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Anker SoundCore Boom 2 EQ settings

Here you will find different EQs I created for the Boom 2. They are based on measurements but I had to readjust them by ear afterwards to make them sound more similar to the real speaker. These settings are meant to be used without BassUp but you can always activate BassUp for even more bass! “Oluv” is a more or less flat setting to the degree what was possible with the EQ, but it has booste...

SoundCore Motion 300 - EQ Settings (Helsinki, UBoom L, Soundlink Mini)

You will get my EQ settings for the SoundCore Motion 300 which should bring the frequency response closer to the following speakers: * Earfun UBoom L (one setting for upright placement, one setting for flat placement) * VIFA Helsinki * Bose Soundlink Flex * Bose Soundlink Mini SE Please keep in mind that the more bassheavy settings for the Soundlink Flex and VIFA Helsinki can result in some incr...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #85

I was too distracted with everything the last weeks and forgot to post any new music which k would like to do now, hope you like it:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-85/pl.u-11zBDJat8zoBp5

2023-09-13 19:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Still tweaking

I finally need to keep you updated, as I had several setbacks recently which somehow made me lose motivation to post something. One setback was Earfun who withdrew their cooperation offer for the Free Pro 3. This made me lose a big source of potential income that I need so urgently right now because we are currently in the process of exchanging our old oil-heating for a heat pump with necessary...

Soundcore Space One

I want to tell you the story around the recently released and already praised Soundcore Space One headphone.

Initially I was asked for a paid review about this headphone and was sent a sample unit some weeks ago. The sound was so horrid that I didn’t accept the deal also because there were too many limitations regarding what I could say and do. For example I wasn’t allowed to compare ...

Earfun Free Pro 2 or 3?

Recently I was negotiating with Earfun regarding a tuning for the Free Pro 3 by me. But they just offer the option of a 10-band EQ with the default tuning being already pretty bad, thus I cannot offer anything usable for that model unfortunately. I tried convincing them to create the basic tuning on my own, with additional "presets" by them, or offer a fully parametric EQ, or improve their basi...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #84

Hope you like the tracks:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-84/pl.u-JPAZobJTDaKj71

https://open.spotify.com/p...

Earfun Free Pro 2 - neutral tuning 6000hz

I finished a neutral tuning for the Free Pro 2 which should offer a similar spectrum to neutrally equalised speakers in a room and should sound similar to my neutral headphone target. They all do not sound exactly the same, but it was close to impossible to achieve this, also as the ear canal being the only sound forming factor for an IEM can even change during day and make the IEM appear to so...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #83

I collected some nice recordings for you again:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-83/pl.u-aZb0K37TPkXvZq

2023-08-16 21:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Oluv's neutral IEM target - WIP

I was not inactive the last 2 weeks, but too busy to post anything as I had set up my listening solution in the living room again and spent most my time to fine tune my headphone target a bit more. At the same time I tried to achieve a similar result for in IEM, which in my case is the Free Pro 2, based on my previous quick and dirty approach.

It's quite a frustrating experience if you th...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #82

Some tracks I collected a while back. As usual some tracks may be missing from Spotify but also Apple Music removed 1 track in the meantime which I had to replace with something else:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-82/pl.u-JPAZo5NtDaKj...

Earfun Free Pro 3 - first look

I received my sample of the Free Pro 3 and wanted to share some details with you.

When looking at the images (old Free Pro 2 always to the left) you can see that the new one increased in size slightly. Not only the charging box got larger but also the unit itself is slightly thicker now which would suggest a bigger battery for both. The ear wings remained more or less the same as before ...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #81

I haven’t posted any playlist lately because I haven’t listened to a lot of music recently before having finished my final EQ for the HD58X and my preliminary EQ for the Free Pro 2. I was mostly just listening to pink noise or my usual test tracks during doing my adjustments, as I didn’t have a “final” sound which I would regard as correct I simply avoided listening to new stuff to no...

Greetings from Italy

Like nearly every year we are spending our summer holidays in Italy and we already finished our 1st week which I would like to share some impressions from with you.

I will be quite busy when I am back because the Free Pro 3 sample should have already arrived by then. Allegedly it uses a QCC3072 chip which hopefully offers better quality than the Airoha chip. The sample unit should already...

Sennheiser HD58X EQ

I had to reupload the video because the recording had some imbalance. My current microphones lost some sensitivity on one side and although I tried to compensate for this, the speaker recording appeared still too far to the left.

The compensation I used for this recording is based on flattening the response of my equalised HD58X in order to make it sound like itself when liste...

Earfun Free Pro 2 - Oluv’s neutral target WIP

Like mentioned before I created this setting quickly before leaving for holidays to have some listening solution on the go. It was just a rough first adjustment to achieve a sound which was closer to the target I managed for the HD58X. As for an IEM the ear canal is the only sound forming factor, the final frequency response needs to have the effects of the individual concha somehow included. ...

Italia holidays

We arrived in Italy yesterday and I am currently at the beach listening with the Free Pro 2 and a completely new tuning which I quickly finished the night before leaving.

At first I wanted to take the HD58X together with the Qudelix with me but then I decided to spent some hours the night before we left analysing the measurements of both headphones/earphones that Oratory1990 made on his r...

Oluv's neutral headphone target

I am starting a completely new post on this topic instead of updating the existing ones, but as I started with a competely new setup this time, which also led to different results than my last approaches, I think this needs to be celebrated with a dedicated post.

First I tried setting up a kind of listening setup in my office room at my desk, but the acoustics was not suitable for that ta...

Sennheiser HD58X - Oluv's neutral target EQ

Here you can find my recent EQ for the Sennheiser HD58X with more or less fresh pads. I was using this headphone intensively since I got it in May, thus it should work for brand new units quite well. This EQ should represent "true neutral" sound with this headphone with no obvious bass or treble boost. Just the same response you would get from neutral speakers placed nearfield and equalized for...

Back to Life

I'm back, finally... I haven't responded to any of your private messages for longer, as I simply didn't have a clear mind recently and needed to get some distance before starting everything again which I had already started to question a lot in the meantime if it made any sense to continue with what I was doing and took this time to sort all my things and finally also present you some good news...

“Sextape” - playlist for lovers 💞

I haven’t posted any music for a while therefore wanted to share something special this time. I created this playlist after falling in love with my wife again celebrating our 20th anniversary. We were already close to separating, selling everything but somehow managed to renew our love again which became even more intense and passionate now.

This playlist is meant for making love tend...

Back on track soon

Hi guys,

I am sorry for my long absence but I was really facing hard times after my recent “crash” with lots of continuous ups and downs which made me drop into some depression that I am currently fighting with.

I didn’t even have the energy to login into my Patreon during the last weeks and wanted to avoid thinking about it because I had so many other issues to sort out firs...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #80

Here’s some music I collected a while back:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-80/pl.u-V9D7okKTBmbgoL

https...

Happy Mother’s day

I am currently visiting my mum and wanted to let you know that my friend was able to recover my data. The Pc is still broken and I will need to search for some replacement but at least I can continue all my work then.

I will stay here for some days to get some rest from all that recent stress I had to get through.

I finished my EQ for the HD58X and will try to achieve the same respo...

Sennheiser HD58X - speaker target V1N

I wanted to share my latest HD58X EQ with you which is based on my KH80 setup I demonstrated before, I will share more details on this target how it was achieved, what the purpose is etc in future when I have everthing working again. Just shortly: this EQ should represent the sound of a neutral speaker with the listener sitting exactly in the sweet spot of a standard stereo triangle with no ave...

Total crash

Sorry guys, but I need to let you know about the disaster that just happened. My laptop with all my recent work was dropped and is not working anymore (I’ll better save you the details how this happened exactly).

I brought it to a friend today to save all my latest EQ settings I was working on during the last weeks. Let’s hope he can recover at least those, but I have no computer to w...

Nubert X3000 - my new soundsettings

I was not satisfied with my previous settings and tried to improve them based on the sound I was hearing from the KH80. I think my new settings sound quite a bit more neutral, although I was not able to make the bass even flatter due to lack of further adjustments.

Nevertheless a speaker with advanced sound controls including a high pass filter allows for way deeper sound adjustments than...

Oluv’s audiophile collection #79

Some new (and not so new) grooves, but all of them timeless:

https://music.apple.com/at/playlist/oluvs-audiophile-collection-79/pl.u-38oW7m5TPVajRe

2023-05-10 19:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Neumann KH80 & Nubert X3000

Please listen with my previous X-EQs for the HD600 and HD58X to get the "right" sound. 

Below you can see the KH80 placed in my living room as shown stock (grey) and equalized in black. Averaged RTA measurements with moving microphone at listening position.(unsmoothened).:

With psychoa...

Measuring madness

I had ordered a new UMIK-1 microphone but noticed that it measures differently to my old one despite using the included calibration file. Therefore I also bought a SoundID from Sonarworks which again deviates from the others.

Red is my old UMIK, blue the new one and green the Sonarwork, measurin...