Headphone random conversation

[Colif]

I now understand for music you want a fairly neutral tuning as the music has already been mixed and EQ'd anyways.

I have learned its best not to generalise. People want different things, hence bass boost and IEM that are too bright, are a thing. I didn't really know what I wanted when I started... just not bass boost. But you can go too far in other direction.

Is there a way to fix that in Windows? I want the opposite actually. Where the db level is on volume 16/100 currently, I want it at like 50/100. I essentially want the IEMs to be a bit quieter, but not too quiet. It wasn't uncommon to have my headphones turned up past the 70/100 volume mark, but again these IEMs get unbearably loud around 30/100.

i should really stop editing threads after posting

Your IEM have 3.5x less impedance than your headset. They are also probably more sensitive to volume increases. So your Headset DAC is pushing more power out than is necessary. It lacks the control needed for IEM. Its not really rare, a lot of amps are too loud for IEM. High Sensitivity can also mean they can hear hum on amps that have high impedance...

You probably get away with this (Crin mentions at end)

KA15

KA15, Decoding and Headphone Power Amplifier

www.fiio.com

seems it has desktop mode which lets you use a charger cable and bypass battery so you don't need to worry about it running out of battery while you run it. Correction, it has no battery, but it will run off the power lead and not drain device its attached to. It has 3 levels of gain which would let you set a volume you want.

Fiio seem to like the cassette look