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as much as I respect Crinacle and his expertise I believe brands are starting to realize they can capitalize more by featuring with him. The recent few collaborations have been nice but a tad overhyped.
as much as I respect Crinacle and his expertise I believe brands are starting to realize they can capitalize more by featuring with him. The recent few collaborations have been nice but a tad overhyped.
Do we even need subwoofer in iem? Is it really that hard to get flat into sub bass with iem, which by design is to fit into our ear canal? I don't know much about iem but can't imagine iem will has less sub bass then over ear headphone.
Do we even need subwoofer in iem? Is it really that hard to get flat into sub bass with iem, which by design is to fit into our ear canal? I don't know much about iem but can't imagine iem will has less sub bass then over ear headphone.
I also thought too much hype to have a dedicated bass driver in an IEM. Even a single DD already reaches 20 Hz with elevated bass, like the Chu for 20 usd. Sure, it does not follow Harman IEM curve but I think they could if they wanted to, it is not the lack of dedicated bass driver that is holding them back.
SMPTE measurements made by @Earfonia of some single DD IEMs also don't indicate a need for a dedicated bass driver.
The single DD BL-05 for example plays 60Hz and 7kHz just fine:
It's not that IEMs cannot reach 20hz efficiently it's that in my personal experience most IEMs usually cannot deliver strong impact around that frequency range.
Like think of something like Audeze LCD2, the bass slaps hard, in comparison even some good "basshead" IEMs like Empire Ears Legend X are just lackluster, even though Legend X already have tons of bass.
DDs are inherently tiny cone speakers that don’t have to worry about beaming. The same laws of physics apply to DDs as home audio drivers (with the exception of beaming). Most of the limitations of single DD IEMs v. BA IEMs I’ve heard could be addressed by using multiple DDs optimized for different sections of the frequency range.
That’s where I have to stop making blanket statements unless I want to risk making statements I can’t say are absolutely true. I would be very interested to see someone with more knowledge than I posses expand on this subject. But I can’t see how using at least 2 or 3 properly designed and implemented/crossed over DDs wouldn’t be superior multi BA sets.