It does take a long time to be able to read a clone 711 graph well. Tuning an IEM will help drastically as it did for me. HBB has been shitting his pants about driver brands and he is not wrong at all. I look for the driver config first, next the graph, overall ear gain, the slope into it, the relative midbass to treble, etc. Lots of things… but I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I’ll say this much, belsing/no name BA are out. I dislike a few of the Knowles they use for mids but super love the new ultra-tweeters they are putting out in IEMs like the Mystic 8. I do also enjoy ED BA which I guess are kind of custom drivers that Softears uses and some Moondrops.
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Appreciate the insight into the process! I might need to just take the time then and compare what I hear with what I see in the graph.
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You won’t be able to. The reason is this iem is an earbud inside an IEM shell. Acoustics and sound impedance is entirely different from normal IEMs due to the thing being entirely non sealed from back to front including the driver. It’s an anomaly.
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My bad! I was referring to IEMs and their graphs in general. And the Anomaly is the kind of IEM I would be willing to blind buy exactly because it is so different.
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I didn’t mean to sound like that at all. Sorry, I was just trying to explain why anomaly doesn’t graph like iems and the 711 has almost no idea what is going on. Im definitely not trying to be abrasive about this. Just taking as it happens ya know.
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No worries, no apology needed. Didn’t think you were being abrasive or anything like that. Just figured I created the wrong impression.
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