How to restore the original EQ settings to Drop Pandas after the SoundID firmware update
So I bought myself a set of these fancy Drop Panda headphones second hand off of eBay (for half the new price). They sounded fantastic but I thought "I'll just upgrade the firmware and try out this SoundID thing."
I update the firmware and I go through the "preferences" and the "hearing test" and I think "wow this is fancy, it should make my amazing headphones sound even more amazing."
Wrong.
After the update and setting up "SoundID" now my fancy headphones sound like hot garbage.
"Maybe I did it wrong" I thought. So I went through the "preferences" and the "hearing test" again, really carefully, to make sure I did everything as instructed.
Still sounds like garbage. Maybe my hearing preferences are just bad? I don't know. All I know is my headphones sounded great right out of the box, but after the SoundID was installed and the profile was uploaded my headphones sounded like trash.
So I spent several hours pushing buttons on the terrible app's terrible user interface and...
Apr 10, 2021
The current NuForce drop enough?
Music source is spotify premium on my macbook pro, I switch between the 58X and my powered/built-in-amp monitors, so I just want a solution that will allow for easy switching between the two and give the 58X enough juice.
Is it overkill to go with the current $300 cavalli drop? Would that work with powered monitors?