Shortbus Audio Anomaly (and more possibly)

IEMs / Other In-Ear Monitors (IEM)
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I did try the Zenith set. It was ‘fine’ bordering on good. I have an extreme anti KZ bias and probably can’t overcome it. I wasted way way too much money in the early days when they were making the first cheap multi-ba sets. I also do not like how they have like 80 models for sale… clearly they are not doing a lot of R and D and I can’t deal.

As far as the bypass vent, it actually doesn’t affect treble, only lows. I can either use it as just a vent or a tuning thing.

I did manage to finally match the DM itself and then added a bit more subs due to my tuning features.
DM in Purple, im in Brown.

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Max bass.

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Now it’s time to repeat this tuning.

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Tigerism Dragon way-too-long review.

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Further Refinements. I’m pretty happy with this overall, AND it was super super easy to build (thank god).

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Graph name goes hard

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oops… sorry bout that, I was getting very frustrated for a bit and left the name

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Nah, leave it lmao the graph looks killer btw

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I thought some of your earlier IEM names was pretty hilarious, but this one is going to get a parental advisory stamp for sure :rofl::rofl:

Edit: And the graph looks great :eyes:

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Looking better and better :fire:

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Lets guess what is happening here:
Given: one iem, one tip, no change to anything on the 711, it stays put, only one change in what i’m doing

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Change to source output impedance

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Not changing source at all, only one thing.

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Blocking a vent on the shell or maybe the filter behind the driver?

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No changes to the iem physically, nothing whatsoever.

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I’m just changing volume. Crazy… this is why this is a freaking Anomaly.

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Damn built in equal loudness compensation (like what apple does I think with their airpods) in a wired iem??

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Yes but tbh it does the opposite of what it should. the forward pinna graph is loud, nice pinna, low volume

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Unexpected!

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Good catch, now try to reverse that, lol.
I think we’d be in for some more surprises if folks started to graph IEMs at different input/output levels.

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Thing is i’ve done this before. I have never found an IEM that actually measures differently at different volumes. I was just messing around graphing stuff and accidentially set my volume super low… realized the graph wasn’t the same.

I got work to do now to fix this.

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And this is with a really low output impedance on the source? Do you have a freq vs impedance curve for the headphones? Would be interesting to see