Your PEQ settings are a major improvement on the Deuce. They remove the harshness in the high frequencies, bring back the missing midrange, and take some of the bloat out of the bass. Well done!
Really enjoying your tuning, thanks so much for sharing. I did turn down 6.20k to 2.3 gain and 10k to 3.3 gain, this reduced some treble harshness for many tracks in my music library but others certainly sound better on your original settings. There really is no perfect tuning for all tracks.
Very nice videos about the Deuce. I had my Deuce for a week now, and I'm really enjoying it, and I would love to try your PEQ on mine to hear your take on them. Congratulations for your channel!
I can email you the settings. All I ask is you like and subscribe to the channel, plus give comments here on your opinion with the settings. Just email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
I listen to a little bit of everything, but mainly I listen to heavy metal, death metal type of music, so a lot of fast drums, cymbals etc. with your EQ I feel the music is more engaging. It feels a bit more opened up. I noticed it particularly when you hear the cymbals. It has a shine to it with your EQ. I have always heard people say things like "this iem is great for metal" but I feel like some may be to bright. Some may be too muddy/congested. Some don't have the separation and some don't have that airy shine to it.
Great detail in this video! I received my Deuce about 2 weeks ago and have been really enjoying them! Your PEQ settings are really intriguing though, and I'd love to give them a try if you could share. I use Equalizer APO/PEACE EQ while on desktop, and the Qudelix-5K while on the go for my PEQ settings. Thanks!
I'd love to try you PEQ settings. where can I get a hold of them? it seems like you've done a great job really balancing them out. I find the treble just a little too recessed. good review. they're a great set, the bass is really well done.
Hi, liked your video and subscribed. I just purchased it today and waiting for it. In the meantime would you please share the PEQ setting for Fatfreq deuce, thanks.
@@PCMKR-xe2vx please email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I will send you the PEQ settings. This is a price email and not me trying to get email addresses for any other purpose.
@@Oun104 interesting you asked. I'm working on it. I have so many that I've measured and did written reviews on. Need to get them all on to the same sheet of music so to speak.
@@Ducbloke yeah that be great specially the part where if you eq them what could they possible acheive or not Would be a work but would be really interesting
@@Oun104 the hard part is the listening to 40 sounds with and without to gat the scores that detailed. I have the historical data from the first 30.songs I'm using for previous IEMs. I'm going to post a side by side of the Simgot EA500LM and Sivga Que next. Single DD sets under $100
@@Ducbloke yeah that be good But yes 40 sounds hectic Why dont you pick 2 or 4 songs which could have every thing 1 for the bass and mid bass 1 for mids 1 for treble for for accuracy imaging and sepration sort of
We all start somewhere. I have another video that explains how to load the PEQ settings into Poweramp. You can also use a program called Wavelet. If you're using an apple device, sorry to say you're out of luck. Here's the link to the tutorial. ua-cam.com/video/1Tb3u0FXh90/v-deo.html Provided you liked and subscribed, here's my email address and I'll send you the PEQ settings DucBloke916@gmail.com Happy listening
@@professor55 Oh, I just noticed that I received a response this morning. It appears they are currently handling customs issues, which is causing the delay. It took them 3 days to reply, which suggests there might be some bottlenecks in their supply chain. My order is alive!! 😎🤘
@@brownwallet942 I received mine a few days ago. Love every bit of it. I had a hard time make a decision on Estrella vs Deuce. Went ahead with Deuce. Would love your review comparing the two !
@@David-sv2mr I'm getting the Hiby R8ii in for review this week. I will let you know what the native player does and doesn't do. You can always run Poweramp
I think this is better than Dusk. Dusk is only good because of the DSP cable having EQ applied and using a USB-C DSP connector that does the DAC function isn't ideal if you have better equipment
@@camerondupuisbissonnette2937 nope, I think Deuce will be better. I've heard Dusk without the USBC dongle and Deuce beats it hands down. Just overlayed both in Squiglink and I can tell you there's a 9dB difference between them, out of the box. Perspective, 3dB doubles the Bass, so doubled 3 x means 6 x more Sub-Bass in the Deuce and it can take it!
@junaidsultan1138 just checked the specs. My ifi Go Pods put out 120mW at 32 ohms and can drive this set, but without much headroom. The Go Link is 70mW at 32 ohms. So it will work but I wouldn't recommend it at the volumes I like
I can email you the settings. All I ask is you like and subscribe to the channel, plus give comments here on your opinion with the settings. Just email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
@@ElNINETEENTH no, GM is in another league entirely. The Deuce is the best I’ve heard at under $300. It’s better than a lot of $800 sets I’ve heard, with EQ applied.
Really depends on your definition of Fun. Most people use Fun to describe a tuning that isn't neutral. Has a lot of bass and Treble. I found this very neutral, but not boring or safe if you will. It has good slam and bass feel due to the dedicated DD for the low end.
Makes no sense for people to copy the eq. 1 depends on the eq of rhe dap. Unless it's a sone that has the best eq. 2nd is that the uppers mids and treble for up 2db for each 10db the volume goes up because of the high frequency does not required air. The best is to tune them with filters. Inside the nozzle sponge density or mesh outside grill for the perfect tuning according to the volume. So when inhear peolle copying eq. Makes me laugh. And yes. Mib bass needs to be there if the volume goes up ton85db and above. Otherwise wounds to thin.
I can give you several examples that put this into perspective. When musicians are in the recording studio, the monitor speakers play back the recording session. The sound engineer mixes this with EQ electronically, not physically with filters. When you have a home stereo with speakers you usually have at least a Bass and Treble dial, if not a mids or even a full EQ, to tune it in electronically, you don't use physical filters. What we're doing here is no different. It's elevating and reducing specific frequencies and ranges. PEQ is also more powerful that regular EQ. The Q value allows for width. So you get any given frequency, gain value and then width. The higher the Q value the narrower the frequency spread. So a Q value of 0.50 has a broad range impact, where as a Q value of 2 is very specific to a small range, concentrated if you will. The trick is finding the right settings. Most folks are used to seeing EQ settings for Rock or Pop etc. that look like a wave. This is very generic. The PEQ settings I create are used on a broad range of sources. I use the FiiO K19 desktop DAC, ifi Go Pods, iBasso DX320MAX Ti, DX240 and FiiO M17 DAPs. I can tell you that the IEM's sound a bit different depending on the source and the PEQ values, as a constant, will also sound slightly different depending on the source. Where things get very interesting is when I use Mango Player on the DX320MAX Ti Class A DAP. This is the cleanest reproduction of the lossless flac files. The PEQ settings in Mango are difficult. Only 6 bands, so I have to work within those constraints to compress what I've learned in Poweramp and K19 DSP. But I can tell you I've had EXCELLENT results and feedback on the settings I've come up with. Mark DeVitre from the Watercooler has sent me about 8 or 9 TOTL IEM sets to do my tuning on them. He's been super happy with the results, as it breaths new life into these sets. I have a set of Clear Tune Monitor Da Vinci X Universals he sent me yesterday next to me now. cleartunemonitors.com/products/da-vinci-x-universal ... A $1200 set and I'll post a video on these shortly after I finish PEQ tuning them. Perhaps give it a try. You have nothing to lose, as it's entirely a reversible decision.
@Ducbloke it makes sense if you have the peq eq and dac. But for a dap, it's impossible that solution. I agree with what you said. But was mention dap player and not dac, so I was thinking m how can we transport that perfect eq to the dap. Unless we have a sony dap or the other dap that I forgot the name that has peq eq. And I know what you saying and what's a peq eq. I am a musician that has 80 iem and needs to retune all of them with filters inside and out just because I like the drivers.lol wish that daps had great eq in this days
Your PEQ settings are a major improvement on the Deuce. They remove the harshness in the high frequencies, bring back the missing midrange, and take some of the bloat out of the bass. Well done!
Thanks for the input! very much appreciated
Really enjoying your tuning, thanks so much for sharing. I did turn down 6.20k to 2.3 gain and 10k to 3.3 gain, this reduced some treble harshness for many tracks in my music library but others certainly sound better on your original settings. There really is no perfect tuning for all tracks.
@@cashedxcheck many other factors, source, library, ear, preference etc
Very nice videos about the Deuce.
I had my Deuce for a week now, and I'm really enjoying it, and I would love to try your PEQ on mine to hear your take on them.
Congratulations for your channel!
I can email you the settings. All I ask is you like and subscribe to the channel, plus give comments here on your opinion with the settings. Just email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Your EQ is definitely much better than the original tuning.
@@dougmorato thank you for the feedback! Very much appreciated 👍
Thanks for the review and the PEQ tuning
I listen to a little bit of everything, but mainly I listen to heavy metal, death metal type of music, so a lot of fast drums, cymbals etc. with your EQ I feel the music is more engaging. It feels a bit more opened up. I noticed it particularly when you hear the cymbals. It has a shine to it with your EQ.
I have always heard people say things like "this iem is great for metal" but I feel like some may be to bright. Some may be too muddy/congested. Some don't have the separation and some don't have that airy shine to it.
@@SofaKing88 thanks for the great feedback!!!
i like the snap transitions
Helps with image placement as a time stamp
Instant sub dude. Great stuff and very well explained!
@@necrosrandist thank you
great review. I would like to try your peq. thanks.
Email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Wow you’re a legend! Wild stuff thanks! Cant wait for mine to get here
Email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com for the files
Very good review! Go on💎🤘🏻.
Just got my Deuce and really enjoying them would love to try out your PQ settings
@@PeacockObscuraWaveReview email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Great detail in this video! I received my Deuce about 2 weeks ago and have been really enjoying them! Your PEQ settings are really intriguing though, and I'd love to give them a try if you could share. I use Equalizer APO/PEACE EQ while on desktop, and the Qudelix-5K while on the go for my PEQ settings. Thanks!
@@scottula email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and subscribe if you haven't already
Thank you for the awesome review. I have just bought this set.
Kindly asking that you share your PEQ.
@@wana.me003 email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I'll send them to you. Thanks for the comments and subscribing
I am convinced based on your review! Seems they are having a tough time keeping up with demand.. so no idea when to actaully buy a set.
@@earlybird3668 I think Bloom Audio has them in stock
This is a great video. Subbed
Thanks for the sub!
Loved the review mate! Subscribed and Liked. Would love to get your PEQ settings for my BTR15!!
@@GearGeek666 email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Snappy enjoyable video. Love my Deuce on my new FiiO K11 R2R in NOS mode. I would like to have your PEQ settings for my Hiby R4.
@@daveelgee2008 email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com. I'll send you the PEQ settings for Poweramp. Have wavelet as well if you prefer
I have my Deuce and would love to try your peq settings!
@@eshack123 please like, subscribe and email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
I'd love to try you PEQ settings. where can I get a hold of them? it seems like you've done a great job really balancing them out. I find the treble just a little too recessed. good review. they're a great set, the bass is really well done.
@@mindsight1 send me an email at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Hi, liked your video and subscribed. I just purchased it today and waiting for it. In the meantime would you please share the PEQ setting for Fatfreq deuce, thanks.
@@PCMKR-xe2vx please email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I will send you the PEQ settings. This is a price email and not me trying to get email addresses for any other purpose.
Thanks
Can't wait to get mine! Still showing unfulfilled unfortunately.
Ya i also ordered like 10 days ago still not shipped
Received mine, a few days ago and its absolutely worth the wait! You could try message them. Ben from Fatfreq is pretty responsive!
Hello great review extensively watched all parts
And was wondering
Do you have a list or of iems where you ranked them or spider graphed them ?
@@Oun104 interesting you asked. I'm working on it. I have so many that I've measured and did written reviews on. Need to get them all on to the same sheet of music so to speak.
@@Ducbloke yeah that be great specially the part where if you eq them what could they possible acheive or not
Would be a work but would be really interesting
@@Oun104 the hard part is the listening to 40 sounds with and without to gat the scores that detailed. I have the historical data from the first 30.songs I'm using for previous IEMs. I'm going to post a side by side of the Simgot EA500LM and Sivga Que next. Single DD sets under $100
@@Ducbloke yeah that be good
But yes 40 sounds hectic
Why dont you pick 2 or 4 songs which could have every thing 1 for the bass and mid bass 1 for mids 1 for treble for for accuracy imaging and sepration sort of
@@Oun104 the larger the sample, the more accurate it will be for more ears
I would love to have the PEQ settings if you don't mind.
Thanks
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I really can’t wait for mine to arrive, how do you use the peq? Sorry I’m newbie 😅
We all start somewhere. I have another video that explains how to load the PEQ settings into Poweramp. You can also use a program called Wavelet. If you're using an apple device, sorry to say you're out of luck. Here's the link to the tutorial. ua-cam.com/video/1Tb3u0FXh90/v-deo.html
Provided you liked and subscribed, here's my email address and I'll send you the PEQ settings
DucBloke916@gmail.com
Happy listening
I had thought about how EQ would change the Deuce. I would like to get the PDQ settings to try, Thanks.
Please subscribe, if you haven't already and email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com. I'll email you over the settings.
I make my own PEQ settings for Estrella. Can't wait to get my Deuce, this company went dead silent on me and my order is still stuck in Singapore hub
Same. No shipping info😫
@@professor55 Oh, I just noticed that I received a response this morning. It appears they are currently handling customs issues, which is causing the delay. It took them 3 days to reply, which suggests there might be some bottlenecks in their supply chain. My order is alive!! 😎🤘
@@brownwallet942 I ordered on July 27th. Hope we both get them soon!!
@@professor55 major update bro, my package will arrive Tuesday next week! 🥴🔥
@@brownwallet942 I received mine a few days ago. Love every bit of it. I had a hard time make a decision on Estrella vs Deuce. Went ahead with Deuce. Would love your review comparing the two !
Is PEQ is a feature that is in a Hiby player ?
@@David-sv2mr I'm getting the Hiby R8ii in for review this week. I will let you know what the native player does and doesn't do. You can always run Poweramp
Any hope of getting the peq. Pairing mine with the ka17 on desktop mode till my dc-elite arrives 😊
email me at ducbloke916@gmail.com and I'll send it to you
Please send me the peq settings. Landed here after the hbb recommendations. Cheers.
@@JamesNeilson Hi James,
Email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I'll send them to you. Thanks for subscribing
@@Ducbloke done that. Cheers
When you say "total" do you mean TOTL or total?
@@EricJorgensen1 I meant TOTL
How do I get to have your special EQ ? What program do you do it with and how ?
@@David-sv2mr email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com.
There's another video I did on UA-cam for an app called Poweramp.
Nice, can you check qoa adonis new?
@@jakubaugustyn9817 if I have a chance to try it, sure
hello, what is the eq? (parameters)
@@hernanaqp25 Hi, please subscribe (if you haven't already). Email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I will send you the files.
Cheers!
hows the bass quality compare to something like the moondrop dusk (if youve heard it)? is it as tight/detailed?
I think this is better than Dusk. Dusk is only good because of the DSP cable having EQ applied and using a USB-C DSP connector that does the DAC function isn't ideal if you have better equipment
@@Ducbloke im considering ordering dusk and eqing a bass shelf myself without the usb-c, do you think its rumble would be better than the deuce then?
@@camerondupuisbissonnette2937 nope, I think Deuce will be better. I've heard Dusk without the USBC dongle and Deuce beats it hands down. Just overlayed both in Squiglink and I can tell you there's a 9dB difference between them, out of the box. Perspective, 3dB doubles the Bass, so doubled 3 x means 6 x more Sub-Bass in the Deuce and it can take it!
Great job. Do you know how many Ω is this iem? I cannot find it in the specs.
I don't know the answer to that either. It's power hungry
Do dongle DAC can drive well?@@Ducbloke
@@junaidsultan1138 I doubt it. I have a couple will try it out.
@@Ducbloke please try and let me know 👍. I'm planning to purchase it. I have ifi go link dongle DAC
@junaidsultan1138 just checked the specs. My ifi Go Pods put out 120mW at 32 ohms and can drive this set, but without much headroom. The Go Link is 70mW at 32 ohms. So it will work but I wouldn't recommend it at the volumes I like
Do you have moondrop Miad01, if please upload peq to their database of peq
I can email you the settings. All I ask is you like and subscribe to the channel, plus give comments here on your opinion with the settings. Just email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com
Can you send me your PEQ settings?
@@flashjor98 email me at DucBloke916@gmail.com and I'll send the. To you. Please subscribe if you haven't already
So you’re saying it’s close to the GM with EQ?
@@ElNINETEENTH no, GM is in another league entirely. The Deuce is the best I’ve heard at under $300. It’s better than a lot of $800 sets I’ve heard, with EQ applied.
is this the most "fun" sounding iem ever ?
Really depends on your definition of Fun. Most people use Fun to describe a tuning that isn't neutral. Has a lot of bass and Treble. I found this very neutral, but not boring or safe if you will. It has good slam and bass feel due to the dedicated DD for the low end.
generally most reviewers will mention hifiman susvara
imo ie900 is the most impressive
Makes no sense for people to copy the eq. 1 depends on the eq of rhe dap. Unless it's a sone that has the best eq. 2nd is that the uppers mids and treble for up 2db for each 10db the volume goes up because of the high frequency does not required air. The best is to tune them with filters. Inside the nozzle sponge density or mesh outside grill for the perfect tuning according to the volume. So when inhear peolle copying eq. Makes me laugh. And yes. Mib bass needs to be there if the volume goes up ton85db and above. Otherwise wounds to thin.
I can give you several examples that put this into perspective. When musicians are in the recording studio, the monitor speakers play back the recording session. The sound engineer mixes this with EQ electronically, not physically with filters. When you have a home stereo with speakers you usually have at least a Bass and Treble dial, if not a mids or even a full EQ, to tune it in electronically, you don't use physical filters. What we're doing here is no different. It's elevating and reducing specific frequencies and ranges.
PEQ is also more powerful that regular EQ. The Q value allows for width. So you get any given frequency, gain value and then width. The higher the Q value the narrower the frequency spread. So a Q value of 0.50 has a broad range impact, where as a Q value of 2 is very specific to a small range, concentrated if you will.
The trick is finding the right settings. Most folks are used to seeing EQ settings for Rock or Pop etc. that look like a wave. This is very generic. The PEQ settings I create are used on a broad range of sources. I use the FiiO K19 desktop DAC, ifi Go Pods, iBasso DX320MAX Ti, DX240 and FiiO M17 DAPs. I can tell you that the IEM's sound a bit different depending on the source and the PEQ values, as a constant, will also sound slightly different depending on the source.
Where things get very interesting is when I use Mango Player on the DX320MAX Ti Class A DAP. This is the cleanest reproduction of the lossless flac files. The PEQ settings in Mango are difficult. Only 6 bands, so I have to work within those constraints to compress what I've learned in Poweramp and K19 DSP. But I can tell you I've had EXCELLENT results and feedback on the settings I've come up with.
Mark DeVitre from the Watercooler has sent me about 8 or 9 TOTL IEM sets to do my tuning on them. He's been super happy with the results, as it breaths new life into these sets. I have a set of Clear Tune Monitor Da Vinci X Universals he sent me yesterday next to me now. cleartunemonitors.com/products/da-vinci-x-universal ... A $1200 set and I'll post a video on these shortly after I finish PEQ tuning them.
Perhaps give it a try. You have nothing to lose, as it's entirely a reversible decision.
@Ducbloke it makes sense if you have the peq eq and dac. But for a dap, it's impossible that solution. I agree with what you said. But was mention dap player and not dac, so I was thinking m how can we transport that perfect eq to the dap. Unless we have a sony dap or the other dap that I forgot the name that has peq eq. And I know what you saying and what's a peq eq. I am a musician that has 80 iem and needs to retune all of them with filters inside and out just because I like the drivers.lol wish that daps had great eq in this days
@ anything I can do to help. LMK
@@Ducbloke I wish I could. Or you. It's ok
@@paulosilva8200 its always all theories but after i put my phone i see bad things again and again