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Thiele’s diffuse field is even more bullshit, and using purely measurements for defining a target is the most stupid approach IMO. I sometimes wonder if those “scientists” even listen to their own “creations”.

You need to know your ear canal resonance occurring with the affected unit and trying to recreate that response with your measuring device. But there may be offsets in the response depending on the coupler thus the measured response still won’t correspond to your perceived response. I often...

This is my final IEM target which represents "neutral" as good as possible. It sounds smoother than the HD600, etc, as upper mids and treble were tuned towards neutral speakers standing in front, no overear I know renders them correctly. I had to create an own EQ for the HD600 which I used as...

actually a dip around 8-10khz is normal with an average HRTF with the sound coming from front. A peak in this region is not normal. The IE800S has a very weird sound, I wonder how this can sound natural to you.

I have tried some EQs by Amir…

This sounds to me like: “sorry officer my Tachymeter isn’t as precise in the 80-120km/h range thus I was not even aware I drove more than 100 in an urban area…” If you cannot measure it precisely or if the measured result does not represent the perceived result, these measurements are worthless!

you are all aware that an IEM measurement with a standard coupler resonance of 8khz will not represent the sound you perceve in any way, depending on your ear canal length and the resonance you are getting? this is something which is not talked about in any paper, but actually all these...

I only had a short listen to the Clear and it sounded like a muffled Elex to me, overall similar but simply lacking that sparkle, the Utopia on the other hand sounded like a smoother Elex, still very similar but a tad rounder. Although the Utopia also had an additional peak at 6khz which is not...

Why would one want it to become the Clear if the Elex sounds like a Utopia?

the peak is visible in the other measurement posted by Mr. Olive. Could be my ear too who knows, but HD600, DT770 etc sound all normal to me, comform well with others' measurements when measured with my ears.

Here is my quick measurement of the Stealth, done with my own ears, by just playing pink noise target is Optimum Hifi, and I get a heavy 9khz peak. This is averaged over 11 different positions for the Stealth, also averaged for left and right. for comparison the Focal Elex (green) and Utopia...

Wow, finally a highend headphone I would really like to try out, after all the other “highend” priced stuff from Meze etc I heard recently. Cannot afford one though.

of course as you could also see in my video, I had them both taken apart, there was no visible issue, all wires were soldered perfectly, but the affected driver was just dead. Interestingly combining 2 drivers from 2 different units resulted in some imbalance again which I could somehow improve...

for 1 year I was the happiest owner, my very first unit was close to perfect also very consistent with left and right, and then suddenly I put it on and the right side remained mute. the day before everything was fine. As I liked it so much I begged my Drop contact to send me at least a unit...

Let me add my 2 cents. My first Elex unit broke after less than 1 year, on side suddenly failed from one moment to the other and I never really listen at high levels I never had the driver clip and never heard the issue. I got 4 replacement units since then and the 2nd one also broke within 2...

I think the challenge here is rather if something really usable can be made out of it, because for me it was just junk out of the box. But even a $3000 Meze Empyrean sounds like junk out of the box.

With Amir's EQ it sounds even worse to me. But one of my friends doesn't like my EQ either. It sounds way too thin for him like this. It seems as if on-ears were even more sensitive to the variance of the human ear. Although my EQ and the one from Sonarworks sound quite alike to me in overall...

reduced version with just 10 filters (tweaked a bit more in the meantime, I think it sounds quite nice like this): Preamp: -3 dB Filter: ON PK Fc 120 Hz Gain -9 dB Q 0.3333 Filter: ON PK Fc 1600 Hz Gain -6 dB Q 3 Filter: ON PK Fc 3650 Hz Gain -6 dB Q 5 Filter: ON PK Fc 5200.32 Hz Gain -5.6 dB...

Ok, here the final EQ, took a while and sorry that I didn't sort it, but IMO like this it sounds more natural than a K371, thus we made a 100$ headphone out of it. bass is still slightly droning, I cannot get it any cleaner. I also compared it to Sonarworks' profile and interestingly they sound...

The problem is that most look at a graph and try adjusting some filters to lower boosted areas and elevate others, but you need to listen. You need to find all peak frequencies by listening. I am currently fine tuning the EQ, I think the ZX-110 can really be made to sound quite amazing.