Thank you. I don’t know how accurate the Earphones Archives measurements are. But which earpads do you use, the leather or hybrid? FYI, the graphs suggest to me that the Verum 2 is probably a little too forward in both the midrange and in the mid-treble. And it could probably benefit from some EQ to smooth things out a bit.
That looks like sort of a strange concavity in the bass.
Primarily use the hybrid pads. Slightly less bass, and less deviation in the midrange. The leather pads are a good fit for rock, whilst the hybrid pads are more for jazz/symphonic music.
The tonal balance among the best overall I’ve come across without EQ.
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Fwiw, I compared the Verum 2 with hybrid pads to 32 other neutral-ish headphones in the Earphones Archive squiglink, and here are some of the results.
The first graph is a raw plot of just the 32 headphones which are shown in gray. And also a version of the DF+SP model that I use as a rough guide (the two dashed lines). To keep things simple and consistent, all of the curves are normalized to 633 Hz in the center of the frequency range on these graphs…
Next graph shows the same group of headphones and the Verum 2 as a dashed white line on top, so you can see some of the differences…
I used the Verum 2 as a compensation curve for the next graph, so you can see the difference in response between it and the other headphones a little more easily. The Verum 2 is represented by the flat dashed white line here…
The next graph also uses the Verum 2 for compensation. But the smoothing has been increased from 0 to 50 on all the curves. I don’t know how accurate or reliable the averaging tool is in the Earphones Archive squiglink, but I included the average of the 32 curves here as well. And it is represented by the green curve…
The next graph is the same as above, except the smoothing on all the curves has been increased to 100…
If you want to try approximating the average response of the 32 headphones on the Verum 2, you could potentially use the green curves above as EQ curves for this purpose.
The particular sampling of headphones I used for this example might not be exactly to your taste though. So that’s why the 32 headphones are included as well to show more of a range of possible adjustments.
The peak in the treble might also need to be dialed down a bit, because it could produce some sibilance.
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Looks like the Verum 2 measures quite well overall.
I suppose it depends somewhat on what you’re lookin for. The highlight of the Verum 2 seems to be its very low harmonic distortion. There are probably better measuring headphones out of the box in terms of FR though.
Based on the graphs above (which are just examples, and not definitive), the Verum 2 with hybrid pads is a couple dB below the average in the bass. And a couple dB above the average in the mids and probably in some spots in the low to mid treble. And it appears to lack some air/detail in the 10-12 kHz range.
Using a different grouping of headphones might yield a different result though. In this example, the sub-bass probably drops down a little too much on the average, because I included a number of open headphones that fall off more than the Verum 2 does there. Tightening up the headphone samples a bit, would probably provide some better extension there.
Do you think? It looks to me like this part of the curve is upside down. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a curve with a sag around 150 Hz. What does that sound like?
Bass should be leaner. But may also sound tighter due to more emphasis on overtones. I could probably calculate an EQ curve so you could try an approximation on one of your headphones.