice besides that…
The Yincrow RW-2000 and the Smabat M2S Pro are the best mmcx buds i known from a branded buds perspective.
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Can vouch for the M2S Pro being rock solid and easy to drive. It even has interchangeable drivers!
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Penon makes MMcx buds. Check out their website
So, I heard you guys like holographic staging right? Well, so do I and I went and took out the Shuoer EJ07M which is well known for its holographicness and compared it to another iem that AFAIK isn’t as well knowns as its brothers, the Sony XBA-Z5.
Who won? If you guessed the EJ07M, you were wrong…big time actually. The stage on the Z5 when I went from it to the EJ07M, made the EJ07M sound small. The Z5 is beating the EJ07M in stage depth (not a lot in this aspect but still a win) but mostly in the stage width and air, it’s a lot bigger overall than the EJ07M.
However, where the EJ07M wins regarding the stage, is in the quality, the imaging. And that difference is essentially as big as the stage difference. This is in big part due to the bass shelf difference between them, where the Z5 is more bloated compared to the cleaner bass shelf on the EJ07M. So I went and tried this PEQ on the Z5 to even out the playing field:
Peak: 150hz, Q: 0.4, gain: -5.4db
With this, simulating the bass shelf of the EJ07M on the Z5, the imaging gap got closer by a lot. But the EJ07M still has the edge in imaging. This did make the stage on the Z5 even wider though, but it lost a lot of the depth and the holographicness it had in stock.
So in conclusion, if you want an iem with holographic stage and depth. The XBA-Z5 is the best I heard and beats the EJ07M in that regard pretty badly.
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True, but they aint a company I will support either with how they treated me.
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