I have the original P1 which I also got for $70. They sound honky AF stock, but man do they transform after an EQ. Solid buy OP.

Those are indeed excellent looking

Sennheiser 424

It's exactly this. I once asked him that.

EQ is to fix the tonality to your preference.

Oratory EQ is drive toward Harman target. Maybe Harman target is not your liking.

However, to say no EQ is always the best is not valid argument either. All your headphones have different tonality. So you cannot say every single one has perfect tonality.

Tommy The Cat?

You're not the only one, the only pair I've tried an Oratory preset on that I've actually liked are the PC37X

They don't. They are good for the money though.

Quite nice, I found the headband uncomfortable. I did send them back because I got a great deal on some XM5's. They are decent though for the cash.

It is, a coworker of mine has that exact headset, only his is blue and black and he bought it for 15 USD

Like maybe this one has nicer pads or something idk, but the shape is the same

Might not be what you are exactly looking for, but can give it a try

https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/

I am currently using it to switch between my headphone and speakers with a single hotkey press.

I just re-purchased a KSC75 literally yesterday! I have to say, I forgot they have that tiny flimsy piece of metal where your ears are. I'm going to add something soft but not bulky there just to add a bit more surface pressure. I'm thinking a tiny square from a yoga mat or something should be plenty. It's the spot that gets sore for me after a while with these.

Sonography by scientists.

How do you calculate it tho? I mean, how do you know MacBook Air's output power? I have the M1 Air and this might come in handy.

Z has been doing it for years with that same case I think. Nice lookin collection? What’s your favorite?

If I had to I could use my 6xx's as my one and only pair, but it's nice to change it up occasionally.

My K612 have perfect center image, because, you know, I have said about channel balance.

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AutoEQ just takes the measurements from various sources (like Oratory) and the software automatically makes the EQ preset correction. It's not the actual people like Crinacle, Oratory etc making these presets, they just provide the raw measurement data.

The Oratory PDF presets on the other hand, as far as I know, are manually crafted by him for every individual headphone.

With my DT 770 I initially thought the AutoEQ and Oratory presets just make them sound boring and unexciting. I tried a couple of AutoEQ ones, Oratory manual preset and random presets from youtube and reddit. People said they make them way better, but I always came back to stock.

But lately they've been growing on me a little. I can listen either with stock or with the more neutral EQ presets, depending on my mood. Sometimes I want more oomph (stock) and sometimes I want more relaxed, less fatiguing sound.

With my AirPods Pro I prefer the stock sound, presets make them sound kinda thin. I actually like the neutral sound here and feel like presets take it away. I just manually boost treble, and sometimes sub bass when I feel like more oomph.

My Porta Pros are a lot better with Oratory preset. It makes them less muddy and gives them some sub bass and bass separation.

My Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear is the biggest improvement with presets. On stock, the bass overpowers everything, except the high treble. After EQ they sound very decent. I was honestly surprised how good the presets make them sound.

So all in all, it really depends on the headphones. The presets can be used more as a correction for bad tuned headphones which sound you don't like, rather than enhancing a pair that is already good.

More detail than sundara is probably enough detail for life. I have some austrian audio hi-15 the cheap ones and they're too much, there is such a thing as too much detail where it becomes annoying and hard to enjoy.

I agree that it's silly to try and search out a "perfect reproduction" of someone else's idea of how a song should sound, but if you were to do that, it would probably be the mixing engineer, and Harman is basically designed to mimic the sound of speakers in a room. So that kind of fits.

I also think it makes some logical sense to use EQ to smooth out the things that makes a headphone weird (e.g. a massive spike at 8khz), because nobody would mix/master music on the assumption of a bizarre frequency pattern that is idiosyncratic of a particular Grado (for example). The Harman curve is the closest thing to a "normal" that there is. Then from there you can adjust to taste, like by boosting the bass. Or maybe by adding back some treble if that's what appealed to you about the Grado in the first place.

This is the exact setup up for demo at my local headphone store so I can positively say that it's probably wise to stop here for your wallet's sake!

What IEMs do you usually use? The Dusks feel massive compared to the timeless

Wish I could wear them longer but at some point they just get bothersome. Do love to rotate them along with others.