bagwell359
Headphoneus Supremus
If the bass shelf maxes out at 4 db at 30 Hz, and you have suitable amp, and you listen at reasonable levels than it works. But if you go say 7.5 db and run loud esp on bass heavy tracks you are courting IM distortion throughout the audible range and also HD in the bass.I just use a bass shelf to bring the whole low end up a few dB, but with a similar little drop at ~200Hz to give the bass some shape and separation. I mostly leave the mids alone since that's the whole reason these headphones exist. Having said that, I do still kick them up a smidge at ~2k and bring them down juuuust a hair at ~3.2k.
I'm curious if pads might add a bit more liveliness. Are most of you all just rolling the stock pads, or do folks generally go for things like the ZMF pads?
Despite what I just wrote earlier I'm generally comfortable with less points of PEQ 48, 70, 130, 3.2k are the critical 4, then 5.5k, 9.5k, 1.2k if I want to get in the weeds.
Some folks really like the ZMF's, and some others. I can't help with that. I've become such a fan of the timbre/construction of the designers - that after the CC copper ring fiasco - I use less PEQ and less mods on the 600 then my two HFM's - by a good amount.
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