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Oluv’s audiophile collection #29

In the late 70s and early 80s a music style called “smooth rock” or „soft rock“, some may call it intelligent pop or adult contemporary or even easy listening had its peak with acts like Do...

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Earfun UBOOM L - WIP

I got 2 samples of the upcoming Earfun UBOOM L and used the recent days to fine tune the final sound.

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Wer viel misst, misst Mist...

this is a popular German saying which plays with the equal sounding words "misst" which stands for "measuring" and "Mist" which means crap. Thus "someone how measures a lot, measures a lot of crap"...

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Oluv’s audiophile collection #28

It’s been a year ago when I started my audiophile collection series. Some of you maybe don’t know that I am polish...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - sample variation

I wanted to bring up this issue again as I just checked the response of 2 other Free Pro 2 units I got recently and like visible from the measurements they differ quite a bit compared to my referen...

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Coming up…

I was trying to do some further optimisations for the reference tuning lately and although I managed to achieve an even smoother response, it started to deviate too much from what I perceive with s...

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"Reference" tuning with alternate bass settings

Here you can find some additional bass settings which should offer you more lower bass boost for those who need it. The standard setting should offer a flat bass response that you would also get fr...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - discount

I just ordered a 5th Free Pro 2 unit for €47 with the current discount and an additional code I got from Earfun recently which I would like to share here: 

(Code should also work for A...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - reference tuning for all resonances

I finally prepared some further settings to cover additional ear canal resonances and will need your help to optimise those settings by some trained ears.

My own setting was achieved by endle...

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Newsweek

Hi guys, first of all thanks for your continuous support. Recently I got lots of Patrons asking for refunds, not being satisfied with the content etc. I must confess I had a hard time lately and co...

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Oluv’s audiophile collection #27

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-27/pl.u-76...

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Oluv’s audiophile collection #26

For today I wanted to dig a bit deeper into some obscure Brazilian jazz and fusion. I selected some nicely recorded tracks with this particular Latin vibe, I hope you enjoy it. Unfortunately 2 trac...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - reference tuning

I would like to post my first result of the new reference tuning, which replaces all previous tunings I did in terms of fidelity or neutrality or however you would like to call it. After weeks of t...

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Upcoming “reference tuning”

I spent the recent weeks mostly with trying to optimise my own target for headphones and IEMs trying to match the perceived spectrums I get from all of them which in the meantime seems close to imp...

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Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 - new firmware update

Sorry I was sure they sent me up to date units but they still had an early firmware installed. I updated 1 of the new units to compare it to the original firmware and also to the old Stormbox Micro...

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Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 - new Tribit app with user EQ


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Why does tuning take so long?

I want to apologise, but I won't manage to finalise the current Free Pro 2 tuning with all resonance frequenices for February. I was fighting to optimise the settings since RC2 but it will take eve...

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Minirig Sub winner

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Minirig Sub to give away

I found a spare Minirig Sub during cleaning and wanted to give it away to someone who needs one. I am not sure which version it is, but I assume it’s the Sub 2 although packaging says 3, but mayb...

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Oluv’s audiophile collection #25

This time I wanted to again share some great vintage recordings mainly from the 70s but also 60s. Of course there can be some slight hiss or other artefacts in some tracks due to their age but stil...

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Bose Soundlink Flex compared

I am actually suprised how well the Bose fares against all these speakers with just too much dynamic compression at levels close to maximum, but I was also suprised how well the Denon still sounded...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - newtral revision

Having achieved a smoother neutral kind of headphone sound with my new HD600 EQ, I continued approaching the same kind...

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Finding "neutral" - my HD600 EQ profile

For those wondering, I spent the last couple of days with hours of measuring, listening, comparing and fine tuning the HD600 to achieve a really "neutral" kind of target.

It took me several a...

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Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 - first impressions

This video was shot with the DJI Action 2 which unfortunately fails to stabilize properly with horizon balancing enabled. The movement appears very jaggy, which I was not aware of before. Therefore...

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The next logical step in audio...

I actually lost most interest in buying every new released headphone to find the "best one", as from my own personal experience I managed to make with sound reproduction over headphones and inears ...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - the new "newtral"

Based on my findings from here with an additional dip trying to recreate some measured effects of my outer pinna I spe...

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Oluv’s audiophile collection #24

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-24/pl.u-38...

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Let's talk about "sound quality"...

The discount code for the Earfun Free Pro in the video description should become active in some hours.

The mentioned IEM was the 64 Audio U12t which goes for around $2000. I based my EQ on a...

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Earfun Free Pro 2 - HRTF optimised EQ

Based on my measurements and findings I did lately I tried a quick first adjustment to get a spare filter left and be ...

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Airoha AirReps adjustment tutorial

Tony has created a detailed step by step tutorial how to adjust the internal EQ of the Earfun Free Pro which many newbies may be interested in seeing before trying their own luck. He also shows how...

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