SpaceOne - sound sample (Patreon)

I am currently optimising the compensation for my binaural recordings towards my neutral target and was doing lots of tests and recordings to verify if the recorded sound represents the real headphones. I still need to invest a bit more time into it and set up my KH80 again to perform some additional measurements. 

Just as a demo I prepared a first sound sample of the Soundcore SpaceOne comparing it against the Q30. In the audio file can hear in the Q30 playing with my already known EQ-settings starting first, then switching over to the SpaceOne and so on. The SpaceOne is playing with its default settings, although I tried to create a quick EQ to tame the horrible sound a bit, it still doesn't really sound any decent. 

The compensation I used for this recording is derived from my HD58X EQ, thus listening to the sound sample with the HD58X and my latest EQ setting should give you a pretty realistic representation of both headphones. 

Below the Q30 with EQ in green, the SpaceOne with its default sound setting in blue: compensated for my neutral target:

You can notice that there is a strong peak close to 17khz which of course is bogus, but this is the effect of the HD58X having rather a dip in this area, thus using this as base for my compensation will make other headphones appear with a peak here. I didn't correct for this dip in my original EQ, as it shouldn't be that hearable anyhow, but I want to optimise my compensation in such a way to avoid these issues and need to back check with the speakers again to get a valid final compensation setting.