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Acceptable-Exit-9212 OP t1_jd6z9qb wrote

Reply to comment by PolemiGD in Moondrops DSPs defective ? : Quarks DSP by Acceptable-Exit-9212

I tried many different audio sources etc. and the problem persists. So, the issue is tied with the DAC. Typically such EQs are implemented with IIRs. My quess is that they are using something like CM6533 . Samplerate matching control loop could cause this. (I don't think there is FT anywhere in this part of chain.)

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Jmo04 OP t1_jd6slnu wrote

Reply to comment by krucacing in IEM gangbang by Jmo04

Noire slams really really hard especially when EQ’d. I have no idea how people say these lack bass if they are getting a proper fit with them because even without eq it slaps. In a way, it kinda just sounds like a bigger mest haha. Mest has more defined imaging and separation I think but the noires give me a more more “grand” feeling to the music, especially when using the oratory preset of harman

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Jmo04 OP t1_jd6sctg wrote

Reply to comment by blorg in IEM gangbang by Jmo04

I also found male vocals to just be way too thin also. It’s the type of sound that really only works for female singers. I don’t see why it’s recommended so often when so few genres can actually take advantage of it. It may be somewhat accurate but it’s definitely not a fun listen for my personal taste

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SupOrSalad t1_jd6n6ce wrote

Reply to Moondrops DSPs defective ? : Quarks DSP by Acceptable-Exit-9212

On my review of them, I found that every couple seconds the group delay would have a spike where it would delay more than the rest, and then work it's way back, before having a spike again. As well, in the FR you would see a spike or dip in SPL when this happened as well. This was consistent with time, so if you measured it quickly, it would happen once, but if the sweep was much longer, you'd see repeating patterns of this. It's definitely something weird with the dac in it. As well, yeah the pitch seems to keep shifting

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blorg t1_jd6mas4 wrote

Reply to comment by Jmo04 in IEM gangbang by Jmo04

Anole VX is the SA6 with much more resolution. VX is better, the tonality is very similar though. Higher resolution than anything else I have heard, other than the Shure KSE1500, and even that it's on a similar level to. Higher resolution than the the MEST, it's really on a different level to other TOTL IEMs. The negative is it's maybe not quite as natural sounding as some other IEMs. I'd still take the Monarch Mk2 as a more natural sounding all rounder. I don't find the Anole VX too bright, but I'm not sensitive to very high frequencies.

It's much more expensive than the SA6 too though. But just to throw it out there as something that is tonally very close to the SA6, but absolute TOTL resolution.

https://crinacle.com/graphs/iems/graphtool/?share=IEF_Neutral_Target,Anole_VX,SA6

https://precog.squig.link/?share=qdc_Anole_VX_(OFF),DUNU_SA6_(Atmospheric)

My own graph possibly even closer

The SA6 Ultra was very well received, if the new SA6 is similar to that it could well be a winner.

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blorg t1_jd6jct5 wrote

Reply to comment by Jmo04 in IEM gangbang by Jmo04

Taste comes into it as well. I think the Variations competes well above its pricepoint. I have the SA6, IE600, Tia Trio and OG MEST as well. These are all great IEMs but I'd put the Variations over the SA6 and IE600 personally, and it's arguably better tuned than the Tia Trio or MEST. MEST has better stage, Tia Trio has better bass impact. But the tuning is better, and more natural, on the Variations. A/Bing right now with the SA6, the Variations sounds much more natural. Variations does have that mid-bass suck which doesn't work for everything.

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