Decided to play around some more with the AutoEQ functionality in Poweramp, so I busted out one of my favorite sets of earphones, but also one of the weirdest and kind of worst in some ways, the Advanced GT3 "Superbass".
These guys are fun
- They're called "Superbass", but their tuning isn't particularly bassy by default. (They come with bass and treble emphasizing filters, but they're not good.) They actually are more mid-y. The bass quality is nice though and can be EQ'd up a lot of desired.
- The tuning is objectively bad, but they respond well to EQ, which is why they're a good candidate for AutoEQ. With appropriate adjustment, they sound really nice.
- They're quite small, relatively lightweight despite having steel shells, and are very comfortable. It's a single dynamic driver design.
- However, they require as much power to drive as a pair of Fostex T50s (i.e., more than the majority of full-size headphones).
- Despite seeming sturdy with the full steel shells, they're glued together, and on my first pair one day the glue just...failed. They replaced them under warranty, but that was funny.
I got them on a steep discount. They're long-since discontinued, not that I'd necessarily recommend them to...almost anyone.
So after using these again fairly regularly for a couple months, the glue on one of them failed again in much the same way as before. I decided to yolo it with some superglue, with, uh, mixed results.
The two halves aren’t keyed in anyway, it’s just friction plus glue. So during reassembly I aligned the orientation by comparing to the other IEM…but I forgot to mirror it until just after the glue has set, leaving me with two left IEMs. lol.
I checked to see if the glue was also falling apart on the “good” IEM, and it was. So I just flipped that one around as well and then connected the MMCX cable backwards. They’re cockeyed and messy on top of that, but these actually have a quite forgiving fit, unlike many IEMs, so it basically all worked out. Glad I can still use them as I like them a lot and there’s nothing really like them on the market anymore.