solderdude
Grand Contributor
you couldn't fit the necessary amplification for Dan Clark's Aeon in the cup, you need much more efficient transducers for this task, so probably not the right example?
Indeed, certainly not when you also want the battery to last at least 8 hours... that battery has to fit in there also.
Highend DAC chip, DSP at 96/24 and wifi receiver would also have to be fed.
There is of course the BT Ananda.
Well right now we have been discussing the question of whether EQ is near mandatory for headphone listening. Every review has come with a recommended EQ setting and we discover entire existing databases of EQ settings. Some are recommended only with EQ. Anyone buying into that ecosystem will see the mooted Æon DSP as coming with zero additional cost over any other headphone. You just use the vendor provided EQ settings in exactly the same manner as you use settings for any other HP. The difference only being that the designer of the HP knows that they are freed from any requirement that the HP work without EQ. They don't need to craft in the HRTF, or indeed craft in other tweaks that can be reasonably better managed with EQ.
I would argue that a regime where HPs are designed to work both with and without EQ is simply intrinsically compromised.
There is of course the question of which EQ. Using EQ/DSP based on who's measurements ? When comparing EQ generated by various sources they all differ. It's not that only one of them is correct.. they all are kind-of correct.
Easier to just leave the EQ up to the owner... they can decide which they prefer.