Melomania P100SE EQ
The P100SE. I would put this as one of the most capable headphones if not the most capable, hardware wise, I have ever owned but at the same time the most difficult to listen to.
It’s the punishing sub-bass on every pre-defined eq preset, even on Blues, that makes listening to this on certain bass heavy songs like the song Bullshit by Matroda, KLP, eardrum torture and a headache waiting to happen…
So I have been spending time here and there trying to find some Melomania App EQ settings that fix this and I believe I may have found it.
To get an idea of how each eq slider affects the frequency response, I used the https://www.pragmaticaudio.com/headphones/ headphone measurements and the initial idea was to lower the sub-bass to minimum. Looking at the Min SubBass EQ measurement, setting the first slider to minimum achieves this. Unfortunately, now some
instruments and cymbals felt more recessed than before. Looking at the Max UpMid EQ measurements, I raised the fifth slider to max and this did seem to fix the recessed mids issue but now I felt cymbals were too harsh sounding. Looking at the Min UpTreble EQ, it seems setting the seventh and last melomania app eq slider to minimum does reduce the presence region significantly and to my ears, this does fix the harshness’s issue.
So there it, my sub-bass woes with this headphone and the eq that works best for me, so far, after owning it for months and struggling with it, is first slider to minimum, fifth to maximum and seventh to minimum. Please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts and preferred eq settings or eq methods for this headphone. Thanks.