cam94z28
100+ Head-Fier
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Well suppose you're not THAT much of a basshead then, I find the Sony XB500 which is like the bassiest headhponest that exists and love how it sounds like with this EQ setting + 1 step above flat level on ZO which results in a stronger bass than stock XB500 but still much greater clarity/balance (bass put aside) due to my EQ settings as well as the ZO.
ZO v2 will have more contour levels though probably the first level will be less severe, as it seems currently it may add about 2.5dB bass boost or so I'd guess for the first step, just tiny bit more/roughly the same as FiiO E5 or something like that (while then the 2nd may be only like ~3dB etc and the steps probably increase about 0.5dB or so per step from there as I suspect on the max 31 level there's like maybe around 15dB or so increase, basicly I think it's roughly the same amount of bass boost capability it packs that XB500 has compared to a headphone such as LCD-2). So in theory you should probably be able to make almost any headphone bassheavy with ZO, whether it sounds great or not is ofc up to the headphone and how much of a boost is added but heh, the bass quantity it packs is quite amazing and scarily strong for something like XB500 that already got like ~15dB bass boost on it's own, I haven't really tried listening it with max setting cuz I don't think something like 30dB bass boost over the midrange or whatever is neither healthy for the headphone drivers or my ears in case I'd plan on hear anything besides bass as well but based on around level 7~10 or so I've tried a few times just for fun, it already has this kind of experience of "pads jumping around on my head"-kind of experience as the pressure/air or whatever tries to escape between the skin and the pads which gives a rather funny tickling effect even at rather low volume.
I actually have the XB500's. I haven't bothered to try them with the ZO because they have enough bass on their own. I'm definitely a basshead, but I'm out of my " 22-inch car subwoofer bass" phase. I want a lot of quantity, but I also want quality. That said, even step 1 is too much for my RX700's. They seem to get annoyingly boomy, and the bass sounds fake past that. I agree it needs the initial steps spaced further apart. Step 0 or 1 is still useful as a 840mw amp though
I can't take it over 1/5 volume through my S:Flo2 on any of my headphones.I used to hate the few open headphones I have, but now, i think they sound better than all of my closed. Techno is truly an experience on the ZO'd HD555's. It's the best of open (air, detail) and closed (punchy and deep bass) in one package. I think I will cave and get the AD700's just to see how they sound on the ZO.
Has anyone become bored yet and taken their ZO apart? I'm curious what kind of op-amp(s) is inside.
