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Oluv’s audiophile collection #78

My music mix for this week:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluv...

Sennheiser HD58X - V0N EQ

I was busy setting up the KH80 at my desk. The acoustics is pretty bad here, but I will keep them permanently at this location and need to equalise them to get something usable. The DSP has 8 PEQs ...

Restart

I ordered a new UMIK measuring microphone as mine could have become less precise over time. I got suspicious seeing the measurement of the KH80 which is claimed to be dead flat above 1khz, but I de...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #77

Some new music for this week:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/ol...

Nubert X3000 to Neumann KH80 transformer EQ

Sorry about that, but yeah the X3000 are way too bright in reality especially at nearfield. I was quite shocked when I tried the KH80 today which are way darker, therefore I will definitely need to...

Which headphones do you own?

I created a list of the main headphones which I would like to cover with an own sound profile. I have some more but they are probably not that popular. These here are well established models which ...

Sennheiser HD58X - Oluv's natural target V1X EQ

I decided to leave the HD600 aside for now instead of starting to swap pads back and forth, as even unmounting and re-mounting the same pads can change the response significantly. So far I managed ...

Sennheiser HD600 - natural target V4X EQ

The neverending story has finally come to an end to get some final graph which for my own ear sounds close to perfect. With V4X I finally achieved my goal at least with my HD600 unit and my current...

Pink noise

I remember having posted some pink noise files a while back, but cannot find them now. Therefore I wanted to do a dedicated post and thank my Patron who created these additional files which sound d...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #76

I often forget other stuff when I am deeply into something and I didn’t post any music this week yet therefore now some weekend music for you to enjoy:

2023-04-22 21:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Earfun UBOOM L - still worth in 2023?

Here you should hear the difference in sound with different units also explaining my ideas regarding the tuning of the UBoom L and comparing it to the Vifa Helsinki and Soundcore X600 again.

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Anker Soundcore X600 - first impressions

Sorry it took me so long to finish this video but I wanted to optimise my compensation towards my 3X tuning first and I think I managed an even more realistic result when listened over the HD600 wi...

Sennheiser HD600 - natural target V3x

I was trying hard to finalise my EQ for the HD600 and make it sound as close to the speakers I was hearing and named it "x" standing for the Nubert X3000 speakers I was using as reference. As the s...

X600 coming up

It just arrived in the morning and I had a first quick listen. It’s definitely not as great as some are trying to make it. I only tried it with default settings, with and without BassUp and with...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #75

Sorry that I am a bit late with this post but I actually hardly managed to listen to any music the last days or maybe even weeks as I was concentrating on bringing on my final headphone target to a...

Sennheiser HD600 - natural target V2

I settled on V1a as base for my further adjustments and came up with V2, in reality this is already V8 as I have spent the last 2 days to optimise eveything. I thought I had a great improvement and...

Sennheiser HD600 - natural target V1

Since my return from holidays I have spent all recent days optimising my target, as I was not satisfied with the previous result (V0) especially when directly compared to speakers and also when lis...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #74

A mix of various jazz-related genres:

https://music.apple.com/at/pla...

To do list…

Just wanted to let you know that we took some time off for easter holidays. Although I can hardly afford it it’s only a cheap all inclusive hotel in Croatia and I simply owe this to my wife after...

Sennheiser HD600 - Oluv's “natural” target EQ V0

Here you can find my "final" flat EQ for the HD600 as EqualizerAPO file and with adjusted settings for the Qudelix 5K to get more or less the same result from both.

The EqualizerAPO file has ...

Mission impossible: finding a neutral sounding headphone!

My original goal was to create a flat sounding compensation for my binaural sound samples which turned out to become a nightmare, as no  headphone could render those precisely equalised sample...

Nubert SP-500 & X3000 quick sound comparison

I recorded this a while back but forgot about it when I got sick and then got quite busy trying to optimise my target, but now you can listen to both speakers side by side with all their glory. To ...

Oluv's "neutral" & "universal" headphone targets

When I am deep into something, I can hardly concentrate on other things, therefore please apologize my recent silence but I have been struggling lately to finally settle my own headphone target and...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #73

Finest Jazz & Funk as usual:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #71 & 72

I forgot to post anything last week as I was sick laying in bed, therefore I would like to post 2 playlists today. This time I wanted to include some easier and more common stuff again as we had lo...

Marshall Middleton - the real outdoor test

Sorry guys, I feel quite sick since last week and wasn't very active and although I had returned the Middleton in the meantime I still found this video which I had shot the same day I did the other...

Nubert X3000 vs SP200

I tried sitting exactly the same in both cases, but nevertheless the differences in imaging are quite huge, the SP200 seem to play a bit more spacious but also with a stronger right bias. 

Nubert XS-3000 RC vs original recording

This was intended as direct comparison against the SP-200 with both speakers placed exactly the same, unfortunately I forgot to plug in my mics again after swapping the speakers, thus will need to ...

Wind symphony

I recorded this yesterday as we had quite a windy day again and I wanted to check the realism of my current recording setup. Please keep in mind that the video is not in sync with the audio and I w...

My future on Patreon

With the current situation, increasing prices everywhere, continuously dropping off supporters on Patreon, close to no income from Youtube, no affilate shares etc, my future on Patreon is quite uns...