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rlinED t1_j9u2c1h wrote

Reply to comment by GarugaHunter in Hifiman Edition XS and Moondrop Venus - Mid-fi Meh by slooploop2

Interesting. I pretty much never use my XS with EQ. Don't find them to be shrill or weak at all. Do you just tweak manually or use some EQ profile?

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GarugaHunter t1_j9u35xu wrote

It entirely depends on the kind of music you listen to. Jazz sounds fine without any EQ.

The Edition XS lacks bass for me and it doesn't have the midrange prettiness of the HD6 series to make up for it. Again, I listen to mostly metal so the XS is near unusable to my ears that way, obviously not everyone feels that way.

The Headphone Show has a tutorial on how to EQ (in general) and in that video they give the Edition XS as an example, with an example tuning. I've modified it a little bit, smoothing out the midrange peak and reducing the bass shelf.

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rlinED t1_ja4zwqq wrote

I've had a look at the video and tried out the eq setting he did. My impression is still that the XS sounds pretty damn fine without eq. It's of course worth a try though. Btw I also listen to metal a lot and also sometimes even use the XS for practicing guitar, to me it's fine.

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GarugaHunter t1_ja51ihj wrote

What kind of metal, bands genres etc.

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rlinED t1_ja550aw wrote

Stuff like Caladan Brood, Dissection, Opeth, Vintersorg, Hamferð, Watain, some Stoner, Kyuss and such...

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GarugaHunter t1_ja563id wrote

Based, and double checked. Blues for the Red Sun for example sounds perfectly fine without the EQ, maybe a bit piercing if anything.

Watain’s debut doesn’t gain too much from the EQ either.

Pestilence’s Consuming Impulse I feel does benefit from the EQ, it becomes a lot meatier (IMO as it should).

Ahab’s The Call of the Wretched Seas also benefits more as it’s a more atmospheric album and uses that bass headroom quite well. Without the boost in the low end, it sounds a bit weak.

Again it all depends 😳 I also have a EQ profile where all the changes are 50% of what they originally are. So it’s kind of between that EQ profile and without EQ.

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Avatar-san t1_j9vvtx1 wrote

I find XS to be great with stuff like rap/lofi or other types of music with bass focus, but without eq it's horrible for electric guitars in my opinion.

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