Having spent the last couple days listening to headphones corrected to my own DF-HRTF (then just making some small changes to taste from there, tilt, bass level etc), I am SO excited for this technology to become more accessible. It makes ANY headphone I've heard out-of-the-box (even HE1 level stuff) just seem.....pointless. There's the stuff I had expected, everything just immediately sounding 'correct', all the detail, staging etc you could ask for without any of the harshness or colouration drawbacks often incurred with headphones that do those well out of the box. But then there's the other stuff, such as the improvement made from correcting each ear separately and the imaging just becoming absolutely PERFECT. It's also funny just swapping between this and typical Auto-EQ profiles and how far off those profiles are from this. It's just a shame that this is currently so difficult/involved to do, but I don't think it'll be too long until Apple or some other company figures out a way to do it based off 3d scans of your head and ears. And when that day comes....oh boy the audio industry is going to change.

The question of "can you EQ one headphone to sound identical to another" has always been able to be summarised as "in theory yes, practically no", but we are doing some cool stuff at the moment and yesterday I heard an Hd600 which we adjusted to exactly match the behaviour of an Hd800s on my own head.....and it sounded EXACTLY the same. Soundstage, detail, everything. It's been something I'd always wanted to experience but actually hearing it is kinda wild. Hd600 CAN have soundstage 😅

For anyone that's ever wondered "What on earth does all the other stuff inside a DAC actually do anyway!?", watch this!: youtu.be/c9-6NoJ7PPU

I've just posted my findings on Spotify Lossless. Unfortunately it seems that it's not what many of us were hoping for..... Gonna be keeping my @qobuz subscription for a while longer! youtu.be/mH2723cSejE

Munich vid is going up as a live premiere in 10 mins, come watch along! youtube.com/watch?v=RsYZZl7y…