Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
- Incredibly efficient. Driven great from my Opus #1, no need for my Mojo or M9XX.
- That efficiency lends itself to being extremely sensitive. I never before realized the hum I'd get in my opus #1 when plugged in to power to charge the battery, with any other full hp or iem. I could even distinguish differences in the buzz of the hum from different 5v power supplies. And that sensitivity is readily available in response to the slightest musical stimuli.
- if I hated EQ, I'd really not like this iem. Not at all.
Maybe if I was young, and really cared for my hearing, the treble of this would be 'enough'. But by 18 I'd already caused my hearing some damage. 35 years later, certainly not better.
- Luckily I LOVE equalization. As does this iem. It responds very well to it.
My EQ is as follows. Any positive opinion is based on this in effect in my opus #1.
(I do not know if each division is 1db or 0.5db, or other)
Hz : Division 31.5 : -3 63 : -3 125 : -3 250 : -2 500 : -3 1K : 3 2K : 5 4K : 0 8K : 6 16K : 9
ForEach, plus or minus 1 based on the music or my mood. It certainly is never sparkly. But it sounds great.
- Hours of listening loud, with the treble boosted as stated, yet no ringing in the ears.
- Today, I spent a bit over an hour at Audio46, auditioning & comparing/contrasting the iSine 20 & LCD i4 (no EQ), with plans to buy one. I left the shop and plugged this Cardas in my ears. I expected to be thorougly dissapointed. I activated the EQ, and was actually very satisfied with the sound. All but the top octave that is. That was unexpected; a happy surprise.
Hz : Level 31.5 : -5 63 : -5 125 : -5 250 : -4 or -5 500 : -5 1K : -1 2K : 2 or 3 4K : -2 or -1 8K : 8 16K : 10
With this, the cymbals followed by tambourines during the intro of Lust for Life sounds right, and different; a disqualifying factor for a headphone is when those two unique high frequency instruments sound the same in that intro passage of that song. Still world's from what the isine 20 and lcd i4 gave me un eq'ed. But nevertheless, not every headphone responds this well to equalization. The bass and mid of these more than makes up for needing the eq'ing in the top half of the frequency range.