Surprised by your comments on stream today.
Curious, do you stand the same even with Susvara on speaker amp?
Have you tried both on speaker amps to be able to sense a difference and quantify or describe?
Here is my stab at replicating slightly modified Oratory EAPO eq values for ADI-2 (reduced the bass shelf closer to older Harman target), which I have been enjoying. I don’t have the ADI-2 yet, it is arriving tomorrow. But figured I would try to prepare values to plug and play once it arrives, since there isn’t exisiting ADI-2 presets for the LCD-5. Basically a low shelf, high shelf, and 5 peak values in between. Used overlay of the original graph, got it to match up pretty well I think. Any input is appreciated!
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Oh wth where did you find that lol. I couldn’t find RME preset for LCD 5 from Oratory, only LCD 4. So I spent like 30min deriving one from his Apo values lol
Lol, I stumbled upon it on Reddit looking for his original settings and was like , “What the heck is this?”
Haha, I wonder why it hasn’t yet been added to the Wiki list of RME presets. Well I don’t want to toot my own horn, but I think my values were able to match the original EQ curve a little better 
, main difference being the upper treble range. I’ll prob try them both out and see
Here’s curve from the Oratory RME with the APO values overlay
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I’ve been wearing the LCD-5 pretty much all-day for past few weeks I noticed yesterday afternoon (and continuing today) that my right ear is now touching the driver. Has anyone else experienced this? It becomes painful after an hour or so unfortunately. I’m assuming it’s happening because the ear pads have softened over time.
Before I spend time trying to find a solution, I thought I’d ask and see if someone else has already experienced this and found a nice solution. 
I had this happen with the original clampy headband. No longer with the new, less clampy one.
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Pads are a normal wear item. They smush down as a function of band pressure (clamp) and the composition of the pads. I smushed my HD-600 pads several times, each failing purely as a function of wear time.
It’s a known fact that ears, like mushrooms, grow in the dark. Wearing an over-ear headphone with opaque housing and earpads creates a cave-like environment, moistened by sweat. You may also notice growths in the ear canal, both from the top, “audiotites” and from the bottom, “audiomites”.
Using transparent, inflatable earpads is one solution. Loudspeakers is another. I sincerely hope this helps.
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This. Was. Amazing. 
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Welp, unfortunately never really got to enjoy the RME preset much, the ADI-2 LCD screen gives off a very high pitched 15kHz+ squeal. A bit lower pitched and more noticeable at lower brightnesses. Other than having the screen go auto-off, there is no way to fix this. It seems to be a well documented problem for people with sensitive hearing (ADI-2 DAC audible squeak from device (Page 1) — ADI-2 Pro & ADI-2 DAC — RME User Forum, High pitched sound/coil whine when the screen is on. (Page 1) — ADI-2 Pro & ADI-2 DAC — RME User Forum) with no real fix… So away it goes and back to my Conductor 3XP and EAPO lol
So, what are the values for your eq for the rme adi-2. I can’t seem to see them in the curve/graph you posted. Wanted to give it a try
Currently really enjoying this EQ profile for the LCD-5.
So far this is the best I have got it for my taste.
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For those that have LCD-5 or CRBN headphones, and use Roon, the presets for these were added in the latest Roon 2.0 update.
They’re the same EQ profile as the individual convolution filter files Audeze provided a few months ago, but these are easier to use and you can use the “Customize” option to adjust how wet/dry they are.
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Thanks for much for sharing and welcome to the community! Audeze customer service is second to none.
Welcome to the Headphone community!
I have daily driven the LCD-5 for the past 9 months and it’s entered the pantheon of headphones you’ll have to bury me with (HD660s are also in that group). And I’m very happy to hear that Audeze is a standup company and were able to help you out. I hope your life is recovering as well as it can after Ian.
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