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.
Image description: a barrel shaped earphone. The front and back halves have come unglued. The driver is mounted to the front half and connected to the rear half by two wires. The rear half is mostly empty other than a bunch o’wire stuck in the back which leads up to the connector.