gregorio
Headphoneus Supremus
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I can’t speak for Bigshot but I listen to IEMs pretty much every day. At work I listen to speakers nearly all the time, occasionally to HPs and very rarely to IEMs but at home I use them often and quite often when I’m travelling. My first paragraph would seem to be “getting to the crux of the matter” as you seem to be “trusting your ears” to tell you what’s actually happening in reality, rather than to just tell you about perception/preferences, on the basis that “you feel you know them well”.Maybe your last paragraph is getting to the crux of the matter, and with respect you and Bigshot rarely if ever listen with small earphones and so are taking your views from much more solid performing gear which behaves more predictably.
That should be a good clue that “your ears” are not telling you the reality of what’s occurring, because “abrasiveness” is not an audio property, it’s a perception. There’s only two options; either “you ears” (perception) is simply creating a perceived difference where there is none, due to some bias or, “your ears”/perception are picking up on some real difference, a difference in say frequency response which they’re misinterpreting as a difference in “abrasiveness”. Either way, “your ears”/perception are not telling you the truth of what’s actually occurring!I've now been using the new cable a few days and haven't yet heard the abrasiveness I did before with the supplied (bundled) cable.
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