justaalawstudent OP t1_itz1iln wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:49 AM

Reply to comment by BionicSammich in K702s with L30II and E30II - is it supposed to sound this harsh? by justaalawstudent

Again, thank you for this. I thought the Harman curve was supposed to be "neutral" so I didn't even think of using other measurements, but after tweaking a lot I found a K701 measurement that REALLY tames the harshness. I was nuts thinking of selling the E30II before doing this. It solved the problem. Now I'm enjoying my K702s again.

Edit: that was not a misspell, it's a K701 measurement that I'm using (which shouldn't be all that surprising that it works since they sound almost identical).

BionicSammich t1_itz4hg9 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:22 AM

I found that AutoEQ made a huge difference for me with my K702s. I find myself using them more than my HD6XX now. And I only found it when Crinacle just did a quick demo of it in passing in one if his videos. It makes a mild improvement to my HD6XX, but the difference with the K702s was massive. I know a lot of people don't like the idea of EQing (I was one if them) but it's free and it can be an improvement.

Edit: Also, if you want to try keep it as close to stock sounding just for the sake of it, make a copy of that EQ profile and just start moving the siders back towards 0. If you don't like it, just put it back to the value it was. I find even all the K702 really needs is a reduction in the 2000hz range. That gets rid of most of the harshness.