I’ve chatted with my bud about this for awhile. It’s a thing… the damn iem triggers the Vagus nerve somehow and it feels like getting motion sickness.
To be clear this not good. I have to fix it.
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Reminds me of Bhramari (Humming Meditation) which through vibration also stimulates the vagus nerve, but this usually leads to relaxation and not to sickness…there must be a lot going on with your Anomaly 
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But what about the hardliners???
Maybe add a puke switch™!? 
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LOL, the puke factor is over the top, im having some people give me impressions but it is what it is… too much.
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Too bad, i would have loved to experience that 
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Bruddah noooo keep the 3D maxed. People who are having trouble, let them pop some
motion sickness tablets 
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Yeah i thought the same, maybe two versions even
It did not seem too much for you @shortbus , so it won’t be too much for a few others 
Rollercoasters are also not for everyone but the ones who love it enjoy it to the max
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The people that heard it nick named it the Vomitron 3000… YMMV I can easily do the tuning. But to what end?!
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That would be a hilarious name from a marketing perspective.
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This tuning right here:
Wow… I am very much in love. It’s like Etymotic with actual amazing 3D and swirly stage. I’ll give it a bit more time and try more music that isn’t easy to play. Even if can’t do those genres, well mixed music is super super good. Female vocals have ‘toxicity’ as chifi likes to say. Super nice edge to the high parts of notes, much like the new Knowles super tweeters or maybe even Sonion EST. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but thats how I hear it.
Also there is no puke factor fwiw. It’s just super nice and wide and diffuse like earbuds or open back cans.
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Glad to hear that the adjustments you had to make didn’t lessen your enthusiasm for the set!
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I’ve been adjusting things a little as usually, but the tuning and shell acoustics are 98% perfect. The refinement is mostly in the treble for this graph. No smoothing of course:
Likely I’m going to try and flatten the bass shelf which is very hard since this is open back… so I’ve been thinking about how tf to do that BUT… the treble is whoaaaaaaa good. For folks that are like where is my over 10k energy, I swear to god 711 couplers cannot read DDs correctly in that area. There is certainly not a -15db dip right after 10k. If i do a ton of tips and an average im closer to -5db to about 12k which is acceptable imo.
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That’s one of the reasons I always enjoy watching your reviews. You always focus on what it sounds like, not just what it graphs like. The fact that you, Zeos and HBB all liked the Softears Twilight made me blind buy it (and never regretted doing so).
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Bro, graphs only give you a rough approximation. I’ve been in talks with Sonion to get some drivers. They are amazing in terms of support but told me companies that buy their drivers are a huge pain in the butt since they constantly tell them their drivers are broken because their stupid 711 clone couplers don’t show this or that correctly. I basically said its MY job to figure this out, not Sonion. I don’t even care that much what the graph looks like… I use my (not) golden ears.
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That is rather hilarious and sad at the same time. The fact that the companies manufacturing the actual IEMs complain about the measurements being off instead of listening is whack. I get they want to measure the drivers as part of assessing the quality of the (final) product but come on, it’s something that people are supposed to listen to. Just listening also helps to find what works and doesn’t work for oneself. I’ve noticed that sets people call (or could call) shouty or energetic sound just fine to me for instance.
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The hard truth is that graphs matter drastically right now in terms of sales. People wanna see a certain thing and if they don’t the IEM is crap etc.
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To the extent that people live somewhere where there aren’t any opportunities to demo anything, I can understand a graph gives you some sort of impression. But dismissing something solely because it doesn’t graph ‘right’ is, well, 
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I fully understand and you are correct. You can’t listen to everything so a graph is all you can get. Maybe one day clone couplers will be better and show more correct treble over 10k.
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Or, better yet, there will be more points of sale for demoing stuff. Over here (mainland Europe), most chifi brands are not represented (or only for sale in one particular country), which is annoying to put it mildly. And personally, I feel I have graph-lexia in that I simply cannot fathom what to expect based on a graph.
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