Well, either my variant of Jergpads v1 went terribly bad somehow, or I'm allergic to that 2 kHz cut. I'd love a reference set of pads for comparison, but I'm considering offloading these HE-500 onto someone else, because Paradox is so much better - both after equalization.
Hmm, got something closer to the end result. Let's call it Jerg pads 1.5 - steps 1, 2 and 4 with slightly different hole placement and thin tape instead of "whole".Got rid of the screen and that silly plastic band holding the pad on the mounting ring.Result is quite hefty subbass, closer to linear, laid back but with some nasal tonality. Much smoother sound. The weird 8.5k hole is not correctable though - perhaps the velour top mod would help with that. Equalized it's marvelous, especially the bass. Very hard to pick between it and equalized Paradox - it slightly wins on subbass and absolute extension and a bit better soundstage I think.Of course Paradox seems way easier to equalize. Anyway, I'll add the #3 mod later - perhaps it will remove the uneq'd nasal feeling and simplify the equalization.
Many sine tones at -6 dBFS straight out of Foobar2000. General loudness is precalibrated to comfortable levels (like a normal talk) by listening to EBU R128 loudness compensated audiobooks and radio talks. (with reference level also set to -6 dBFS instead of default -12 dBFS)I also use a tone sweep from a VST to find the exact widths of peaks/dips.Reference is loudness of a 500 Hz sine tone.
