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  1. ZolaIII

    Sennheiser HD 490 Pro Headphone Review

    What good is that to anyone? You charge angle by a little bit in a same room and phase changes and how they sum with it and it sounds very different. Key word is room correction (and treatment to extent) and how much you would be able to do with lots of effort is determined by objective...
  2. ZolaIII

    Sennheiser HD 490 Pro Headphone Review

    Joint stereo, mono mix down, pseudo stereo... Mp3 and pretty much everyone did not even knowing about it. It's even worse regarding bad mixes with separated on only one chenel instrument or even worse vocals when listening on devices with full physical separation as headphones/earphones...
  3. ZolaIII

    Sennheiser HD 490 Pro Headphone Review

    Listening is subjective to; subject, it's bias, room, placement... measurements are not. No one does stereo measurements for speakers nor it ever will as simple phase shift impacts everything. I thought you have at least some objective objection, obviously that's not a case. Reed and read a lot...
  4. ZolaIII

    Sennheiser HD 490 Pro Headphone Review

    You put a single speaker on measurement rig and it measure it and afterwards as you have one placed you listen to that single one in mono. You put headphones/earphones on HATS and it does measurements and later you put same on your head and listen to them. Subjective part (listening and rant...
  5. ZolaIII

    Sennheiser HD 490 Pro Headphone Review

    To which so called bass boost should be equal loudness compensation and nothing more. Even that they did wrong regarding transition delta and impact above it or simply said they did tone controls bad. When you do comparation to in room measured speakers you come to this conclusion. Somehow...
  6. ZolaIII

    Shelf EQ With Zero Gain

    It's low self adjustment filters to your liking for bass with 100 Hz transition filter towards Butterwort model with Q of 0.71 and it translates decently influence reaching all the way up to almost 500 Hz. Or to the equal loudness contour to SPL if you wish.
  7. ZolaIII

    Any reason to buy a DAC if you have an Apple USB-C dongle?

    It really depends what you are driving and how much power/voltage it needs. This is general comparation with all portable gear in representive CS43131 unbalanced form (2V) and E1DA as balanced one. The anaemic and dirty cheap EU Apple A2155 USB C wins hands down when it comes to high sensitive...
  8. ZolaIII

    Elac Debut Reference DBR-62 Speaker Review

    We call them what-a-hell. Stay on DBR62's and try with Yamaha A-S 501 or Yamaha A-S 701/801. If you can find second hand not used much A-S/R-S 700 even better. Also try to find old stock of R-N 803/803D.
  9. ZolaIII

    Which flagship headphone has fantastic soundstage/imaging und bass?

    After a long time I started using a very old Sonitus surround (planner, doppler and attention) direct show plugin and for movie's only. To my view it still works better than anything else including Creative DSP virtual surround which is amongst better in industry.
  10. ZolaIII

    Need help expanding my 2.1 system into 2.2

    @Megumin a key to perceived balanced bass is equal loudness compensation which by the way is not easy to integrate (at all) properly. Some of Denon AVR's, Yamaha amplifiers and R.M.E. interfaces (and DAC's have it). MiniDSP entire lineup lacks it and quality of filters is far from best (not to...
  11. ZolaIII

    Will Belden 1696A work with my headphones ?

    OK, insulation inside is PE. Not good anyway for tined coper and all together probably stiff.
  12. ZolaIII

    Will Belden 1696A work with my headphones ?

    Well they state PE - Polyethylene (Foam). @Nkam just as example and neither for balanced nor mini XLR nor you told TRS pool's or diameter. https://www.qed.co.uk/qed-performance-j2p-cable.html Try to see which Beyerdynamic stock mini XLR one's are good if you want that on solderdudes blog.
  13. ZolaIII

    Will Belden 1696A work with my headphones ?

    I wouldn't go with tined coper one but OFC instead for better flexibility (retaining oxidation properties).
  14. ZolaIII

    Will Belden 1696A work with my headphones ?

    PE is similar to rubber; soft, nice on touch, actually better and less microphonic and with very good endurance (depending on which one is used). Rating goes from PE10 to PE30+ (years). Sony use PE10 for it's cable's (headphone, USB...) for a long time now (about 20 years) and for headphone...
  15. ZolaIII

    unbalanced vs balanced with lots of volume attenuation

    No and not really, that amplifier has three gain settings and you use it accordingly to SPL of headphones per V, mW to impedance load. Analog pots are never a very good solution even in this case there is little variation between measured samples (Amir/Wolf) and little of imbalance between...
  16. ZolaIII

    1 foot solid silver conductor interconnect vs. 0.5 foot Mogami W2964 interconnect

    All set aside, modern jewelry and so silver is really a bad choice for it's oxidation properties. Now there are even Graphen cables and that's another nonsense other than looks. Good old OFC (for oxidation properties not conductivity) in graphite (EMI shilling, price...) TP-E (up to 30+ years...
  17. ZolaIII

    Where can I download good quality music for free?

    Part of it; got lost, demaged, stolen... had most of it digitalis and then again I lost server (HDD). Anyway it's not that simple, it never is. Imagine world get striped out of classical music from old composers because some troll supposedly menages to get copyright for it somehow. I think wars...
  18. ZolaIII

    Where can I download good quality music for free?

    Not torrents, specialised site's but I won't go into how to use them and there is a catch to it. If you expect me to pay for materials that I already owned (on different physical media) from authors that aren't with us for a long time now which I also consider as national cultural heritage to a...
  19. ZolaIII

    New Sennheiser HD490 Pro

    I have bilt up preference (that's similar to yours) and good tuned main speaker sistem as a guide line. There is even more to then what you already mentioned like equal loudness compensation but as I don't have HATS to play around such things this is enough for me. Regarding how far we menaged...
  20. ZolaIII

    New Sennheiser HD490 Pro

    @solderdudeI It seems average for both other ear and ear chenel is somewhere in between BK5128 which in highs is bright to almost any ear model, has a little less bass and GRAS 43AG-7 used originally for Harman over ear 2018 which is too small regarding ear models and a bit recessed in highs...
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