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ayedea t1_is5d9yg wrote

Reply to comment by Ultima893 in Most discriminating audio reviewer by SnooStories7223

LCD-X are supposed to be very EQable. It’s possible your EQ was clipping? Are you lowering the preamp before raising the bass?

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Ultima893 t1_is5wefd wrote

I am not sure if I understand your terminology here. Source is MBP (volume at Max) connected to L30/E30. Amp is at 0 gain. I only turn the amps volume knob. I adjust EQ via sliders and I do not hear any bass improvements until it all of a sudden sounds extremely bad. Like rattling chains or TV static. I suppose I never tried first lowerikg the volume and then slowing adjusting the lower frequency sliders if that is what you meant…

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djentlemetal t1_is5yqrn wrote

You need to lower the gain below '0' whenever you raise any of the bass frequencies/sliders. Also, you need to set the proper bass/sub bass frequencies in order to reveal the proper type/amount of bass. My LCD-X's that are hooked up to my amp/DAC stack from my PC sound incredible and have the best bass of the cans I've acquired so far.

Edit: here's a snippet of my Equalizer APO settings. https://imgur.com/a/TO1vHEo They're based on oratory1990's recommended settings with the bass frequencies adjusted to taste. My LCD-X absolutely slams. You'll notice that my Pre Amplifying setting is set to -9.5 (top-left corner). This is to compensate for the gain increase introduced by raising any of the frequencies below above 0. If I didn't do that, then it would clip and possibly sound like a blown out subwoofer.

Edit 2: Here's a link to all of oratory1990's presets that pretty much run the gamut of most of the headphones we know, love and/or hate: https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/wiki/index/list_of_presets I used the LCD-X 2021 revision settings to tune my EQ. It takes some figuring out as there's a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth it.

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Ultima893 t1_is646t3 wrote

Thank you very much! I will do so and report back

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