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Sure. i don't want to conflate noise and distortion. on the topic of distortion, not all distortion sounds the same. measuring focal headphones drivers from last generation i believe have great dynamics that almost everyone who reviewed them had praises to sing despite the soundstage being...

I can see the harmonics even in the single 1Khz tone at 2k 3k etc and the noise at around 90db or so which i would consider the real distortion of this product if i have to rely on multi-tone and single tone SINAD graph for a product. If the analyzer can be set to another mode and it ignores the...

How can one tell if there is random distortion vs intentional harmonics being added. If the SNR is 65db shouldn't everyone who uses it hear distortion within the 12w power to sensitive speakers none the less.

These speakers have bad directivity so the reflected sounds change the timbre depending on the genre. anything that is not warm in tuning can sound bright in reflective rooms. I have experience listening as desktop speakers and also in medium size rooms from 6-10ft away. Ended up applying eq on...

Not sure about the Zero but the Zero: Red does have some variations with tip rolling. https://global.discourse-cdn.com/business6/uploads/headphones/original/3X/9/7/97c402f2dab396ee462adcb06010500fc3ededd0.jpeg

There is barely any difference in the tuning except for the sub bass boost in the balanced tuning. Crinacle's ief doesn't even have a subbass shelf as indicated in the graph. People just leave the <150hz of the default tuning. Even if you autoeq it to the Harman ie 2019 curve like what Amir...

Its good as a desktop dac but the bass can be tighter with a desktop style dac. maybe the rose technics RT5000 which i hear has a similar midrange as mojo 2 but is better overall at this pricepoint. all this is subjective so i guess you won't lose much with the mojo2 which can be carried along...

interesting. The way its portrayed here is that the users were allowed to adjust below the ridiculous 12db or so treble boost. Also, my understanding is that most users prefer different bass levels +3 to + 6 db below 200Hz and very few prefer a variation of slightly lower 5-6k i.e 1-2db below OE...

they actually do test a lot of iems. maybe not nearly enough as other independent reviewers. not very diverse imo, they could do a lot better. its in their forum. they're just bad at including these in the reviews section of their website. anyhow The video talks about how iem's bypass the pinna...

apparently the IE study didn't let them adjust treble preferences to begin with. Sean olive mentioned a while ago that they are developing a new target for iem's. I was hoping this would clear out the 2019 IE curve once and for all and we'll know if the IEF curve is neutral for most listeners...

I recommend watching the video. yes i do use squigly measurements to create eq profiles and AB between them with different genres. but i do prefer different eq profiles for different iem's. for orchestra lite that has 8 BA's i prefer the default eq i.e given the slump at 2.5-7k. The treble is...

awesome. i've heard some good things about this iem. sad to see the the bass shelf so low. it follows the IEF target. maybe its time for crinacle to add a bass shelf into the target. personally i tune all my iem's to IEF leaving out the <200 Hz filters. I always avoid the 4k-6k boost in treble...

As the lightning port lived on. you have to cater your long term users to increase trust in the brand. primarily the profit margins are higher if you can design something that outperforms the competition with minimal expenses in re-tooling ensuring long term profit without a hit to the consumer...

DJ is awesome. You have to click the DJ button to change the genre/mood (i can't tell the diff). many times it plays the same exact songs you listened to in the week or month but thats only to get you aquainted. I am still waiting for them to make the move to the promised uncompressed audio. Its...

thanks for the review. given how the sales of records have boomed in recent years, phono measurements are welcome. although i don't want to put my money where my mouth is and go away from digital

sure. i'm not considering opinions with the same merit but i am not dismissing all of them also to keep an open mind. NYT opinion article is not the same as investigative journalism. But then again i'm not without reasoning skills to know when comapnies are colluding with the government in a...

can you explain on what it means to have different measuring DAC's taking 10 DAC's from similar price point in the same model year. Any specific measurement would do like a distortion metric above threshold of hearing that all those 10 DAC's passed have similar sonic performance?. sean olive...

at the end of the day you don't hear measurements. if it makes you happier then be it. the gold standard of scientific method is randomized controlled trial which in medicine tests against a placebo and not its competitor because we get better evidence with a placebo wrt biases in judgement and...