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Saturday, February 6, 2016

Musical Fidelity MF-100 for Vacheron Constantin (on-ear headphones)

Measurement


Musical Fidelity MF-100 for Vacheron Constantin



• Collaborated with the watch maker 'Vacheron Constantin' to produce a limited edition of MF-100
• Leather earpad and velour earpad sets included

Musical Fidelity MF-100 for Vacheron Constantin Measurement


[1. Frequency Response ]
Check my Measurement Procedures first.

Uncompensated (Leather pads) (5 plots averaged)



Diffuse Field Target Compensated (Leather pads)



Olive Welti Target Compensated (Leather pads)



CSD - Olive Welti Target Compensated



[2. Square Wave ]

300 Hz


30 Hz



[3. Minimum Phase ]



[4. Harmonic Distortions ]

94 dB SPL @ 500Hz



[5. Impedance ]

DC Ohm



Black: Impedance Magnitude
Green: Electrical Phase



[6. Effect of the earpads ]
Uncompensated

Black: Leather Pad
Orange: Velour Pad



[7. Equalizer ]
It is impossible for me to use MF-100 Vacheron Constantin headphones without equalizer, due to harsh and peaky treble. Unless you want a serious ear fatigue, don't torture yourself by using this painful headphones!

Diffuse Field Target Compensated

EasyQ Equalizer (DSP for foobar2000)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Frequency | Decibel |  Bandwidth
49Hz  | -10dB  | BW3.1
1102Hz | -9.7dB |  BW1.4
1746Hz  | +2.4dB |  BW1.9
3970Hz |  -8dB  | BW1.9
7292Hz | -14dB  | BW1.9
16048Hz | +1.9dB |  BW1.9
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

• If you want to use this equalizer settings in Capriccio(available at google play store / apple app store), multiply bandwidth values by 12.







6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the Capriccio eq recommendation. Looks like an excellent app.

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    1. Although UI is somewhat untidy, it's my favorite parametric EQ app

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  2. I never heard from that watch maker...and now I know why...

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    1. Well..Vacherone Constantine is world's most famous luxury watch maker. The company along with Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet, is sometimes claimed to be one of the "holy trinity" of Swiss watchmakers.

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  3. Can you purchase covers for the headphones or is it new headphones please

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