It makes a lot of difference for heat, plus spatialisation is better. Also very nice for music.

I bought the meze copper cable. Nice build but expensive compared with some aftermarket cables. In any case 109 is a great headphone

Roland has been making audio equipment (mostly for making music) for decades. These were about $190 after taxes in Amazon. Overall, they're pretty neutral with a slight emphasis on the mids. I use the Fosi to slightly bump up the bass and slightly lower the treble. I am still getting to know the headphones, and plan to write something up once I've had more time with them.

The Q4 and the DS1 both work flawlessly from all of my devices that have a USB-C port. The Q4 is connected via a USB-C C to USB-B cable, and powered by a cell phone charger. The K5, on the other hand doesn't like my tablets at all (they can't drive it.)

Maybe so. I find that Celestee is like ice cream and the Radiance is the cherry ontop. Just nice.

We don't need to apply a certain 'sound' to all sets. The HD660S are a culmination in years of understanding audio by Sennheiser. For my personal preferences and by accord a number of others, these are the best tuned headphones I've heard, even more so than a Focal Utopia.

These are wonderful keep that icky Harman* stuff away!

*j/k obviously but people give it far too much cred. I also enjoy Harman too.

Hmm, Radiance has slightly better soundstage than Celestee so maybe that?

Just thank him and be happy that he took care about you

Mine 20 days ago

You're pretty much in a minority of one, but audio is subjective like that. As long as you're happy, it's all good.

beatiful cans

I like my schiit basic

I think the KSC75 sound far better and more natural than 6XX do, despite being 1/10 the cost and having no bass. 6XX are, as far as I'm concerned, mud-fi and a Reddit meme.

I know I'm alone in that opinion on Reddit, but this isn't just my opinion. I just think Reddit has fairly questionable taste and doesn't know any better.

> That's like trying to compare your Anandas head to head with a Focal Utopia

Having heard them, the Utopia isn't anything to write home about. Cost isn't much of an indicator of sound quality after a certain point, and as we can see with the KSC75 versus 6XX, you can charge out the ass for very mid stuff.

SoundSource is probably the easiest / cheapest (there is a free trial for SoundSource but there might be other freeware. I haven't looked into this in a while). It has a built-in 10 band EQ and support for AU plugins. It's useful for more than just EQ as well.

You can also use Loopback (more expensive than SoundSource) and route it through a DAW, standalone VST, etc.

There are also hardware solutions for this such as a DAC with DSP chips (Apollo Twin for example), and plenty of other ways via hardware.

There's also Roon which has built-in DSP functionality which includes an EQ though that would only apply to audio played through Roon.

Uh, say thank you? Being an audiophile doesn’t preclude showing gratitude.

It really is a great headphone! Meze did well with this one.

I mean... $200 vs. $700. I don't know why you'd expect equal technical capability. That's like trying to compare your Anandas head to head with a Focal Utopia or ZMF Verite. Roughly the same price ratio. The Anandas aren't on the same planet, but it doesn't make them crap.

And I think you're alone in calling the 6XX a trap. They do certain things incredibly well, and far better than anything in their price range for probably the better part of a decade. Bass is not one of those things, but if you're chasing natural timbre and mids the 6XX is very solid.

And whether you prefer the soundstage to be wide or narrow is as much personal preference as anything. Many people really like the "inside your head" sensation of the 6XX.

I use the 109 pro with the fiio k7. I purchased them from apos and they included a free cable upgrade to their flow cable. It’s a fantastic setup.

The only comment on my advice post in r/headphoneadvice was to go end game on an $1800 set of headphones, so thank you for posting this reasonable and apparently awesome setup.

Sound quality will probably be fine, the main thing to be weary of if you use Bluetooth, for anything other than music and phone calls, is lag. Depending in the implementation (codec, buffer size) you’ll see anything from 30 to 200ms of latency. Lips may be noticeably out of sync in videos, and game audio may be disadvantageously laggy. “Gaming headphones” that are wireless come with transmitters specifically designed for low latency so they’re on the low end of the lag scale where it’s not really noticeable, but your average Bluetooth implementation will be very noticeable.

These graphic EQs are not that precise. If you put these in yourself, it's probably not as close to the target as you think.

That said, I just don't like the Harman tuning. Too bassy, too shouty, and oddly dark sounding.

For what’s it’s worth I don’t like the Harman curve on any of my headphones.

u/SlowestSundew7, Well the Harman is a preference target... Which not all people like but my observation here is you're using the worst type of EQ possible for Harman... don't use Graphic EQ Presets for Harman... Please get a different app....

Equaliser APO with Peace GUI is the best bet (Iassume you use a PC)

I can send you parametric EQ presets after you install the two exe files

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Lol this is my exact setup except silver. I am happy with it though, my expenses tend to go more towards home theater.

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