Am I the only one that does this to their headphones? I only do this for a couple of tracks, THE PLAN by Travis Scott on the LCD 2’s with this 10+ db bass shelf makes it so fun. OTHERWISE I keep it at 5db. Am I insane for this or nah?
i dont know mann, will it affect longevity? I found that my noire even if eq with low shelf +12db @ 100hz also don’t have the satisfying impact, e.g. it is louder, but the impact just not there, i not sure why…
They are yours. You bought them. You use them however you feel like using them. If this makes you happy, do it! You honestly don’t need our validation for that. :)
(I do have about an ~11 dB bass boost on my Audeze-headphones. But this is compensation because my amp is borked and pulls waaay brighter than neutral. Even with that shelf, kind of bass light. Really need a new amp that doesn’t regularly short itself)
Nah. I’m a bass head so I pump that left side quite a bit
Not an LCD owner but prior to getting my T50RP 50th Anni (which now does most of the heavy lifting for any bassier music) whenever I wanted to listen to my K702 over my other cans but wanted to enjoy some nice bass I would just stick a stupid +12-15dB bass shelf on there similar to yours and call it a day. It surprisingly took it like a champ.
I haven’t yet tried doing the same on the planar goodness that is the T50RP 50th Anni, but I may do later today when I have a moment to listen, just for the hell of seeing what these drivers can actually handle.
I reckon if you’re a fan of stinky bass on ‘big’ tracks, planars are pretty great when it comes to EQ’ing them to have dumb bass shelves, because for me at least, there’s no discernible distortion, and that seems to be common among high-end headphones and I imagine those T50’s could handle similarly.
Jawdropping bass