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I want to finally start my work on the Free Pro 2 and did some first measurements which I would like to share with you. These are compensated for my own target, thus the Free Pro which you can see in black will measure as a flat line. Blue is the factory tuning for the Free Pro 2 and red the raw unequalized tuning. You can see there are some issues, especially the overwhelming bass which will be hard to tame with just a single filter like I managed on the Free Pro. Treble alone will require most of  the filters, thus I am not sure I can really manage the same quality despite the better hardware overall.

I also wanted to ask if there is need for additional tunings higher than 7000Hz? I could still try to prepare tunings for 7200Hz and maybe even 7400Hz, but I am not sure if there is someone who would need those except maybe my son. I was actually surprised that so many seem to prefer the 7000Hz tuning. 

With the Free Pro 2 I hear the peak at exactly 6000Hz, thus it seems to be a bit lower than what I get from the Free Pro, you can also see that peak in the measurement (I always try to reproduce what I am actually hearing on my own, not doing some generalised measurements like everyone else does with some fictious resonance frequencies which no human being would get except maybe a newborn).

I could maybe post a first result for my own resonance frequency within some days, but it will take quite a bit longer to get all other tunings finshed. Fingers crossed I can manage something decent, because I really like the Free Pro 2 hardwarewise.

Update: Fooled around for about 1 hour now, used 8 filters so far and I think it already sounds great. AutoEQ towards my target sounded off and needed 18 filters, tried to start with that one trying to adjust it better but was still not satistied so I started completely from scratch without even trying to follow my target too strictly and wasting filters for some small details. I am surprised that this led to a much better result.  It's not perfect but already better than most other IEM I know. There seems to be some magic to get the tuning right, there must be some particular ratio between various frequencies that needs to be correct in order to fool the ear that the sound is good, while concentrating too much on absolute values will sound off. Unlike with the Free Pro the Free Pro 2 has slightly more bass in ANC mode, thus this mode will always sound slightly different and a bit more boomy, I will try to balance it out to have neutral bass with normal and ambient mode and more bass with ANC, which makes sense to me. 

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Julian Garcia

Im trying to find out what app or software to use so i can do the tune, the youtube video does not offer much help on what to actually tune it with and i cant find anything on earfun tuning softwares

smrw

Would be great if you could manage something decent out of the Pro 2, especially because it's still on sale for the next 5 days.

MerlinMei

I'd expect the peaks are created by both the hardware and the shape/depth of our ear canals. Therefore different hardware may have different peaks. I hear peaks at 5900-6000 on my earfun free pro 2, but there is a secondary peak at around 8500

oluvsgadgets

That’s the upper harmonics, the main peak is at half the wavelength of your ear canal.

ᗩᗰIGᗩ 500

Bei mir hat sich gerade ein anderes Problem aufgetan. Ich höre den peek am Free Pro bei ~6400. Habe eine weitere Einheit geordert, bei der wiederum der Peek deutlich weniger hörbar ist, dafür ein weiterer um die ~6850. Wie kann das sein, wenn das Gerät baugleich ist? Welchen Peek nehm ich nun als Referenz? 1000 Dank! (Hab gedacht, nun versteh ich das Konzept, dann wieder sowas... 🤪)

Michael

Wie kann ich denn Testen wo ich den Peek höre?

V

Would it be possible to make an auto-EQ for the Etymotic er2se to adjust it to the same natural target? You said there shouldn't be any ear canal resonance issues because of the deep insertion, so maybe it wouldn't take as much time.

oluvsgadgets

I could try but the Etymotic also can vary a lot depending on which tips you use how you put it inside. I often needed several attempts to get the sound right, sometimes due to overpressure inside the ear it didn’t sound right etc. I also don’t want to use the Etymotic at all anymore due to all the issues I got with my ears with it, so I couldn’t even verify if it’s correct or not. I also think that the couplers don’t measure it properly with the driver being so close to the microphone. I definitely perceive more bass from it than the measurements show

ᗩᗰIGᗩ 500

Den Parallelton/Pfeifton höre ich bei 5800, 6400 und 6800. Was sagt der denn dann aus?

Windowlicker

I think that tuning for 7200hz would be greatly appreciated, since the peak can shift quite a lot and some of us already hear it at around 7000hz. Again, thanks a lot for your work

OP1M.DR3M

Oluv, you're a damn champion

oluvsgadgets

The Harman IEM Target is completely wrong, no surprise it sounds off to you. I will need to do some tests first and see what I can come up with

Michael

Ok, danke, muss ich mir ansehen/anhören.

V

Ok thanks a lot

oluvsgadgets

Leise hören! Vielleicht hörst du zu laut und dein Gehör überschlägt, es sollte keine Nebentöne geben.

Eliot Jacobsen

My EFP2 arrived today. You’re right, super boomy but they eq well so your tuning will be welcome.

D. Oeltermann

Just ordered the Free Pro 2 directly on the officral website from Earfun. 60 Dollars including shipping to Germany.That is okay… I will give those InEars a try. In the past I was not happy with any InEars. If they fit in my ears they probably will stay. Thanks Oluv for working on these headphones, trying to find a suitable EQ setting.

TC

Thanks for the update how abt the ANC and call quality ?

T Adrian

the anc is so good,,the call quality is the same at earfun free pro .

TC

Ok thanks !

MartinKo

Hi Oluv, a tuning for 7200-7300 Hz would be nice. I think my resonance is somewhere there. I tested with EarFun Free Pro OE (original, but the small filters have fallen out) BR Martin

oluvsgadgets

I am planning the following values, this is more or less 1mm length difference between each step: 8150 7800 7450 7125 6800 6575 6325 6100 (already finished) 5900 5700 5500 5350 I am covering more than 1cm like that.

Mika

Thanks for the measurements, Oluv! Did you run those through AutoEQ to recover the factory tuning, by any chance? If not, I could do it myself and post the results here... I know nobody likes the factory tuning but it's still good intel :) edit: I haven't tried AutoEQ yet, but here's what I've got so far from hand tuning 55 Hz Gain 5.2 dB Q 0.8 200 Hz Gain -6.3 dB Q 0.44 1840 Hz Gain -6.2 dB Q 1.0 3440 Hz Gain 14.8 dB Q 0.63 6000 Hz Gain -2.3 dB Q 1.6 14860 Hz Gain 5.6 dB Q 0.65