hifiman he-r10d equalizer settings

[HoJ76]

Is there any eq for Hifiman he-r10d?

 

[staticV3]

You could give these settings a try (.txt attached below):


Or play around with the parameters yourself:
https://vsg.squig.link/headphones/?share=Harman_2018_Target,HIFIMAN_HE-R10D

 

[HoJ76]

Thank you very much.

 

[HoJ76]

I think that setting worked very well for r10d. Thanks, now I enjoy good sound.

 

[yazca]

This setting woks very well, Thank You

 

[BogdanR]

The R10d are a hot mess out of the box, but at CAD 204 delivered to my door for the revised 60 Ohm version I've said "what the heck..." and ordered myself a pair. They were a disappointing hot mess indeed and even after meddling with lots of EQ curves derived from the graphs above, something was still missing. Fast forward a few months and with a bit of luck I stumbled on this page on reference-audio-analyzer.pro
Frequency response comparison
Using the curves and the raw data on that site I came up with the following EQ curve, to be used on JRiver. (Please note Q factors are reversed in this software's DSP: eg. 0.5 is wide, 4 is sharp):

Global Pre-amp Gain: -8.0 dB (Mandatory to prevent Band 4 from clipping JRiver internal register)

Band	Filter Type	Frequency	Gain	Q-Factor	Notes
1	Low Shelf	35 Hz	+5.0 dB	0.71	Sub-Bass Recovery: Counters the low-end tail of the 105 Hz cut to keep the net response at +2.18 dB at 30 Hz.
2	Peak	105 Hz	-7.2 dB	0.42	Cup "Cavity" Deflator: A broad, shallow trough that spans the wide -7.19 dB plateau from 97 Hz to 111 Hz.
3	Peak	596 Hz	+4.2 dB	3.30	The Lower-Mid Resonance: The isolated structural bump, tightly bound to preserve the clean baselines at 440 Hz and 800 Hz.
4	Peak	2,550 Hz	+7.2 dB	0.71	Upper-Mid "Canyon" Fill: racks the half-gain boundaries to restore vocal presence without overshooting the treble.
5	Peak	6150 Hz	-6.0 dB	6.00	60-Ohm Resonance Killer: A razor-sharp, high-Q surgical cut that notches out the physical driver ring without darkening adjacent treble.
6	High Shelf	8,500 Hz	+2.5 dB	0.71	A bit of Air Lift: Tracks the smooth climb from the 6.4 kHz trough up to the final data point at 9.9 kHz (+4.99 dB).
7	Peak	10,000 Hz	+2.0 dB	1.80	My "step ladder" corrections matching my measured hearing loss in that region
8	Peak	11,000 Hz	+1.0 dB	0.75
9	Peak	12,000 Hz	+1.0 dB	0.75
10	Peak	14,000 Hz	+1.0 dB	0.75

Now, before anyone starts criticizing the curve above, please note everything after band 6 is absolutely subjective and applies to myself only, please feel free to disregard it. The reasons for those "sharp" corrections at 10kHz and over are simply due to my hearing loss into everything above 8 kHz. The place I work for has us measured for hearing loss every six months, that's how I know. Those corrections may sound shrill to young folk with intact hearing but for me, they bring the detail and the air back in tracks like Mike Oldfield's Sentinel (Tubular Bells II). That's high frequency detail I KNOW is there from my youth when correction there wasn't necessary.

Anyway for myself at least, this JRiver EQ curve has managed something I thought impossible after months of fiddling: it brought the R10d into my regular "rotation" and made them quite enjoyable with a large spectrum of musical content, ranging from Bach, Beethoven, Louis Armstrong or Jaques Brel to Beatles. Pink Floyd, EST, Led Zepp, Metallica or Radiohead. They became especially adept at reproducing the small studio settings in recordings like Buena Vista Social Club or the sort.

I'm actually enjoying Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else while typing all this. In case you wonder this is a 1958 recording, warts and all.

Hopefully this comment helps someone.

Cheers!