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NH1 - Oluv's neutral headphone - 1st impressions (Patreon)

Published:
2024-11-09 12:38:17
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2024-11-09 12:39:57
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2026-09
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Unfortunately my inear microphones started to cause problems recently with one side becoming softer, which I have to compensate for now. I had also noticed some frequency response shift and although I managed to fix this quickly by readjusting my compensation, I will need to get new pairs as soon as possible.

I had to record this video with a lower gain than usual in order to avoid too much clipping when I move the headphohnes around on my head, this usually causes problems due to too much infra noise being caputred but also results in a higher hiss. Simply turn up volume a bit higher than usual to hear my voice with a normal loudness.

I also had problems fitting the headphones due to my camera mount on my head, therefore I caputred some slight imbalance, but I still think the overall sound should be pretty representative.

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Hartyewh

Nice, would love to try these. I have about 50 headphones including a few BT ones like Bathys, Edifiet S3 and some consumer ones to compare to. I measure and review stuff though with a kid I haven't been very active on the output/content side, but actively building a library for a website that will exist one day. Would these have some preset options or included methods for personalization or even presets to be used externally?

OP1M.DR3M

Excited for these, Oluv! How's the max volume on these? I often find bluetooth headphones don't get loud enough for me. My Sony WH1000-XM3 were too quiet. My Final UX3000 are just about loud enough.. My Earfun Free Pro 2 are plenty loud.

oluvsgadgets

These will have just the 3 presets shown in this video. One basically flat, the other one with some bass similar to what speakers get when inside a room and a more bassy boombox setting which is still on the leaner side though compared to some other headphones. But boombox is not boomy it has most enhancement below 60hz and not so much above. As there is no app (I couldn’t even take the development costs for this) there is no other way to customise the sound. One option could be to let the 3.5mm input play just the raw sound passively (like in the current state) and I could provide my original EQ settings which people could try adjusting. This all has to be discussed, what people want.

oluvsgadgets

In the current state the volume curve is not good and I need to adjust this. The first 2 steps are silent and later it increased too quickly. I personally don’t find them too soft but they are not extremely loud, not sure if there is still some headroom though as so far I didn’t have enough time to deal with all the details just concentrated on the best sound I could achieve. But that’s definitely something I want to have a further look in future to optimise the volume curve and maximum loudness.

oluvsgadgets

What about those? I have tested the first version some time back and it sounded worse than the Q30

Termite bass

That is interesting. I am curious to try these personally. I would be interested in the week-trial you are proposing.

Prasanna Mestha

I'd love to give this a try, count me in for pre-order :)

Matthias Koehler

I own the B&O H9i in the same colorway your NH1 has. Personally I love it but I can understand that you have to go the path that look most promissing. The decision to enlarge the earcaps is a good one! The B&O caps, for me, are to small and not comfortable on a long run.

KlarkKentThe3rd

Sadly, I already found my next target: the secret revision of HD560s (Sennheiser tamed the infamous peak a little). Closed headphones I do not like. Your headphone is better than the 500$ one. Phone boobz.

Calzone

What level of material quality can we expect? Will the surfaces and joints work for 6+ years. Considering the price of 250 this would be my expectation.

pokketa

I would be honest with you, Oluv, the headphone and earbuds are too difficult to have a one to match everyone's HRTF, the fail of Uboom X is unimaginable... I like it so much, I use it's studio mode as reference to tune my HD 600 and FreePro 2 and it turn out very different to your EQ, that I don't think I could get a better result from the NH1. I could provide my HD 600 and Free Pro 2 EQ if you are interested to knows the differences of our HRTF.

Richard

The other reviews I’ve seen of the Dyson haven’t been good so it would be more useful if you compared your NH1 to better headphones, even non-Bluetooth ones like Sennheiser HD58x and 560s. (Although you prefer the 58x a lot of people like the 560s, a comparison to these and others would help get an idea of the sound you’ve tuned before purchase). Just a thought, a lot of people will expect ANC from Bluetooth headphones if they cost a reasonable amount.

Stanislav Baranec

Sorry, Olaf, but I don’t remember it like that. I recall you were liking the sound of Airpods Max quite much, and were wanting to keep them if not the high price tag. Nevermind. In my opinion (as I own them both for a few years already) the Q30’s are worth every cent, but don’t come close enough to the clarity of the Airpods Max drivers even after heavy sound response equalization.

Termite bass

I thought this is what I also remembered which is why I asked but I guess the sentiment has changed. Either way these seem to have an amazing sound signature like the uboom. I would want these for sure. Oluv needs to find a company that can let him be a partner. I would buy all the stuff.

DominikReviews

He still was saying that apple's are sounding worse than Q30, he was liking them, as the Q30 but they still sounded worse.

Termite bass

That makes sense. That video was long ago.

oluvsgadgets

It seems on a similar level as B&O headphones

oluvsgadgets

The HD560S sounds surprisingly similar just lacking overall refinement. But those who like the HD560S, this will sound similar just better and it will have 2 additional profiles for those preferring more bass. I will do some sound demos of course, but right now with my microphones causing issues it doesn’t make sense to invest too much time into this, as I would like to refine my compensation first before doing such tests.

oluvsgadgets

Yeah please send me a message I would definitely like to try out your settings, although I haven’t finished mine for the HD600

S. Ayar

WTF these NH1 recordings sound amazingly clean and natural listening from my Elac Connex speakers. Dyson sound muddy and narrow as I expected from mainstream flagshit. You're on to something I hope you never give up. Definitely going to buy them as soon as you release! But since bluetooth headphones mostly for using outside, I hope they will have ANC because ANC is important for sound quality when used in noisy city commuting with bus or train.

MartinKo

Hi Oluv, Do you know which Codecs the Headphone supports? (AAC, SBC, AptX, LC3 etc.)

Marcus Rother

I think he once mentioned, that they don't have ANC. But for this you can still use soundcore life q30. And for home the NH1. But to be honest. I would also have wished very strongly that they will have ANC.

Sturmflut

that's a pity, they should have ANC for travel. at home i use headphones only occasional.

Dennis Schmitz

With USB-c can we use this as a low-latency monitoring headphone or rather use a proper headphone amp? btw. speaking about tuning, tuned my Sony XM5 to sound really close to the Free Pro 2. :D

ToneDeafLoser

I hear the ontracs sound horrible compared to the Dyson zone.

ToneDeafLoser

hope he returned the entracs for $500. its like $250 new on amazon. Dyson zones can be had for $100 and even cheaper used.